Horrible Bosses

Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

Brad Dickson

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Boss gets dragged online for reprimanding call center employee's plot to avoid taking calls: 'I can detect all the schemes'

Ben Weiss

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Boss gives another company his employee's personal phone number without her consent: ‘This is my own personal data’

Lana DeGaetano

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Managers discover an employee's social media account, then proceed to ‘gang up’ on her by hazing her on the job: ‘They were writing a physical list of my failures’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee tells coworkers how much his raise was, despite manager asking them to keep it private: ‘[Colleague] is making $14000 less than I am’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss gets called out for posting fake glowing online reviews of his company: '5/5 stars - The Best Job I Ever Had'

Ben Weiss

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Boss calls employee he fired on Christmas, asking for unpaid weekend help as a favor "as a friend” after his wife and only other worker quit, but the former employee refuses

Etai Eshet

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Remote employee forced to come into the office after his 6-year-old daughter makes a cameo during a Zoom call: 'My CEO freaked out!'

Ben Weiss

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Corporate management refuses to use 1 of 3 allocated "storm days" to shut down the facility despite 1 foot of snowfall, forcing employees to use their own PTO instead: 'The VP started the email with "Happy Tuesday!!"'

Brad Dickson

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Employee confronts CEO about delayed paychecks, then quits on the spot after CEO disrespects him: 'Get out of my face!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged'

Brad Dickson

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Manager gives employee a formal warning for following a protocol she created: ‘I wrote a detailed breakdown of every single violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Micromanager tries to blame project delay on employee after employee reports her to HR: 'She now questions everything I do'

Ben Weiss

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Employee forced to take meetings during his lunch break, makes his boss regretful by eating obnoxiously during meetings: 'My 1:00 to 2:00 PM slot has been completely free of meetings ever since'

Ben Weiss

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Toxic boss lays off employee and gives them 8 weeks' severance, unaware that they landed a new job and were planning to resign that day: ‘I posted my… LinkedIn update crowing about my new job’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee floods the boss's DMs, dutifully reporting every single moment away from their desk after the micromanager demands to keep tabs on their whereabouts: 'Every time I leave my desk'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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