World's most evil bosses

scary_tractors

I'm beginning to think mine is spawn of Satan. So please, some encouragement in the form of your boss-related horror stories, everyone! I will respond with the worst of mine...

SarahSassy

My last boss was so stupid and scatty she couldnt remember what she agreed to a week before.....

ChewChew

my last boss drove me out of the job I loved. He pushed me to the point that I handed in my notice. I wont go too deep into why, but I was out of work due to a death in the family and he rang me just after the funeral to tell me I had to go back to work. What a dick. we ended up very obviously hating each other to the point we passed messages to each other via the team leader.

Marz66

16.30 Thursday:
Me: Would you like me to do x now and have it ready for tomorrow?
Boss: No, no, there's no need, don't want you staying late to do it, i'll have a look at it myself

16.30 Friday:
Boss: Have you done x yet??
Me: *Explodes*

Jules

Sorry to say i have a great boss. Laid back, funny, takes us out for dinner, pays for the lot. Bought me and ipod with my name engraved last year and also gave me a lovely bonus last christmas. But i work very hard, never stop orking literally. Even when im at home i get phone calls from work and about work! But all in all my boss is one of the much better ones!

Loopy

My boss is great, very laid back and leaves you to it. Sounds great yeh, there is one problem, he is the meanest man in Ireland. Eg. he peals stamps off incoming post and re-uses them. He 'robs' other peoples lunches from the canteen!!?? Multi millionaire this guy..

scary_tractors

... Wow there's a couple of good ones there. Mine tried to make me move an operation I've been waiting years for so she could go to a concert.


... Beat that!

Ivicia

scary_tractors wrote: »

... Wow there's a couple of good ones there. Mine tried to make me move an operation I've been waiting years for so she could go to a concert.


... Beat that!

Don't think anyone could beat that but i am in constant fear of the knife my boss wants to stick into my back.:D

scary_tractors

Ivicia wrote: »

Don't think anyone could beat that but i am in constant fear of the knife my boss wants to stick into my back.:D

I hear ya. I'm really beginning to think promoting ppl too young is dangerous - makes them so insecure that every employee is hated in case they're better at the job.

Ivicia

Ivicia wrote: »

Don't think anyone could beat that but i am in constant fear of the knife my boss wants to stick into my back.:D

My ex boss refused to give one of my workmates a force majore, when he was sent for as his sister lay dying.
He didn't even get to go to the funeral.

SarahSassy

Moonbaby wrote: »

My ex boss refused to give one of my workmates a force majore, when he was sent for as his sister lay dying.
He didn't even get to go to the funeral.

Oh my God!!!! Thats the worst I have ever heard... Thats pure evil. I would have gone anyway... ''Boo'' to the boss.

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

scary_tractors

Moonbaby wrote: »

My ex boss refused to give one of my workmates a force majore, when he was sent for as his sister lay dying.
He didn't even get to go to the funeral.

Ok, he wins! That's horrific... I hope he told them where to shove the job. No job is worth that.

scary_tractors

scary_tractors wrote: »

Ok, he wins! That's horrific... I hope he told them where to shove the job. No job is worth that.

He was a non eu national, and trying to be made permanent in the job as he would lose it otherwise under contract law. So no.

themadchef

I have the best boss in the world.

I see him once a year for review. Then he lets me get on with my job. Couldn't ask for better!

Sorry op!

The Sweeper

I quit a lot of jobs because of very bad management. I can't bear managers who believe that you're lucky to have a job, or you should love the company as much as they do, but who will step out of confrontations between their staff, bully junior staff, micro manage senior staff and then indulge in arse-covering like you wouldn't believe when something goes wrong.

So I pretty much work for myself, (Though I have recently taken a part-time local job since moving to rural Victoria in Oz, because otherwise I'd see no other human being from one end of the week to the other).

MizzLolly

scary_tractors wrote: »

... Wow there's a couple of good ones there. Mine tried to make me move an operation I've been waiting years for so she could go to a concert.


... Beat that!

