Horrible Bosses

UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

Ben Weiss

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Utah office worker catches her boss and another manager gossiping about her, confronts them, and discovers her supervisor has been using her teammate as his personal complaint hotline: ‘ I walked in and said, "Thanks guys. I heard all of that"’

Etai Eshet

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Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

Etai Eshet

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Senior executive abruptly fired after he tried to transfer employee to his department just to assert his authority: 'I’ve asked Head Office to transfer you to my site. Then I’ll see how you refuse me'

Ben Weiss

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25+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them up the wall: 'It was easily the worst shift I ever had'

Remy Millisky

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Employee told they're not allowed to work from home, when they're asked to finish something urgently on the weekend they remind management of "the policy": 'I will get to it on Monday whenever I have the opportunity. Everything will be late'

Brad Dickson

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Employee comes in to the office when they are sick at their boss's demand, boss soon regrets it: 'Boss said no working from home'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is fired after being placed on a PIP and being given the cold shoulder immediately following medical leave : 'HR is not your friend. Learned that the hard way...'

Brad Dickson

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‘HR said it doesn't matter’: Nursing home employer forces employee to falsely ‘clock out’ for breaks they aren't taking in an already severely understaffed environment

Lana DeGaetano

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'I won't be reapplying': Boss makes employee reapply for the same position because of changes in the school district, employee stands ground

Ben Weiss

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Hotel boss forces housekeeping employees to wear uncomfortable, hazardous work uniforms in the heat of the summer, but refuses to wear one himself: 'He refuses to listen to us’

Lana DeGaetano

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Florida amusement park manager Esther punishes employees for refusing surprise overtime and annoys staff into quitting until HR intervenes: ‘I learned from my friends at the resort that Esther turned her venom towards others’

Etai Eshet

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Overworked startup employee gets ghosted by boss for weeks and then suddenly fired and blamed for the business's failures: 'They're using you as a scapegoat'

Ben Weiss

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22-year-old nepo hire Madison breezes into her father’s firm with zero skills and a many-zero salary, pushing marketing veterans to polish exit plans: ‘The worst part is how she treats the rest of us’

Etai Eshet

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'Boss can only blame herself': Boss makes employee miss two days of pay, so he quits for better job and warns new hires so the vacancy wouldn't get filled

Isabella Penn

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Interviewer tells candidate to stop talking when candidate's refusal to let them speak leads to candidate literally talking himself out of a job: 'You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job. Now that chance is zero'

Brad Dickson

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