Horrible Bosses

'I'm not coming, you've ripped me off': Student delivery worker refuses to show up to work after entitled boss underpays him, leaving boss to make deliveries himself

Ben Weiss

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'No matter how long he stays after this, his salary is frozen and won't increase again': Coworker receives "final" raise after 12 years at his company, immediately submits resignation and uses new salary to get a better job offer

Ben Weiss

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New CFO fires head IT guy and replaces him with incompetent nephew, company's system malfunctions sooner thereafter: 'Pam was gone within a month'

Ben Weiss

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Boss throws extravagant Christmas party after round of layoffs, then posts about it on social media: 'It was quite inconsiderate on their part'

Ben Weiss

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Employer threatens remote employee with lawsuit for a second time after they hand in their resignation, despite them extending their notice period by 45 days: 'I just want out of this circus without getting a lawsuit thrown at me'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled coworker tries to steal employee's intern to sabotage an upcoming work project: 'I’m not going to lie down and let this happen'

Ben Weiss

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Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

Etai Eshet

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Candidate gets told they are an ideal match by a recruiter, then quickly rejected by the hiring manager for not staying long enough in previous jobs: ‘You’re told you’re a great match until you aren’t’

Etai Eshet

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Boss overloads employee with work to try to get him to quit, he confronts her directly: 'If you want me gone, you'll have to fire me and pay my severance'

Ben Weiss

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HR pressures employee returning from 3 years of medical leave to input all of their time-off requests once they return to work, then gets mad when they use all 75 accrued days: ‘Still makes me smile like a maniac’

Lana DeGaetano

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22-year-old worker goes home sick, and her 58-year-old supervisor shows up unannounced at her house asking for her and her mom: ‘[He] just showed up at our doorstep, asking for me by name’

Etai Eshet

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Boss forces manager to require that his assistant join team meetings during his vacation: '[We] need to attend meetings for free on our days off'

Ben Weiss

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‘We all just stood there in silence’: Arrogant manager breaks down after several of his employees quit, leads a meeting where he berates remaining staff, and then receives another resignation

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee makes boss $1.5 million in commissions, only to get a $25 AMC gift card as a Christmas bonus: 'When I put in my two weeks' notice, he called legal on me'

Ben Weiss

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Employee double-checks a grant detail to prove his right, accidentally uncovers widespread legal noncompliance that everyone in the organization ignored for years: ‘This entire situation happened because I wasn’t about to let someone tell me I’m wrong’

Etai Eshet

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Automotive product planning employee gets promoted and boss fired by booking wheels and tires as checked luggage when boss tries to blame him for a misdelivered shipment of wheels for a photoshoot: 'He had no one else to blame'

Brad Dickson

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