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You are 1000% right about that. This guy was one of the most chicken s**t slime balls I've ever known. Eventually, someone in society that has nothing to lose will take it out on him.
Worst boss you ever had?
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As for worst bosses, I worked for East Kentucky Power when I graduated in 1980. My boss had the most stained teeth I had ever seen and shook nervously all of the time. I noticed that he was always carrying around one of those 6 ounce cups of coffee every time I saw him. Someone asked him how much he drank per day and her claimed it was somewhere between 45 and 60 of those small cups a day. I don't know how the guy ever got to sleep at night. Said he drank 5-6 even before he came to work in the morning and another 5-6 in the evening.
I agree. I guess I have anger issues, but some people are just horrible human beings.
The boss that gave me a hard time over my grandfather never fired me but he was a true POS. He was always on my *** about something. Never stopped. He didn't like me cause I wasn't one of the sheep that hung off every word he said. Me and another guy I worked with eventually got our revenge. HR came down for a routine moral visit and we told HR everything this guy had done. I came out of the meeting with HR and and this dude turned white as a ghost and couldn't even speak. I just gave him a slight grin and went about my day.
I can say unequivocally I work for the laziest MFing, time wasting, phone watching, biggest *******, total dickshit and prick that I know.
Other than that he's a pretty good guy.
I work for myself.
Other than that he's a pretty good guy.
I work for myself.
Yup I had a grandfather die and my old boss said "Why are you leaving...people die all the time"
Same boss also denied my honeymoon time off request because she didn't want me to take a week off so I went to HR to get it overturned.
She didn't like that so she threatened to work my *** off and make my life hell.
Needless to say I found another job soon after that.
Hands down it was the last boss I had when I retired. My previous boss (and a UK grad) had only been with the company about 4 years, and didn't know squat about our operation....but she understood that, and trusted all of us to do our jobs, and if there was something we needed, she did whatever should could to help us. She was a sweet person and beloved by all of us, and our success netted her a nice promotion.
They replaced her with another lady (Bama grad), who similarly had zero experience with our operations, but didn't trust any of us and was a micromanager of the highest order of something she knew nothing about. She was vindictive and if you tried to help her out by reasoning with her when you knew damn well she was making a bad decision, she would take it personally. She bogged everything down with needless "measures" that were only designed to make her look good and she hated it when I or any of the other supervisors would give our folks positive reviews. She would make unclear, ridiculous goals, then if you met them, she would simply move the goal posts. She also loved scheduling meetings close to quitting time and didn't care if you had to stay over an hour or two, and would irritate the hell out of you with emails, texts and phone calls if you were on vacation.
In April of 2015, my wife (who worked at the same company but in another division) wanted to retire, so we went to talk to Fidelity about what we needed to do to set it up. Fidelity told us that not only was my wife in great shape to leave, but I was too. I nearly cried when they told me that, because I was figuring I was going to have to work for this ***** for another 2-3 years. Three months after that during a less than flattering performance review, I just stopped her and told her that I didn't like working for her....and that I didn't have to work for her. After turning in my retirement notice, I briefly saw her once in the last two weeks. Since I left in August of 2015, there have been 10 other people who have either retired, left for another job, or been fired. One guy who retired in early September told me that after 32 years, he'd rather work at Lowe's than to work another day under her. I also know two others under her who are actively looking for other jobs. Her dad is pretty far up the corporate management chain, and that's all that has saved her so far, but she recently got pulled onto the carpet by HR, so my guess/hope is that her days are numbered. She's nothing but a spoiled, hot tempered brat always used to getting her way.
Overall, I was pretty fortunate on supervisors over the 34 years I was there. Had a couple that I didn't care for personally, but they at least respected my work. This ***** had zero respect for anyone.
They replaced her with another lady (Bama grad), who similarly had zero experience with our operations, but didn't trust any of us and was a micromanager of the highest order of something she knew nothing about. She was vindictive and if you tried to help her out by reasoning with her when you knew damn well she was making a bad decision, she would take it personally. She bogged everything down with needless "measures" that were only designed to make her look good and she hated it when I or any of the other supervisors would give our folks positive reviews. She would make unclear, ridiculous goals, then if you met them, she would simply move the goal posts. She also loved scheduling meetings close to quitting time and didn't care if you had to stay over an hour or two, and would irritate the hell out of you with emails, texts and phone calls if you were on vacation.
