The worst manager you've ever had

Melisandre121 · 31-08-2015 11:48PM #1

I've had a few.

The worst was a polish manager I had when I was about 19 and was working in a video shop. He regularly refused to talk to me on shift (there'd only be two of us on, and I mean he would literally remain silent) and regularly exploded at me for no reason.

He also cried laughing at me when I told him I'd been attacked on holiday. When my coworker told him that he thought it was really inappropriate to laugh at me like that he responded by giving me extra work that evening. He's the reason I left in the end, absolute prick.

On that note... what's the worst manager you've ever had?

Sheep Lover · 31-08-2015 11:49PM

Task manager on Windows. Kept shutting sh1t down.

johnny osbourne · 31-08-2015 11:52PM

i was working for this bitch abroad in berlin there last year, anyway doesnt the dopey c unt send me into a room full with pesticicde to work for 2 days, big courtcase going on about it now, am going to get a load of money out of it, but have the glass powdeer in my lungs to prove it, ha ha ha ha ha ha

0byme75341jo28 · 31-08-2015 11:58PM

Brendan Rodgers.

knird evol · 01-09-2015 12:01AM

Aryanna Vast Hoof wrote: »

Brendan Rodgers.

Mario ?

Birneybau · 01-09-2015 12:09AM

Louis Van Gaal.

pappyodaniel · 01-09-2015 02:21AM

Aryanna Vast Hoof wrote: »

Brendan Rodgers.

You Rogered Brendan?

Overheal · 01-09-2015 02:24AM

Probably the manager that put his hand on my thigh, suggestively, more than once.

There was also the manager that put her hand on my thigh, and I had enough reasons to hate her before that.

cruais · 01-09-2015 02:40AM

johnny osbourne wrote: »

i was working for this bitch abroad in berlin there last year, anyway doesnt the dopey c unt send me into a room full with pesticicde to work for 2 days, big courtcase going on about it now, am going to get a load of money out of it, but have the glass powdeer in my lungs to prove it, ha ha ha ha ha ha

No offence but I wouldn't be calling her a dopey c unt, when you're plastering your case details on the internet without the judge ruling officially in your favour.

calanus · 01-09-2015 02:55AM

He's hardly plastering it all over the internet though is he?

Micky Dolenz · 01-09-2015 03:13AM

Overheal wrote: »

Probably the manager that put his hand on my thigh, suggestively, more than once.

There was also the manager that put her hand on my thigh, and I had enough reasons to hate her before that.

In fairness, you have really really good thighs.

Sunnyisland · 01-09-2015 03:20AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

In fairness, you have really really good thighs.

That's why I don't wear ties.

Micky Dolenz · 01-09-2015 03:28AM

realies wrote: »

That's why I don't wear ties.

Wha? I've seen you tied up. Good vid btw.

jaded_pause · 01-09-2015 03:53AM

I had a manager in a semi-posh clothes store who treated me and a couple other employees like plebs because we weren't up her arse like the rest of them "Oh god don't you look fabulous in that dress", and "Oh your hair is so cool and edgy." She was a completely shallow idiot going through a midlife crisis and often on the phone shouting to her friends / other store managers about this dude she met in the gym and how they'd gotten so close and she hadn't told her husband about it because it's not really cheating but oh isn't gym guy so nice and so fit. She was the most shallow, self centered, pathetic excuse of a human I've ever had the misfortune to be in the same room as.

Katgurl · 01-09-2015 08:17AM

Hard to avoid idiots in the 'profession' I worked in for a while so had my fair share of dopes with ironically oversized egos. The biggest moron was a manager I was assigned in Oz, I found out later they paid me significantly more than him (actuall he grabbed my contract one day then started yelling at me like it was my fault) but wanted to be seen to be promoting him in place of a pay rise. The excitement of being in charge of someone was too much for him so he sat opposite me day in day out critiquing my outfits, hair, weight, client phone calls... Fair enough to listen to phonecalls but his rapport building advice was shocking - he used to think making racist jokes was a great idea despitr having never seen most of his clients. He'd ask female clients out to dinner to thank them for business then wonder why they got annoyed when he suggested cooking for them in his place. Then he decided he would supervise every email I sent to a client and sat behind me dictating and insisting I randomly capitalise Approx every third Word in Sentences to 'set my emails apart'.

labin_86 · 01-09-2015 08:26AM

I've had a few terrible managers in my time. I used to work in fashion so comes with the territory maybe?
The worst was a total bully, he threw a lasagne at our intern, hangers at the assistant designer, told everyone one of the girls was off sick because she was getting an abortion, spread rumours about a few of us that we were all hooked on heroin (!), he used to be really verbally abusive saying that one of our managers must have been dropped on her head when she was a baby. He also had the runs once and made the intern clean up the toilet right after he went.

