She made us redo perfect work because it “felt too easy.” It was not easy the second time.
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We had a private function and so we were busy and I couldn't squeeze by people and he told me to go behind the bar and so I did - when he saw me going behind the bar a few hours later he got upset and told me to never do it again.
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Our boss loved efficiency, so he combined three jobs into one role… and gave no extra time or pay.
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There were days when we were moving absolutely everything by hand because they'd forgotten to pay the bill for the propane delivery for the one forklift.
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I had a boss who refused to let me take an "unplanned vacation" to see my grandma on her deathbed. I quit on the spot.
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He said we needed more “energy,” so he turned off the lights and called it a “focus challenge.”
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He did not care for employee safety, dust particulates and small objects flying around? Nah you don't need a mask or safety glasses. Fiberglass particulates in the air from cutting? Nope, you don't need gloves
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My manager scheduled a surprise meeting… to discuss why we seemed stressed by surprise meetings.
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He insisted on “open communication,” then got mad every time someone spoke up.
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Our boss replaced passwords with riddles, but no one could log in because no one solved them.
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I worked outside in 7 hours shifts with only a 30 minute break. I went inside to get a drink of water and my manager told me to get back to work.
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I worked a for a gas station. My then bosses were atrocious. I Was forced to work when hurricane Sandy was a day away from landfall and after a man tried to climb the counter threatening my life, boss refused to come in.
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Our boss replaced meetings with voice memos, but they were all 8 minutes long and somehow less clear.
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When I would leave the office for anything within five minutes I was sent an email with the subject "Where did you go" even if it was on the calendar that I had a doctor appointment or something scheduled.
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The vice president told me I was being disrespectful during a conversation. I asked how and she told me that I "knew what I was doing". I asked again, stating that I had asked because I didn't actually know and was told she didn't have time
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She routinely called me in the middle of the night (11pm - 3am) to complain about things that could wait until work hours.
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My manager replaced deadlines with “vibes,” then got mad when our project had bad vibes and no progress.
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Regardless he acted as if he was the supreme authority on everything and would get personally involved with big issues. Instead of actually helping though he would berate people
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My manager assigned a team leader, then overruled every decision they made in real time.
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She and her friend (both on 100k plus), would go to the local soup kitchen for lunch because "our taxes pay for it!";
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I said "yep" instead of yes. She then told me that was inappropriate and that she hated it when her daughter would do the same thing.
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He hears nothing of what you're actually saying, even when he takes you aside and asks for input (which is rare). Even after a discussion, 5 minutes later he doesn't remember a word you said, no matter how important the subject.
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My boss is an absolute HR nightmare. First of all, he's the CEO of the company and thinks he can get away with anything because his brother is the company lawyer and his other brother is the HR manager.
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I worked for a retail store, I'd been there for close to three years, I asked my supervisor for the possibility of a promotion, the supervisor laughed at me
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Our boss printed every email “for records,” then lost the records.
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He said we needed “team bonding,” then assigned us to rate each other publicly. It didn't go well.
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He banned clocks because they were “stressful,” then yelled at us for not knowing what time it was.
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Dude would order the same quantity of EVERYTHING. Like, just went down the order sheet going 5, 5, 5, 5. Doesn't matter how fast we run out of vanilla or how few people ordered the weird flavors; we got 5 tubs of each a week.
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he would tell me to ask for help I didn't ask for it, but when I did he would say things like "can you really not do this??".
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My manager created a suggestion box, but it automatically shredded every suggestion “to avoid negativity.”
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My manager banned chairs because “standing builds urgency.” We were slower, just more tired
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I had a boss who would try to turn every single interaction into an argument or confrontation.
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I worked at a Boys and Girls Club where the boss HATED children. Hated them.
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My manager tracked productivity by counting how many times we clicked our mouse. We clicked… a lot.
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He would also sit with customers and wouldn't manage or talk to staff during his working hours.
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I once worked at a company where the CIO (Chief Information Officer) sideswiped a woman's car as she pulled into a parking space. The woman who had the car that got hit got out. The CIO walked right past her.
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My manager scheduled a meeting to discuss having fewer meetings. It lasted two hours.
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He said multitasking was key, then interrupted us constantly to assign new tasks.
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Unknown to me he'd decided to plant a hidden camera disguised as a movement sensor, perfectly placed to watch me.
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I worked in a warehouse for several years. The owner of the company was... utterly incompetent. He would yell and scream orders to people, and had very little clue what he was doing.
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The first day he told me to go put my stuff in a cabin that didn't exist, then yelled at me when I wasn't unpacked an hour later.
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We also had no hard hats. So running the automatic shrink wrap machines on stacks of stuff was dangerous. One time I was knocked nearly unconscious when a pallet of CRT computer monitors fell apart on me.
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50% of the staff were her relatives. These people did not have to clean the site and only had to give an hours notice if they were not going to turn up;
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He told us to “work smarter, not harder,” but never explained what that meant.
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Start my first day and meet a new guy who was also hired. Get there and I'm sent on the floor to waitress. I've never waitressed before, I applied to be a bartender.
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