Worst boss you've worked for

Fairly young Chinese woman with a PhD. She was awful at delegating and didn't give much direction. Super smart, but she should never have a leadership role.

Never had a bad boss. I'm not a bad employee and I it's easy to read people and not get on their bad side.

I've heard several mods say that Chicken is like a Putin/Kim Jong Il crossover

Did a few winters a Ski Resort called Bull Mountain. Was a family owned resort and was awesome work environment and the owner was great. Good times drinking, snowboarding, met great friends.

Last winter I worked some hot shot investors bought the mountain and resort and tried to change it up like Aspen. New owner began to make major changes to the town and mountain, such as changing the dive bar to an upscale club and making us wear dumb one piece outfits.

He wanted me to be manager but I had to fire my friends. Guy was a prick, but he had hot stepdaughters.

He expected me to learn like 20 years worth of parts manuals in a week for 10 different vehicles. Bitched at everyone constantly. After a couple of weeks, I went into his office and told him he was an a-hole, and quit

I used to work for this guy in the early 90's before he started the company in that link.

I worked at the LSU Dairy Store as a student worker in 2014. The lady who was running the store- Sandy Williams- is certainly the most vile human being I have ever met.

She usually had 2-3 workers on at a time and her and her "co-manager" (just a friend who she got the job for) would sit at one fo the customer tables and talk shite about the students working behind the counter and gossip.

She was grotesquely fat, black, uneducated, probably illiterate, and smoked/drank like it was gov check day at the casino.

Most of her time was spent outside in front of the store directly to the side of the entrance. There she smoked 2 packs of crowns and 3 swishers a day, and drank a pint of seagrams before lunch, which she kept handy in her back pocket.

The business was going to shite with the quickness under her. She actively scared away the rare student looking to come in for something and always had 2-4 homegirls in there swilling up all the free ice cream and boudin links they could stuff their faces with.

LSU had a contract with River Roads Coffee to only serve their brand in the store. She refused to sell it and only served Community. The River Roads rep comes in one day and is pissed when he tastes the coffee and finds out it's not RR. She threw an all out tantrum and chased him out of the store when he confronted her; an hour later he returns with someone higher up the LSU food chain and they slap her on the wrist and asure RR rep that this will not happen again- but of course it did.


I quit after a couple of months there and the experience left me with a very pessimistic view about the University, who they hire, and how they handle mismanagement.

In college I worked as a cook at a French restaurant and my boss was a French batard who was arrogant as all hell (aren't they all). I remember one day in particular he was on a tear from hell and it got to the point where everytime he would walk through the kitchen, I would ball up my fist and think to myself, ONE WORD! One freakin word more and he is going to sleep and I am going to jail. A few weeks after that, we were playing a HUUUGE football game against usc, and he made me work that day. I came in and worked a couple hours, then about an hour before gametime, said FUGGIT!-- quit on the spot and went home and watched the game.

A few years ago I worked at a small company that started out fine but quickly deteriorated. My first clue should have been when a manager said he was proud that no secretary lasts longer than 8 months. The boss had so many people suckling at the teeth and put a lot of pressure on the staff to make more and more money, which was fine. What wasn't fine was the 80 work weeks for a year straight coupled with constantly being yelled at for everyone else's mistakes ok top of never getting a raise. Boss was a textbook definition of "do as I say, not as I do" and I couldn't get out of there fast enough.