Horrible Bosses

Social media manager buries micromanaging boss in approval requests and business starts to suffer, owner steps in and gives manager more control and a raise: 'The problem is she takes forever to respond'

Isabella Penn

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Worker who always comes to work 20 to 30 minutes early is late to work once, prompting reprimand from their boss, the next time they're late they show up 2.5 hours late instead: 'Same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for being 3 hours late? Ok boss'

Brad Dickson

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‘Now I sell by myself and make tons more money’: Friends try to hijack a homemade ice cream business by eating the inventory, inviting freeloaders, and cutting out the owner, forcing the real entrepreneur to take everything and leave

Etai Eshet

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Worker with 4 jobs and 5 roommates gets sick but managers force him to come in anyway: 'Now everyone has it including [my] managers'

Ben Weiss

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Boss cuts back on granting overtime, worker complies and refuses to jump on urgent project after hours: 'All scheduled overtime had to be approved…cool!'

Ben Weiss

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Retail worker’s attempt to resign turns into a game of cat and mouse as her boss ignores and keeps calling her in for shifts she’s already quit: ‘I make it clear I’m resigning, not taking leave, she tells me to “let her know when I'm ready to come back”’

Etai Eshet

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'Whole spreadsheets, proposals, pitch decks, gone': Toxic boss continually deletes employees' work to 'test' their 'adaptability' under pressure

Lana DeGaetano

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10+ new hires who got fired for ridiculous reasons: ''[The new] cook stole a 25 lb bag of onions!'

Ben Weiss

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‘Tina always acted like the simplest parts of the job were beneath her’: Dental office assistant Tina hides supplies to avoid work, pushing her coworker to stop covering for her, leading to Tina’s dramatic departure

Etai Eshet

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Apathetic boss disallows employee to take a yearly vacation with their sick mother, but allows the rest of their colleagues to take them without hesitation: ‘My boss told me that I was "bringing down morale"’

Lana DeGaetano

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Veteran tech employee refuses to be the default mentor for a needy new hire, Kaitlyn after being volunteered without warning: “Our manager casually said, ‘Oh, and Kaitlyn will be shadowing Clara for onboarding’’’

Etai Eshet

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On-call employee reprimanded for her work clothing, even though her boss's wife wears the same outfits to the office: 'She complains to her husband about me needing to cover up'

Emma Saven

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Employee tries to quit after working 80 hours for 3 months straight, boss hits them with "no": 'My salary has actually declined since over the past 5 years'

Brad Dickson

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Call center manager, Janet, tells employees they can only use restroom outside of breaks if it's an emergency, so employee acts out dramatic scenes every time she needs the restroom: 'I make sure to treat it like the medical emergency she wants it to be'

Emma Saven

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Entitled boss asks for underpaid employees to be "team players" and voluntarily take pay deductions for the company's benefit: 'You could deduct anywhere from to 10 to 5,000 a paycheck!'

Ben Weiss

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Boss gives same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for hours, so an always-early employee decides to lay back his mornings, making the most of every write-up: ‘I had a leisurely 2-hour breakfast and got the same write up’

Etai Eshet

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