In April of 2015, my wife (who worked at the same company but in another division) wanted to retire, so we went to talk to Fidelity about what we needed to do to set it up. Fidelity told us that not only was my wife in great shape to leave, but I was too. I nearly cried when they told me that, because I was figuring I was going to have to work for this ***** for another 2-3 years. Three months after that during a less than flattering performance review, I just stopped her and told her that I didn't like working for her....and that I didn't have to work for her. After turning in my retirement notice, I briefly saw her once in the last two weeks. Since I left in August of 2015, there have been 10 other people who have either retired, left for another job, or been fired. One guy who retired in early September told me that after 32 years, he'd rather work at Lowe's than to work another day under her. I also know two others under her who are actively looking for other jobs. Her dad is pretty far up the corporate management chain, and that's all that has saved her so far, but she recently got pulled onto the carpet by HR, so my guess/hope is that her days are numbered. She's nothing but a spoiled, hot tempered brat always used to getting her way.
Overall, I was pretty fortunate on supervisors over the 34 years I was there. Had a couple that I didn't care for personally, but they at least respected my work. This ***** had zero respect for anyone.
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And had the situation been reversed, you would've found yourself in EEO counseling.
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I had a boss a few years back that was an insecure micromanager that didn't want any of his personnel getting anything regarding promotions, awards, etc. Nasty bastard that would put sugar and cream in his coffee, lick the spoon and put it back in the drawer without even washing it off. Everyone in the entire plant hated his guts then he made the mistake of messing around with his secretary. She had originally been way overweight but started taking some sort of diet pills and lost about 80 pounds. He divorced his wife of 34 years and took up with his secretary. Due to her mental instability and the problems she was capable of causing he literally got himself into something he couldn't get out of. They both retired and got married then her health went down hill. Last time they were seen she was using a walker and had the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. He broke his collarbone in a motorcycle accident and was still having to take care of her. Someone that talked to him said he was barely coherent and acted as if he was on drugs. Just goes to show that Karma is a *****.
I had a Manager once who acted just like Trump does. I stayed there a year and went on to bigger and better things.
This story actually pisses me off. Any boss who is so anal that they call you while you are on vacation to chew you out deserves to get punched.
The same ****** boss I described above did it to me on two separate vacations--all because of that ***** that worked for him.
I would love to off both of them, but I can't afford the jail time .
The guy who quit a few weeks ago after 32 years told me that when he was going on vacation in July that she told him he needed to take his phone and laptop with him, and to "don't even think about turning the phone off".
At the end of a meeting once, I told her that my wife was having surgery a week from that day, and that I was going to be off. Her eyes darted briefly around the room (no idea what that was about) and then she just said "ok" and nothing else. If one of my people had told me that, my reaction would be "ok....hope it's nothing serious....take whatever time you need and if there's anything I can do, just let me know".....but her reaction reminded me of Dexter, just totally devoid of any emotion. The two days I was off with my wife, I exchanged several emails with her, and not once did this ***** ask me if my wife was ok. I made it a point to tell them about this in my retirement exit interview.
I have a dear friend who still works for her in the same capacity I did. She told me that she's gotten to a point that when it's time to go home, she goes through another part of the building to get to her car so she doesn't have to pass by her office. She's another 32 year employee with a spotless work record and told me that at least a couple of days a week that she's almost in tears by the time she gets home.
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Mine may have been the see you next Tuesday who told me that I wrote to too high of a reading level. I actually found myself using an online tool to dumb down everything I wrote to make it monosyllabic.
Same one chastised me for saying ma'am.
I was raised to say ma'am. Hard to unlearn it.
In the grand scheme of things, this one is nothing. It's even pretty funny in hindsight. But at the time it was maddening:
My first job in high school one summer was working at a small warehouse that distributed candy, soft drinks, cigarettes, etc, that went in vending machines all around town.
I was young and energetic and always looking to do something to help, not understanding that work isn't always like that - that sometimes you have to 'pace yourself' or just look busy doing nothing.
I asked the boss for something to do.
There was a large area with dozens of cardboard boxes, mostly empty, that were just strewn about the room. He told me to stack them neatly.
I spent an hour or two working diligently and finished the job.
So I went right back to him and asked him what else I could do. He looked around, went over to the neatly stacked boxes, pulled out a couple from the bottom, watched the entire stack topple over, then told me to stack the boxes again.
Near the end of summer he asked me to work part time after school. No thanks.
My first job in high school one summer was working at a small warehouse that distributed candy, soft drinks, cigarettes, etc, that went in vending machines all around town.
I was young and energetic and always looking to do something to help, not understanding that work isn't always like that - that sometimes you have to 'pace yourself' or just look busy doing nothing.
I asked the boss for something to do.
There was a large area with dozens of cardboard boxes, mostly empty, that were just strewn about the room. He told me to stack them neatly.
I spent an hour or two working diligently and finished the job.
So I went right back to him and asked him what else I could do. He looked around, went over to the neatly stacked boxes, pulled out a couple from the bottom, watched the entire stack topple over, then told me to stack the boxes again.
Near the end of summer he asked me to work part time after school. No thanks.