On top of this he would constantly criticise peoples looks and weight.
The list goes on.
I didn't stay there for very long.

Eugene Norman · 01-09-2015 08:32AM

cruais wrote: »

No offence but I wouldn't be calling her a dopey c unt, when you're plastering your case details on the internet without the judge ruling officially in your favour.

Probably he changed the names of all concerned.

kylith · 01-09-2015 08:35AM

All I can say about one woman is to paraphrase Tywin Lannister "Anyone who must constantly scream 'I'm the boss' loudly in public areas full of clients is no boss".

I occasionally hear of a case of constructive dismissal against her and I laugh and laugh. Absolute wagon.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 01-09-2015 10:05AM

I had two managers I hated.

One was an illiterate fool, she couldn't spell, she was a rich kid who just assumed everyone loved her because she had money. She was obsessed with her sister, which was quite weird, always talking about her sister and how cool her sister was and if her sister called for an appointment last minute, she would cancel an actual clients appointment.

We had many run ins, she knew I didn't like her and would often try humiliate me in front of the other girls. We had been very busy in the run up to Christmas and had been working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week in the two weeks before Christmas. I got very very sick on the second week, like a vomiting bug, but i still went to work that day. One or two of the other Girls rang in sick. The next day I was still quite sick but a little better, went to work, and after the first appointment I had there had been an emergency staff meeting called. Two more girls had called in sick and the girls out the day before hadn't come in that day either. She was bugging out. Had demanded the girls who called in sick attend this staff meeting. When everyone had arrived, she started spitting venom saying how nobody there was unreplaceable, that she was the only one that the company needed, anyone to call in sick before Christmas would be fired, etc. as punishment we were told the salon would be now open on Xmas eve, and that our one day off between then and Xmas eve would be taken off us. This was on Tuesday, my day off was Thursday, and I think Xmas eve was that Saturday.

She had taken my Thursday off me, had filled my column busy, maybe two of the other girls had their days taken off them too. Christmas Eve rolled around and all the polish girls had got it off as its a special day for them, the girls that lived far away got it off to go home (bear in mind I lived further away than one of those girls and I still had to come in) and the only other girl who had to come in was the girl who had called in the two days sick. Nobody else. There was no clients in so we had to clean all day.

We then broke for Christmas holidays and a few days before we were due back she text us all asking us if we could oblige her by coming in the day before we opened (salon was renovated over the holidays) to help clean the salon and get it ready for opening. I text her back and told her no I couldn't and when I went back to work she called me into the office, told me I had an attitude problem and that I was the only one who hadn't helped. I reminded her how I had worked about 12 days straight before Xmas and how I had been punished for something I hadn't even done and that I didn't react well to spiteful people and blah blah blah, we both got a lot off her chest, and we ended the chat on a positive note, I thought things had been cleared up. For a few days after she was up my ass, telling me how good at my job I was, how I was great, how her sister wanted to come to me because I did such a good job etc.

So imagine my surprise at the performance meeting, in front of all the other staff, she rated me 2/10 and rated the unqualified receptionist who occasionally did treatments higher than me. I knew this was utter scour but it was to make me feel bad in front of everyone else.

I was being paid monthly and the end of that month my wages didn't go into my account. I text her asking about it and she was like "I know nothing about it, sorry". Bitch was holding my wages back for reasons I have no idea.

I had decided right there to hand in my notice, well by notice I mean "you can go swivel, I'm not coming back."

The company actually went bust since then and if her Facebook is anything to go by, she's out of a job.

The other one was grand just a bit work shy. She wanted to remain 3 days a week despite taking over as manager, so she was so behind on everything and I was working 5 days so she expected me to do what she wasn't there to do.
So basically for 4 months I was doing her job and she was being paid for it. She was always late, we were always understaffed and she wouldn't do anything. She used her kids as excuses for everything and thought the world revolved around her because she had reproduced.

MonkeyTennis · 01-09-2015 10:06AM

The current one. Death by micromanagement

Andre 3000 · 01-09-2015 10:35AM

David Moyes. Hadn't a clue what he was doing.

Raging_Ninja · 01-09-2015 10:45AM

First one was when I was working in a bar. He was a cokehead and one night they were drinking after hours and one of the other barman made a remark. The assistant manager didn't like it, beckoned him over and then lunged at him, biting his mouth open from lip to chin before the others could pull him off the barman and take him to hospital.

The assistant manager up all the blood when he was alone, and tried to delete the cctv but was too much of an idiot to do more than turn off the computers. Still, he turned up to work the next day and was fired.

The second was less the individual and more the management culture in the place. Lots of managers who didn't want to make decisions, and instead would just hire other managers who dealt in those areas.

Last I heard there was 1 manager for every 2 staff and the place isnt doing too well.

