re: Worst Boss You Ever Had?

The one woman boss I had was the absolute worst. She was the most manipulative, back stabbing count I even met. It was a temporary situation, but she was a miserable person.

Long story short, I was switching jobs. The job I was going to had a huge project coming up and I was hired to be on the project, but there was about 10 months between when I started and the project started.

I was informed about it and told that there was a department in the Houston office that was branching into the BR office and asked if I would be okay working in there because it was only going to be one person from Houston moving to BR at first. And there were other people who needed things done so there were more than enough hours on different projects I can bill to.

When I started I was helping people out on different projects. About a month later the department that was branching in the BR office moved their one person. The manager wanted to talk to me. Out of all the departments she was the only female department head so I don't know if she felt the need to let the male department heads know that they can't push her around or what, but it was safe to say, at least as for as her job was concerned, she hated men.

I don't think I ever met someone who truly hated the opposite sex until I met her. She pretty much started a war with the managers in the BR office. Then about two months before the project I was hired to be on started she tried to fire me, which I knew she couldn't do, but she had it out with the manager who would be over that project and after I pretty much told the president at the west Virginia office to go frick himself (who she was close to) she was trying to kill two birds with one stone by firing me. It ended up blowing up in her face.

But this count's department was losing jobs and was worried her budget would get cut so she hired 2 new people to give the impression they were about to be busy. She convinced a woman who had been at her job for 24 years to come work for her and 3 months later she had to let her go. That's the type of person she was and I can't image ever having to work under someone like her again.

I was just thinking of three 10th Mountain Division Commanders; Hagenbeck, Austin, and Freakley.

The first boss I had at my current company years ago was awesome and the standard by which I measure subsequent managers.

My current manager has been the worst. He has the team work on various things and then presents the docs and ideas as his own while not allowing team members to be part of those discussions. He has favorites who are not good workers but masterful suck-ups and refuses to criticize them or hold them accountable.

We recently did employee surveys and I guess people really let him and his boss have it. He called a meeting and said how the responses were humiliating for them and that we should go to them if we have a complaint. Yeah, right.

Ironically, we seem to work harder now because we realize that’s the best way to get him promoted and out of the team.

My worst product is delivered when I’m the boss of myself. Guess it’s me

David Short from Denver. If I ever see him again I’ll rip his arms off and beat him to death with the bloody stumps. When he was so hard to deal with, I took all his emails to a psychiatrist and paid the guy for his opinion. Came back and said it’s personal and he hated me but couldn’t pinpoint why. I enjoyed f’n with him after that.

Keith Simpson, a sociopath.
Would rather climb a pole and tell a lie than sit and tell the truth.

Captain in the Navy while on a staff tour. I knew him in the fleet when I was a FNG and he was a Lt Cmdr. He was okay at his job but you could tell he wanted to climb the ladder. Fast forward 8 years and he is my boss in a staff job(which suck already) but he made it 10x worse.

I've had micromanagers and mentally fricked people over me, but don't reckon I've ever had a bad true boss. But I've had an evil coworker that thought she was boss. I thought about killing her everyday at one point. Literally killing her.

Me. I’m a real dickhead.

What club in the Fort?