Horrible Bosses

Coworker does vacant manager's position for a year under guise of promotion: '[They] resigned because, surprise!.. It didn't happen'

Brad Dickson

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Boss refuses to give in to employee's demands until they quit: 'He is scrambling. He has no one to fill my position'

Brad Dickson

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'The company dangled an unreachable carrot': Employee laments their impossible targets that were only designed to make their team work harder for nothing

Brad Dickson

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15+ Technologically incompetent coworker stories: 'Old coworker used to print out 100+ page PDF just to scan it all back into email one by one'

Ben Weiss

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'You can kiss your weekend hiking trips goodbye': Manager maliciously decries worker's desire for their weekends ordering them to work 6 days a week

Brad Dickson

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'Micromanage me? Go ahead': Fast food workers band together to get micromanaging shift supervisor fired

Ben Weiss

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'Never gonna happen': Micromanager assigns overworked employee more responsibilities, then cuts his pay in half, leading employee to leave company high and dry

Sienna Varady

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Overachieving employee raises KPI averages higher just so their boss misses a promotion: 'The entire sector didn't get raises that year'

Brad Dickson

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Worker reprimanded when their coworker who was supposed to cover their shift no-shows: 'I got in trouble for it'

Brad Dickson

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Manager asks barista to a pay fine for calling out sick: 'Is there any way you can pay $50'

Brad Dickson

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'She was fired': Hybrid employee takes a take a sick day instead after being admonished by boss for working an additional day from home while sick

Brad Dickson

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'My workload diminishes and boss's increases': Employee makes micromanaging boss handle tasks, ends up coasting with no work

Ben Weiss

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'If it's not in writing, it didn't happen': Employee uses written communication as defense when micromanaging supervisor's tries to get of them

Brad Dickson

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'If you have a problem with my direction, you come to me': Entire team complies with boss's vague instructions, putting her job in jeopardy

Ben Weiss

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Construction worker offers former micromanager a job, setting the record straight and teaching him a valuable lesson in humility despite of the claim that he will ‘never amount to anything’

Sienna Varady

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Worker calls out company for asking for donations to help a struggling coworker: 'A lot of us are already struggling to make ends meet as it is'

Brad Dickson

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