re: Worst Boss You Ever Had?

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Worst Boss You Ever Had?

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Ironically the worst boss I ever had was initially the best boss I ever had. That quickly changed.

I started working at LSU in 2012 and my boss was a bit awkward but very nice and accommodating. I thought, "wow, he's a great boss". My work required a ton of out of state travel which was fun and nice before kids but once the wife got pregnant, I asked for a local territory. I didn't ask for anyone in particular's territory, though. I only asked to be considered if one were to become available. He flat out told me that there was one local area run by a co-worker of mine who was having some very private health issues causing her to miss a ton of work and that he was working with his boss to see if they could fire her. That alone would've been way more info than I needed to know but he continued to specify what her health issues were (some of these she had already volunteered to the office and some were very personal female-related problems that she never volunteered to us). I never divulged the health issues that she didn't tell us to any of my coworkers out of respect for her and because I, myself, didn't want to get fired. That was none of my business and I was very uncomfortable with how I found out. She ended up quitting soon and I got the territory. I always felt dirty having that territory even though I had nothing to do with it.

He also always told us that once we were there for a year we were eligible for a promotion but the rule was that we had to be there for at least a year. A co-worker and I who both were hired at the same time killed it in our first year. Surely we were going to get a promotion, we thought. Well we didn't. My co-worker was very upset but I took it in stride. I figured maybe I just thoughtI killed it but from my boss's perspective apparently I didn't. Try harder for next time, I told myself.

Shortly after, another co-worker who had been there for only 9 months got a promotion and my boss literally announced to the entire team that the reason she got a promotion was because another employer had approached her to work for them. "You do whatever you can do to keep good people" my boss told the entire team while announcing her promotion. Hmm, so much for the 1 year rule.

After that it was downhill in a hurry. I don't know what I did to him but he started targeting me in petty ways on an almost weekly basis. He would call me out in meetings for things I was told to do, I would suggest things to do that would make us more efficient and he'd shoot them down in front of everyone then raved about how great of an idea it was when the co-worker who got the questionable promotion suggested the same exact thing a month later. We enacted the suggestion and he got his rocks off on it.

He would also ask females why they had to take off of work when they'd ask for a sick day for a doctor appointment. "What's wrong?", he'd ask, when they'd tell him they had to go to the doctor. You don't ask an employee that -- you damn sure don't ask a female employee that.

The petty targeting towards me by him started to be noticed by my co-workers which made me feel validated because I was wondering if I was just being paranoid. What really got under my skin was when leaders and supervisors from other departments started noticing it and approaching me to ask if I noticed it. That was when I started looking for another job. If supervisors and department leaders were noticing it, it was a big deal. I didn't want to take it to HR, I just wanted out. I knew if I took it to HR, it would get wayyyyy worse for me.

Finally I found another job. On my last day, I made an appointment with his boss's boss (who many on this board know of) and discussed everything with him. I even played a recording on an LSU-owned cell phone of a recorded meeting - recorded on an app we all downloaded specifically to record meetings in case we missed one - where he discussed his step-son's threesome rendezvous to a meeting with multiple female employees.

A month later he was fired. Looking back on it, I do feel a little bad because he was a man who had a family to take care of BUT he kinda deserved it too.

Glad that chapter of my life is over with.

I once had a gay boss that had a thing for turning straight men. I’m team vagina so I would always politely turn down his advances.

I could’ve been a dick about it but he had the power to make my work life hell. He was also an alcoholic, and would come to work reaking of alcohol. He made the company lots of money so it would get overlooked by higher ups.

That all changed when one day he asked me “what that mouth do”. I lost my shite. That was too far and I had to be held back from stomping a mud hole in his chest. Afterwards, he made my work life a living hell until the day I quit. If I ever see this guy again I’m going to be arrested for a hate crime.

You should have filed a sexual harassment suit.

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What factors made them the worst ever?

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His name was Dick.
His mom must of had a premonition.

Matt Morris. /Thread

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The contractor?

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Yup, that one

Angela Bower

If it makes you feel any better, I watched him get knocked out by one of his ‘friends’ outside of the old French Quarter Daquiris on Essen back in the day. T’was glorious

Had a boss that had a chip on her shoulder... I had to write a lot of correspondence for her ... I would submit my work for approval and first draft would come back with changes and strike through in red ink. I would make the changes and resubmit...more corrections. 3rd time always got approved. On several occasions I resubmitted the initial draft on the third try .. And it would get approved. She just seemed like she liked the ability to have that control. Had no sense of humor either