I rang mine last week to tell her I was being brought into A+E and was not able to work. She replied; "What?! I really don't need this right now"! Then proceeded to bitch at me for having the nerve to need hospital care!!

princess-lala

I used to work for a man, oh god he was unreal to get on with, would have everyone in tears:(
He made me pay to qualify, (we used to go to london but he normally paid for it) so I paid the €3500 and the day i came beck he sacked me:(:(


now am working for a lovely woman:) so sound and easy-going:)

scary_tractors

MizzLolly wrote: »

I rang mine last week to tell her I was being brought into A+E and was not able to work. She replied; "What?! I really don't need this right now"! Then proceeded to bitch at me for having the nerve to need hospital care!!

Hmmm.. I think yours and mine may be the same person!!!

MsFifers

OK - so this story isn't as bad as not being allowed to go to hospital but I had one former boss who gave me a project to plan and manage which, when it would be rolled out, would mean more work for everyone else in the organisation.

When I had all the work done, he suggested we organise a meeting to explain it to everyone. I made the presentation to the rest of the staff (along the lines of "I know this will be more work in the short term, but the long term benefits for everyone will be brilliant blah, blah, blah..") - the boss stands up in front of everyone and starts saying it was all a crap idea, wouldn't work, would lead to chaos etc etc. The rest of them are all looking at him saying "Oh so you think its a bad idea. Sure, we wont' do it so".

I sat there, after my 6 months of work on it, and silently drafted my resignation letter.

Lauragoesmad

The worst boss I ever had was not for what he said or did, it was for how he smelt!! He was the smelliest man EVER!!! And when he would try and show you something on the computer he would put his stinky armpit right at your head!! It came to a head one day when I actually couldn't help wretching while he was at my desk!! He must have never washed his clothes or himself! One of the other girls in the office used to describe his smell as "wicked!"

Balmed Out

My subordiantes boss is fantastic.

SW81

Some of your stories are horrific, are these people not human? :eek:

John Mason

Sorry......i decided to take my rant down, you never know who is who in this place

I think your exactly right Irishbird.

Clare Bear

:eek: Some of your bosses need a good beating. You should never have to take crap like that from anyone, doesn't matter who they are.

all the stars

scary_tractors wrote: »

... Wow there's a couple of good ones there. Mine tried to make me move an operation I've been waiting years for so she could go to a concert.


... Beat that!

ha ha! Mine did the same!! :eek: And then didn't pay me for the time i was in hosputal ( me who had never used a sick day or been late) and then went as far to say she had done me a favour allowing me to have invasive & important surgery!! Pure gem that one -:D

Oryx

I used to work for a man who was a saint. Never ceased to thank me for working well, and believed that when it came to fcuk ups, to forgive was divine.

Now I work for my husband. Sigh.



(although after reading some of the stuff posted here, I feel that things are not so bad after all.)

My bosses are great , I have had a few right nightmares to work for
I prefer to work for men as I've had awful trouble with women bosses

RxQueen

must say some of the stories are bad! im glad to say i like my boss, dont think i could stick it in a job where i didnt.

NewBalance

on a xmas do my old boss handcuffed himself to one of the more attractive young girls on our team and then during the night refused to remove the cuffs and went into the toilets with her - then tried to force himself on her... lovely married man with a young daughter... he was short and slightly ratty looking fella - watch out for short men with power

Sugar Drunk

applied for an internal job a few years back. the boss chatted with me about the interview what I was asked, what I said, how they reacted etc etc. then afterwards went and applied himself and got the job after he had leeched all the info from me. what was worse he did not have the guts to go for it until he knew (from asking me!) there were only 3 subordinates and no peers in the running. spineless-

kittensoft1984

my last boss was unreal.

He used to give me loads and loads of stuff to do with very little time to do it!!

then he would complain when i hadnt got something done and tell me priortise them! without telling me what he wanted done first! He would literally hand me 4 A4 sheets of paper with stuff to do!

he was impossible! hence why i left!

Thankfully now i have the best boss in the world!

