[ZTAngel]

I might not know the whole story behind your boss but I do think there's a lot more to life than being upset that you're boss forgot your year anniversary.

Everyone has crappy bosses. They deal with it.

I had a boss who made everyone's life miserable on purpose. When a Category 4 hurricane was heading right for Florida in just a few hours, he made us work the whole day even though we all wanted to get home to our families and board up our homes. I drove home from work that day in torrential downpour and winds that I couldn't even stand up in. I dealt with it.

I had a boss who made me feel uncomfortable everyday for my religious and political beliefs. He ordered holiday cards that said 'Merry Christmas' and said his reason was that most of the world is Christian (not true) and everyone else would just have to get use to it. I could've thrown a fit, marched over to HR, and put in my notice to resign right then. But, I dealt with it.

I had a boss who didn't believe women should be in the workforce. He felt that they should be home with the children. If a woman was childless or only had 1 child, he said that she was selfish. He constantly made degrading comments about women. You could see that he felt in this way by just looking at the ratio women to men our office: 7 men for every woman. I hated him more than anyone in the world but I chose to just ignore him.

I had a boss who played solitare on his computer all day while making me spend some weekends working on the stuff that he was supposed to do. He then would tell me that work wasn't getting done and it was all my fault. Once again, I dealt with it.

I had a boss who forced a co-worker with health problems into early retirement. He also laid off a guy right after his son was born. He also has been making up gossip about our Business Director so that this man could get fired after his reputation becomes tarnished (thus making the poor guy unemployable).

I had a boss that let me go 2 weeks before my resignation date after being nice enough to give him a month's notice on my resignation. He knew I needed the money and he did this out of spite because he's a nasty person. Instead of complaining, I took some time off for myself to regroup and figure out what I wanted to do with my life. In other words, I dealt with it.

My boss didn't remember the date of when I had been working there for one year nonetheless my birthday. It didn't even phase me.

People everywhere have absolutely horrible bosses. I would say that many of us on GC have had bosses that are just as awful if not worse than mine. We dealt with it! Sorry, but the post just got to me. I went through hell and back again with my boss. If him not remembering your year anniversary is one of the bigger problems you have with him, than you should put a smile on your face and thank goodness that you have a boss who is ok. You could have a lot worse. You'll fill find that you will have managers in your lifetime that shouldn't be in a management position. They obtained their position out of seniority rather than if they're a good leader. If you want sympathy from GCers because your boss didn't remember your anniversary, I just don't think you're going to get it here.