Boss From Hell stories...

aephi alum · #1 12-13-2002, 06:57 PM

In honor of its being Friday

anyone got a good boss-from-hell story they want to share?

Here's one that happened to me this week. As some of you know, I work a few hours a week at my temple, in addition to my "real" job. I help out with the religious school on Sunday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. (setting out a snack for the kids, overseeing dismissal, calling parents when kids don't show up, etc - not very exciting work, but for a while there, it was my only job.)

This past Wednesday, the school was closed due to the ice storm. I assumed I wouldn't have to go in or call in (after all, the teachers don't have to call in) so I put in a couple extra hours at my real job (which is a lot more interesting and pays a he!! of a lot better).

Yesterday I got home to find a nasty message on my machine from the temple administrator demanding to know where I was the day before. Apparently she'd closed the school, but not the office.

So she expected me to schlep all the way down there to spend 3 hours, earning an amount of money so small you can't fold it - doing what, exactly? My only duties on Wednesdays are for the school, and the school was closed.

My guess: She wanted me to cover the phones so she could go home early before the ice storm started in earnest. She is salaried and gets paid whether she's there or not. It doesn't bother her in the least that I probably would have wrapped my car around a telephone pole on the way home.

I have worse stories, this one is just fresh in my mind...

OUlioness01 · #2 12-13-2002, 07:31 PM

before he got fired, the general manager at the restaurant where i work on breaks used to sneak out to go to the "bank" for 3 to 4 hours at a time leaving me with no manager. i's the youngest employee and i had to deal with 40 yr old servers wandering off for smoke breaks every 3 minutes while the restaurant was full with a 20 minute wait list and I had no one at all to help me at the front. then he wuold come back and lock the door so no one knew he was back.

DeltAlum · #3 12-13-2002, 11:45 PM

Ummm...

I had some good and some bad bosses.

Then I became a boss myslef. I think most of my direct reports liked me. (!?) Being a boss isn't an easy thing to do.

Hootie · #4 12-14-2002, 12:47 AM

Hmmm, I've got a few horrid boss stories that revolve around the same guy.

When I worked at another jewelry store I worked for a man who would tell jokes that were offensive (sexual jokes), intimidate me, go off on multiple smoke breaks, take hour long + lunch breaks while I was starving at 3 pm....Oh, and then he would fire rubber bands at my butt and tell me how huge it is. Oh and then one time he said a joke and I said it wasn't funny and then he said something to the effect of,"your mom sure thought it was funny in bed last night".
Yeah, so after working for that company for 2 1/2 years I quit and confronted the DM about the manager. He is still employed there and fired or harassed everyone else until they quit shortly after I left.
What an A$$

KillarneyRose · #5 12-14-2002, 12:50 AM

My first job out of college, my boss' boss (what would that be, my boss squared???) often made inappropriate remarks to me. The only one that really sticks in my mind was one time when we passed one another in the hall and he remarked on how much he loved to watch me bounce toward him. Eeeew, greasy old geezer!

DeltAlum · #6 12-14-2002, 01:52 AM

Geez. Those guys are lucky they didn't have their butts handed to them in sexual harrassment actions.

Idiots.

ADPiViolets · #7 12-14-2002, 03:12 AM

I quit my job when I was 18 years old because my boss (a doctor, who was 43 at the time), kissed me.

carnation · #8 12-14-2002, 09:58 AM

My boss--not the one at the college but the one where I've worked a couple of nights a week for the last 14 years--was fired last month for "creating an uncomfortable environment". Bluntly put, sexual harassment. He was even talking dirty to women who are much older than I am.

I feel like a huge load has been lifted off my shoulders because I don't have to hide from him anymore.

navane · #9 12-14-2002, 11:16 AM

I worked at a company which was having a district-wide holiday party at a fancy hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Our branch was located in North Orange County. The party's arrival time/cocktail hour was set for 6:30, with dinner being at 8pm.

Our location normally closes at 5pm on Fridays. Since that Friday was a special company occassion, and since people needed time to get changed and fancied up, AND everyone would have to drive 40-50 miles through rush-hour traffic to downtown L.A.....you'd think that our boss would let us out a little bit early, right?

Wrong.

The boss in the deaprtment next door let all of his staff go home at noon. What a guy!!

My boss? My coworkers asked if they could go early and she said no. Then, she came walking by our area at 3:30pm for no apparent reason. It seemed to me as if she was checking to make sure that no one had skipped out early.

About 4pm I had a question about something I was doing and I went by her office to ask for her advice. She wasn't there and the lights were off. I asked the lady who sits right outside her door where the boss was. Her reply?

"Oh, she left for home 15 minutes ago."

.....Kelly