horrible-management

Company hires 5 different managers for 1 employee, only 1 of the managers actually contributes any value: 'Why do companies keep employing these people?'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager gives employee urgent tasks at 4:55 p.m. on Fridays, when their office hours are till 5, the employee finally stands up and says "no" to them: 'A coworker told me I’m making things harder for everyone'

María Cetra

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Manager gets fired after employee reports her bad behavior, leading manager to spend her last days making employee’s work life a nightmare: ‘She has dropped all pretenses of being a professional’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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College student advisor decides to leave after 1 year being overworked and underappreciated by her boss and her ‘flying monkey’ subordinate: ‘I literally broke down and cried at my desk’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Restaurant server shows up for her shift exactly on time, manager threatens to fire her anyways: ‘I was supposed to show up 30 minutes before my work time.’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘The hypocrisy is what really drives me crazy’: Bar manager holds employees to a tardiness rule but can't stick to the rules herself, so an employee starts lying to her

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee starts arriving to work at 7:00 AM to beat his boss, only to realize he's forcing his boss to come in 1.5 hours earlier: 'The director demands all managers to arrive before the first staff member arrives'

Ben Weiss

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HOA board gets called out by community for ignoring bylaws and enforcing fake policies: 'Time to hire a lawyer and sue!'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker calls in sick to "recover" from her concert the night before, forcing employee to work without a break for a 12 hour shift: 'She was telling everyone she would fake call in sick, and still got away with it!'

Ben Weiss

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Colleague berates employee and falsely accuses them of workplace mismanagement, then files a formal complaint with HR: ‘She lost it’

Lana DeGaetano

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MRI technician leaves patient in the middle of a scan to go on a bike ride, the first of many instances of malpractice: ‘This didn't even get him fired’

Lana DeGaetano

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HR requests a ‘legalized resignation document’ from a former employee who quit 5 months prior, ex-employee thinks something shady is going on: ‘Their organization might be a front’

Lana DeGaetano

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Company seemingly forges their former employee's signature on a company NDA after they quit: ‘[I want] my name off any documents I did not sign’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Now they'll have to pay 50% more to replace me’: Tech manager tries to negotiate a lower raise with their star employee, only for her to resign and score a senior position elsewhere

Lana DeGaetano

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HOA sends non-HOA homeowner a letter demanding her to follow all HOA rules because her home's previous owner agreed to do so: ‘[They said] I still have to follow them’

Lana DeGaetano

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Unorganized boss tries to blame his own mistake on an employee in front of the company owner, employee claps back with receipts: ‘The owner… patted me on the shoulder’

Lana DeGaetano

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