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Very few things are more pathetic than someone trying to command an authority they don’t have, or pretending to have everything under control when they clearly don’t, but when it comes to our ridiculous bosses, we love to see it unfold. That’s the case for this Redditor, who shared a story about a very “interesting” manager, who’s also his boss’s wife.

Employee plans to leave his job without notice and refuses to train his designated successor: 'If anything remotely related to "what she does" is brought up by the employees, I tell them that they'll have to reach out to her, and I can't help them'

This is what happens when your boss has a questionable ‘talent’. Very rarely do we consider that some things can be a gift to someone while at the same time being a curse to somebody else. Am I revealing too much of today’s story here? Probably, but this boss exceeded my expectations in terms of gaslighting abilities. Let's read on.

Entitled boss quietly dumps his own admin onto an employee for months on end, dismissing any kind of confrontation about it: ‘He laughed and said "Let's not make a big thing of it"'

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Anonymous Company Survey Accidentally Leaked By HR to the Entire Company

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Boss Denies Agreeing to Employee's Raise Request, Employee Finds Receipts with HR

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Manager refuses to spend $50 on external software, insisting engineer waste company resources developing a platform in-house: 'This project was costing the company roughly $4,000 in billing hours'

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Virginia employee refuses to use software that records customers without approval, seeks legal action after employer threatens termination

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Remote Worker Reprimanded for Not Being Performative Enough on Slack Despite Stellar Output

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Texas employee receives $2,800 bill from former boss for quitting within 12 months of completing the training program

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California-based ex-boss forces former employee to sign NDA 3 months after layoffs: 'I genuinely don't know what triggered this'

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Employee Accepts New Job and Gives Notice, Then Comes Back Begging for Old Job After New Company Rescinds Offer

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Texas employee changes LinkedIn status to "Open to Work," now seeks legal protection after boss treats his social media post as a resignation letter

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Manager wastes company resources building a case against an employee he personally dislikes, ends up getting put on a PIP himself

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Manager abandons factory floor workers to fend for themselves when 90 degree heatwave sweeps the plant, says overworked and overtired employee, they resign giving their 2 weeks' notice: 'After getting a promotion, I got a 1 dollar raise'

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Woman loses a job offer after her former manager, who volunteered to be her reference, flags burnout concerns to the hiring company

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Ohio woman resigns from her medical billing job and discovers her former manager is telling clients she was fired for misconduct involving patient accounts: ‘I don’t want this rumor to damage my new job before I even start’

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Update: Boss denies employee's July PTO request because it aligns with her vacation, employee refuses to cancel her trip, finds better job at competitor

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Former employee joins rival company and ends up in meeting with old bosses criticizing his work: 'The nervous little laughs were glorious'

Former employee joins rival company and ends up in meeting with old bosses criticizing his work: 'The nervous little laughs were glorious'

Grandchild spends months arranging to buy grandmother's garden, cousin suddenly changes his mind and claims it for himself: 'Why hasn't he done anything to acquire it before?'

Grandchild spends months arranging to buy grandmother's garden, cousin suddenly changes his mind and claims it for himself: 'Why hasn't he done anything to acquire it before?'

'It would otherwise be empty...' Homeowner discovers neighbor has been parking his SUV on his driveway while he's at work, so he installs a parking bollard and gets called 'passive aggressive'

'It would otherwise be empty...' Homeowner discovers neighbor has been parking his SUV on his driveway while he's at work, so he installs a parking bollard and gets called 'passive aggressive'

Boss fires employee and goes on a 3-week cruise, leaving retirement community with no one to cover weekends: ‘We’re 3 people in my department - my boss, Brian, and me. My boss just fired Brian and left’

Boss fires employee and goes on a 3-week cruise, leaving retirement community with no one to cover weekends: ‘We’re 3 people in my department - my boss, Brian, and me. My boss just fired Brian and left’

Candidate rejects job offer after discovering HR lied about the 90k salary, HR insists the "company benefits” are worth it: ‘I can't afford to live on that wage’

Candidate rejects job offer after discovering HR lied about the 90k salary, HR insists the "company benefits” are worth it: ‘I can't afford to live on that wage’

Diner leaves a dinner party early because the vegan lasagna didn’t fill him up: ‘There were no noodles, no cheese, and no sauce. It was basically layers of vegetables stacked together’

Diner leaves a dinner party early because the vegan lasagna didn’t fill him up: ‘There were no noodles, no cheese, and no sauce. It was basically layers of vegetables stacked together’

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