managers

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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Employee complies with manager's bad instruction, then manager comes back to consult with employee about what to do when his instructions don't work out

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Manager aproves employee's PTO, insists that he be on line anyway, and gives the employee the cold shoulder when he sets the boundary: 'That's how it works here'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee tells current boss about the opportunity they have been offered with another department, boss jealously insists salary cap for department transfers is 12%, employee gets offered a 28% pay increase leading their boss to consider them a traitor

Brad Dickson

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Manager lets team stop work at 5:30, upper management lowers their bonuses because they don't work until 8: 'Another department was showing more passion'

Ally Perry

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Employee befriends new manager and starts ignoring her coworkers, manager gets fired for bad performance, so she tries to go back to her old friends: ‘She started acting like she was untouchable’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘Your job is not to coach people’: Boss tells front desk employee to stop helping customers with their mistakes, regrets it when chaos ensues with incorrectly filed forms

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Manager orders support staff to close every customer complaint before leaving the day, causing a flood of duplicate cases in the system: 'The rule was quietly reversed'

Cata Holmes

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After 3 years under a clueless boss, Employee feels stuck in his career just because his bosses care only for their own ideas and give him no credit: 'While everyone notices my work, no one really gives me any benefit for it.'

María Cetra

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A desperate out-of-work employee opens up about the dehumanization of the interview process till he actually got a job: 'Be human, trust in yourself, and good things will come.'

María Cetra

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Former employee joins rival company and ends up in meeting with old bosses criticizing his work: 'The nervous little laughs were glorious'

Cata Holmes

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Clever manufacturing plant worker plans a 20-person meeting that no one attends, then gets even with the no-show employees: 'Management had a fit'

Remy Millisky

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Boss holds emergency meeting with all 100 staff demanding that responders to "anonymous" company survey reveal themselves on the spot, turning the ordeal into a humiliation ritual: '​The room was silent except for one new girl who raised her hand'

Brad Dickson

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15+ Bosses who hired the wrong person for the job: 'Hired a dishwasher... [he] doesn't like to get his hands wet'

Remy Millisky

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'I'm practically doing your job': 25-year-old cashier belittles manager, gets "super fired"

Remy Millisky

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15 Bosses who regretted firing their best employees: 'He won't sign it... fire him'

Remy Millisky

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