LouOB

scary_tractors wrote: »

I'm beginning to think mine is spawn of Satan. So please, some encouragement in the form of your boss-related horror stories, everyone! I will respond with the worst of mine...

does he/she wear prada?

She Devil

Well im leaving my boss this week for this reason :
Last year i had a miscarriage and was out of work for a week .. i came back to work and got on with things, didnt let it affect my work but it affected my relationship with my boss, i couldnt understand why but he suddenly got cold towards me!! One day he took me aside and said "You got yourself into a bit of trouble a few weeks ago, you have learned your lesson now so be careful"
One day he commented to me that i had changed since i started going out with my boyfriend (i had been seeing my boyfr for bout a year before i told anyone) and i commented that maybe it was him that had changed, jealousy is a wicked thing!
Anyway .. unfortunately i suffered another miscarriage towards the end of the year, my mom rang in for me because i couldn't talk for fear of crying ... she explained to him i had been in hosp and they suggested that i take a few days off that i hadnt lost my baby and if i took it easy i might still hang on to it. My boss rang that night and said if i didnt go in the next day that my job wouldnt be there ...
I went in and sat at my desk .. crying in pain and humilliated !!!!
I was admitted to hosp that night and i will never ever ever forgive my boss for what he did to me!! We havent spoken much since, when i handed in my notice last week he said "Ah what have i done now?"

Please put my boss in the top 5 worst bosses EVERRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!

WindSock

How people can prioritise their jobs over their lives is beyond me.

She Devil

WindSock wrote: »

How people can prioritise their jobs over their lives is beyond me.

I didn't choose my job over my baby, but i did realise if things had gone well with my pregnancy i'd be no good trying to tackle a mortgage on the dole and no maternity leave!

John Mason

She Devil wrote: »

I didn't choose my job over my baby, but i did realise if things had gone well with my pregnancy i'd be no good trying to tackle a mortgage on the dole and no maternity leave!

of course you did. Your boss cannot make you go to work if you have a sick note and are ill. If he had sacked you would have taken him to the labour and won succesfully.

If you have been advised by a doctor to stay away from work, your boss is legally obliged to make sure you do not enter the premises for work.

One of my bosses tried that on me when i fractured my wrist, i told him to get real that i was medically certified for week and would be back and i would see him in court if i hadnt a job to get back too and he was a solicitor

kmick

Moonbaby wrote: »

He was a non eu national, and trying to be made permanent in the job as he would lose it otherwise under contract law. So no.

Unfortunately non-eu nationals have brought this problem on themselves - the family member dying is used a lot especially to justify a weeks unpaid leave. Usually when you request a death cert it is 'not available'. Certain nationalities are actually banned from being hired in certain institutions in Ireland for all sorts of dirty tricks like taking sick days off to mind each others children and sending in other family members to work contract shifts. The story is never one way Im afraid.

lee_arama

Are evil bosses exclusively women hiring?

I had a tool of a boss, at a bar where I worked some years back. The guy was all about giving great liberty to the regulars and locals which ultimately put more work on me and the other staff.

EG: Attempting to cordon off a section of the bar which wouldn't be needed that night and then he goes off on one about how the customers should be allowed to sit where they want. I told him that they'd wreck the entire bar if that was the case and not just where I wanted them to sit - meaning of course that I'd have to clean more at the end of the night.

That's only one of many tales I could spin, and probably the only one I can post for fear of his family coming after me (they were all tools too bar the youngest son).

Basically the guy was living in the distant past and couldn't understand how modern life worked. The bar manager was sick to death of him and told me that there was no talking to the ****er.

Ah what can ya do though? There's people out there who think that they've no responsibility towards their employees...

Susannahmia

She Devil wrote: »

I didn't choose my job over my baby, but i did realise if things had gone well with my pregnancy i'd be no good trying to tackle a mortgage on the dole and no maternity leave!

No offence but you didn't have to go back to work. You could have easily stayed at home and then sued his ass for false dismissal if he had fired you.

rosarosa

shedevil, that's the WORST thing I have ever heard happen to a female employee. Wish you all the best whatever you do from now (and with any future babies).