horrible bosses

'One big problem is we are given way too much time': Management enforces employees be paid for exact project time only, employees rebel by taking maximum time to complete tasks

Isabella Penn

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'I’m not a flashy person in the slightest': Boss criticizes employee's personal spending habits, claims it looks bad while company is doing layoffs

Isabella Penn

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Boss cuts productive employee's hours, they quit, boss gets fired due to drop in performance: 'So, I quit'

Brad Dickson

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Boss lies on incident report after workplace incident, blaming employee: 'Should I confront my boss about this?'

Brad Dickson

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'I see you're not a team player': Boss limits breaks to two 15-minute sessions due to being understaffed, employee consults union and faces backlash for reporting

Isabella Penn

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Boss wants employee to train their outsourced replacement who will be earning 75% less: '[He] expects me to train her...'

Brad Dickson

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Employee quits, then orchestrates an audit to get former boss fired three years later: 'She couldn't prove that she didn't misuse funds'

Ben Weiss

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Efficiency consultant "experts" advise firing the wrong employee cost the company their biggest account: 'Business went from $200k to zero'

Brad Dickson

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Entire team asked to take 70% pay cut after incompetent boss messes up contract negotiation: 'Virtually nobody is accepting this insulting offer'

Ben Weiss

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Employee figures out toxic boss is watching their every move and no one else, plans payback: 'The camera is pointed directly at me'

Ben Weiss

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'Sorry, boss. I got other plans': Boss confronts employee about not attending weekend work party, employee tells boss to reschedule work events for the actual work day

Ben Weiss

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'You really can't win with her': Top Infuriating Coworker Stories of the Week (June 9, 2024)

Ben Weiss

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Employee skillfully complies with micromanager's demands for complete access to personal schedule by erasing everything from calendar before granting access

Sienna Varady

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Boss denies employee's request for resigned worker's accounts, assigns to coworker, then begs original employee for help when coworker struggles: 'Every part of me wants to tell them to pound sand'

Isabella Penn

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Video content creator gets unfairly fired, hatches plan to trick boss into a year's worth of pay: 'My former manager was so desperate'

Ben Weiss

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Boss declines pregnant employee's requests for accommodation a week before her due date, HR steps in and grants her leave immediately

Brad Dickson

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