Can You Remember Your Boss from Hell? Describe Him/Her.

[jennygirl]

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I am doing a survey for the January issue of my e-zine (bizshrink.net). I'm seeking examples of some of the worst or evilest boss you ever had throughout the course of your career.

For example, mine was a smooth, narcissitic doctor who started out as a Svengali to an impressible young research associate like me.
He charmed me into writing a big lucrative clinical trial center and big pharma grant and promised me the world in return. He wined and dined me and all. I fulfilled my part of the bargain and requested a medical assistant as I was going several jobs into one (clinical research coordinator, EKG Tech, phlebotomist, blood pressure and urinalysis taker). Eventually, I buckled under the stress had was ordered by my physician to take a week off for medical reasons.

The next week upon my return, I found myself demoted while an aging blond bimbo was now my boss and I had to not only take orders from her ( for Dr. Svengali had bragged to everyone that I was an expert at reading body language). Not only was I to take orders from her but I was to train her, too
(this was in Louisiana in the early 1990s and I was a very qualified Black employee and Miss Thing was often seen coming out of the Good Doctor's locked office quickly heading to the bathroom to freshen up her oral hygiene).

Nonetheless, I refused. I came to work everyday and sat there all day making all kinds of mistakes. But that didn't faze them because they ganged up on me and I had to quit. I was working 10 hour days and going to grad school three nights a week for three hours.

Eventually, I resigned and signed up to get my unemployment. Dr. S vainly and maliciously tried to deny me my benefits. But the judge ruled in my favor charging constructive discharge and his not honoring his promise to give me a raise or promotion, but instead a demotion.

I suffered as a result by them blacklisting me from jobs related to my field and had to work survival jobs and became a problem drinker for a while? What's your story?

[LiberalFighter]

1. I probably never had a truly boss from hell.

Difficult for them to get to that point when employees have a union. Not impossible but difficult.

Did hear of one management negotiator that refused to bargain and spent his time doing Sodoku puzzles. The shop chairman used his phone to shoot a picture of it and let his bosses know.

[Sentath]

2. The worst (so far) and let us hope forever

Was given to shouting at her employees for doing something the way she had outlined it to us yesterday. Sadly we couldn't keep up with the memos issued in her head about how things should be done today.

[goldcanyonaz]

3. My boss told me of wrapping mice in duct tape and throwing them into the fireplace.

[HopeHoops]

4. The rich brat owner who made me bitch at the employees about dress code then showed up in gym shorts

The company folded shortly after I left and I'm not shocked. He used "daddy's money" to create the company and had no integrity. Most of his customers were classmates from one of the local Catholic high schools. He'd rip them off as soon as look at them. Asshole.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Here's the short version.

1). She was the director of Information Technology. I reported directly to her.

2). We got a new company president. She assumed she would be promoted to Vice President and report directly to him.

3). That didn't happen. Instead, she remained a director, and her new boss was the V.P. who was also in charge of Facilities.

4). She SNAPPED.

5). She made everyone's life a living hell.

6). When her new boss would call on the phone, I'd tell her, and she'd say "fuck him" and not take the call.

7). When her new boss's secretary came to schedule an appointment with her, and I told her she was booked, the secretary would go back to her boss, complain, and then my boss would yell at me.

8). She got to the point where she told me that when she came in every morning, I could not speak to her for the first 30 minutes.

9). One day, her boss's secretary called to tell her about a meeting she was supposed to be in and had missed. I went into my boss's office. She yelled at me for speaking with her in the first 30 minutes.

10). I said "FUCK THIS."

11). She said "I want you OUT of here."

12). I said "WHEN?"

13). She said "30 days."

14). Realizing that she couldn't do this without appropriate verbal / written warnings in place, she went to H.R. and attempted to "retroactively" put these warnings together.

Yeah, I had grounds for a lawsuit, but I didn't want it. I wanted to get away from that fucking place. So I found another job...a step up in pay and responsibility...before the 30 days were up.

15). A couple of years later, she went to Singapore, because that was the only way she was able to orchestrate the Vice President promotion she wanted.

When she left, her replacement in the department was hired to fill her director's shoes.

But they hired him as a VICE PRESIDENT.

Justice...karma...whatever you want to call it...was SWEET.

[TrogL]

6. One of the most insecure people I've ever met

Every thirty minutes he'd be at my door asking if everything was OK, item by item. I finally moved my office to a different floor he didn't have access to. Then he'd email me every five minutes.