RhubarbCrumble · 01-09-2015 11:10AM

I worked in Dunnes when I was younger, so it would take me quite a while to list all the sh**ty managers I had. I think I could name about two decent ones. One of them I'd still be friendly with today and a second, although I haven't seen him in a while was an absolute and utter gentleman and far too nice to be working there. He got treated just as badly as the staff, purely because he was a nice guy. To the best of my knowledge he's still with Dunnes and he's close to 50 at this stage.

Pac1Man · 01-09-2015 11:44AM

kylith wrote: »

"Anyone who must constantly scream 'I'm the boss' loudly in public areas full of clients is no boss".

Steve Staunton springs to mind.

"I'm the boss.
I'm the gaffer.
The book stops with me."

Jaysus.

washiskin · 01-09-2015 11:46AM

My absolute worst was a woman who came over from the UK to live with her partner, who was a manager in another dept. Had no clue she was going to be working in the company until she was introduced to me on a Monday as my co-worker who was to be trained up from scratch. Great, I thought, another woman on the floor with me as I was the only one not in Admin. Talk about a drama queen! Partner treated her like dirt and they constantly rowed, the deails of which I heard in minutiae every couple of days. I genuinely felt sorry for her and went out of my way to make her feel welcome, even spending free time showing her around, shopping etc.
About 6 week later the boss came down and informed me that she would now be my manager. Needless to say, after I had built up the dept I was a tad miffed and took it rather badly. To my shame, I did sulk for about a week (work didn't suffer, just didn't talk much) which resulted in her going to the boss and complaining. Cue me being taken to the bar across the road and warned in no uncertain terms that I was out the door if I even looked crooked at her. It's the closest I've ever come to telling someone to shove their job up their ass, but l went back and said I was sorry to her, assuring her I would toe the line.
And I did, in at 9 out the door at 5.30. No staying late as I made sure all my work was done, left her to deal with the Sales staff, the ordering of supplies, the packaging, the dealing with suppliers, the organisation of deadlines, co-ordinating delivery of the finished stuff, all the things a manager is supposed to do and all of which I had been doing before she arrived. I think she lasted 3 months.

Menas · 01-09-2015 11:49AM

We had this woman sent over from the states to manage us once.
On a Friday she would dress up in fancy dress and ring a hand bell as we arrived to work to welcome us.
It was her idea of motivating fun but I never wanted to kill someone as much!

kylith · 01-09-2015 11:54AM

Menas wrote: »

We had this woman sent over from the states to manage us once.
On a Friday she would dress up in fancy dress and ring a hand bell as we arrived to work to welcome us.
It was her idea of motivating fun but I never wanted to kill someone as much!

Americans are weird.

c_man · 01-09-2015 12:05PM

Had a part-time job in a hotel during college, for a while we had a bean counter put in charge... Lord. Within a month more than half the staff had left, I was too young to realise what a dose she actually was initially so it was a painful few months before I finally got my stuff together and left.

The place went out of business after a year or so. During the boom like. Still, I'm sure her abrasiveness and penny pinching on everything (I remember a girl getting screamed at for putting three, not two, butter sachets with some toast) had no bearing on that...

Dyr · 01-09-2015 12:07PM

Menas wrote: »

We had this woman sent over from the states to manage us once.
On a Friday she would dress up in fancy dress and ring a hand bell as we arrived to work to welcome us.
It was her idea of motivating fun but I never wanted to kill someone as much!

Jaysus, in my job by the second friday she would had to ring the bell by shaking her arse like a wet dog. F**k that for a game of soldiers

columf · 01-09-2015 12:18PM

worked in a certain company where the saying "too many chiefs not enough Indians" was an understatement the first manager I had in there was decent due to the lack of technical staff everyone worked late off their own backs to keep things under control manager no1 was cool he would get in takeaways or if you needed to disappear during the day there was never an issue or every once in a while send you off to pick up parts and tell you to double your Mileage. Well manager no1 left and they then decided to put a salesman as manager of a technical department the sort of cnut that would use words like customer experience needless to say the food and other perks disappeared he expected us to carry on with the late evenings. He once questioned me as I had to leave on time one evening I told him to piss off it was business not his.
I caught him once bad mouthing the tech team to the other managers to cover up his own ineptitude. I let the rest of the team know and we worked to rule for 2 weeks before he came back all nice as pie would we be able to work late and things were going down hill all that ****e. I hated that muppet I left shortly afterwards.

The Backwards Man · 01-09-2015 12:22PM

Never really had a bad boss, usually get the vibe fairly sharpish and I'm out the door quicker then you could say fcuk this for a lark. Had a few hard bosses alright, but the truth is that if most people think you're a great boss, the reality is you're probably a crap manager.

Worst I ever had was one that couldn't get their head around the working week starting on a Monday, made a hash of wages and rotas monthly and somehow it was all our fault for fiddling with the calendar.

The worst manager you've ever had

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