Horrible Bosses

Employee forces boss to apologize to his wife after waking them up at 5:55 AM for a non-urgent issue: 'This was unacceptable behavior'

Ben Weiss

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Manager fires top performer over contract dispute to intimidate the rest of the team: 'Keep in line, produce, and don't cause trouble'

Ben Weiss

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Employee gets written up for going to his 2:00pm dentist appointment during working hours

Ben Weiss

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Manager ignores grocery store worker's availability with Friday night text message, says their personal life shouldn't interfere with work : 'I make $14 an hour stocking shelves'

Brad Dickson

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Boss writes 3-page document critiquing working mom's productivity, she responds by handing in her resignation

Ben Weiss

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Absent boss gets backlash for demanding fully remote team to come into the office "5 days a week (8 AM - 5 PM)"

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns after 10 years at the company after expecting salary boost to get him to stay: '[I'm] offended that they didn’t counteroffer when I first presented the resignation'

Ben Weiss

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Kentucky pizzeria threatens 24-year-old prospective business owner with lawsuit over an NDA they signed while working there as their first job at 17-years-old: 'I was 17 and just happy to get the job'

Brad Dickson

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Boss hosts an Employee Appreciation Pizza Party to announce that all raises are postponed, but it backfires as workers realize the irony: 'Why's everybody leaving?'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss enforces "clean desk policy," throws away everything on employees' desks after 6:00 PM: '[My] colleague had a framed photo of her kids taken three times in the same week'

Ben Weiss

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Employee CC's entire 40-person team on every email per his manager's request, clogging everyone's inbox: 'I was just following the policy he set'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns, boss tries to cheap out by offering $20 less per hour than what he's worth to keep him on as a contractor: 'Their offer was not acceptable'

Ben Weiss

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Boss insists employees work from the office all the time without flexible arrangements, but works from home herself halting production while everyone waits for her to show up: 'My first complaint is, if boss isn't there, there's a halt in work'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: Boss fires employee as an April Fools joke, boss gets fired for real when entire team walks out: 'It's April fools! It was a joke! Get back in here!'

Brad Dickson

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Car dealership manager backtracks and says it's a prank after employee quits in response to being told he was fired for refusing to buy a car from the manager: 'I already had a better job that was able to start me immediately'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is told that the promotion she applied for is being dissolved, she gets given the role's responsibilities anyway with no extra pay: 'There’s a pretty significant pay gap between the dissolved role and my current role'

Brad Dickson

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