re: Worst boss you've ever had?

Sucks working fast food huh?

The worst bosses I have ever had have had one thing in common: ovaries.

The first job I ever had out of college, my boss was very well known in the industry. Hyphenated name narcissist. She knew her stuff, but was a terrible leader. People downright hated her. She worked 18 hour days and expected everyone else to as well. She liked me, so we didn't have problems, but I certainly had a revolving door of complainers in my office.

The worst boss I ever had was this miserable bitch that had just gotten divorced when I started the job. That seems to be a pre requisite for female education administrators.

Longest three years of my life. On top of being incompetent at her job, she hated men. Verbally abused everyone. My wife got pregnant with our first child when I was there. She wanted children and never could have them. She made a big deal out of me taking time off for appointments - made me take vacation time instead of sick leave. I asked HR about the policy and was told that I could take sick leave for it. She "wrote me up" for insubordination (it was thrown out) and I started the job search that eventually led to where I am. The last couple of months were miserable. I put in my two weeks to expire the first Monday after we were off Christmas vacation and felt good about it.

I had a boss that I absolutely hate, still to this day. Company was in mall advertising. So mostly a sales company. I was the only engineer on staff. I designed the networks of LCD screens in the malls that ran ads on them and I managed the IT department.

This guy was the CEO, very arrogant. When I started, we had a really good team but also had a lot of involvement from our parent company. After a couple of years, the parent company sold out and was divided. They still owned us, but no longer had any involvement so the CEO now had full reign of the company and man did he ever screw it up.

First thing he did was instruct the sales people to sell into ad spaces that were already booked. So he wanted to take money from people wanting to advertise, but never actually post their ads for them because the space was already occupied by another client. Theft. He actually said in a meeting that the majority of the people we sold to didn't visit the properties so they wouldn't know. If they did visit and realize their ad wasn't up, we would either refund or offer them something else.
Managers pushed back and told him it was unethical and would get him sued. He didn't care. So several people left as a result.

He also didn't listen to any advice anyone gave him. If he had an idea, it was being forced. Even if you showed evidence that it wouldn't work or lose money.
He spent money like there was no tomorrow. We had an office on Wall St, we had an office 1 block off of Rodeo Dr when there was no actual business need to be located in such expensive buildings. Especially for a company that was only 5 years old and had never turned a single penny of profit.
He was told that these were bad ideas, but he only cared about image.

I was one of the few who would stand up to him. He wanted to put in bluetooth devices that would push ads to peoples phones as they were walking in the malls. He assembled a team to research it and put it all together. I was on that team. We concluded that it was possible but expensive, and advertisers wouldn't pay for it. Also that it would annoy customers in the mall and it was too intrusive.

1 month later I was flying all over the country getting this shite set up. Last number I ever saw, it had $500 in sales after 3 years. That didn't even cover my plane ticket to NY to tell him it was a shitty idea.

Things like this happened constantly. He had heard about some software from a sales person and they sold him on it. He forced me to roll out this software across the entire network without allowing me to test it. Guess what happened? shite didn't work, total bust, and caused nothing but problems. I got bitched at too and I told him to shove it. I wasn't accepting any responsibility for that.

They once had a week long retreat for the executive team out in Phoenix. I was told by the CFO that it turned into a week long bitch session about the CEO and how he was running the company into the ground. The CFO also resigned as soon as they got back as he had enough.

I have stories for days about this guy, it was insane that anyone would ever allow him to run a company.
Ended up, the company was in really bad shape and I was let go so they could outsource my job. I was very upfront and honest with the CEO at that time. I told him I understood that they needed to clear up some revenue due to the state of the finances, but letting me go was going to cost him more because no one knew anything about these networks or the components. I designed a lot of it myself and had it manufactured to my specs.
Within the first 3 months, I was told he had already spent more than my annual salary because people were screwing up these systems. He tried to go cheap and it backfired.

I talked to several people that worked there and they said he knew quickly that he had made a mistake by letting me go. I'm really glad he did let me go. The company is gone now.

Short coke bottle glasses anus from Newfoundland. I've heard the people there are generally anus like.

I disagreed with my last boss on something and ended up being right. He held a grudge. I didn't need his approval on anything I did so I just kept doing my work. He wouldn't say good morning or speak to me. It was incredibly childish.

He waited until the Friday before Christmas and fired me. And he didn't do it himself. He had the new guy do it.

Anyway before I left I deleted the 3 months of work I had done. Frick that guy. I have a great job with a sane boss now.

Gabe

was the worst boss i ever had. He earned the nickname Weasel.

I had a boss who was qualified on paper and a good asskisser but threatened by anyone who knew what they were doing and were smarter than him.

When the best worker in our small office went out with cancer for a few months, his bullshite went into overdrive and ended up causing me a severe panic attack in a meeting to the point where I was ready to quit to get away from him.

Turns out that another division wanted me and got me within a month of that but he gave me a bad rating on my way out to mess with my status.

I've worked in that division over a decade now and have been far happier with bad bosses here because I know that it can't get worse than where I used to be.

My boss was a Division VP and was being assigned to a new position. He brought the new VP in for a meeting to introduce the new VP to my people. Before the meeting with my people I meet with my outgoing VP and the new one. The outgoing VP had written a formal probation notice for me. The main issue was something I had no control over was part of a contract that was signed before I was in that position. I never saw this coming. During the conversation he also stated that I might be too honest for someone in my position. I looked directly at the new VP and asked if he heard that remark. The new VP said he had. I told the outgoing VP to include that remark in the paperwork or I wouldn't sign it. He wouldn't and I refused to sign. Within the hour I called his boss who I had previously worked for. He didn't know anything about it. He said they would discuss when they were both back in the home office. A couple of days later I got a call from his boss who told me that the probation letter had been shredded and that my old VP was being sent to "charm school". I didn't ever find out exactly what that meant but I did find out that several other managers had complained about him. He eventually left the company but stayed in the industry. We crossed paths several times and he was always cordial.

I worked in IT at a higher ed institution. The Director resigned and one of the Provosts "knew a guy".

Hell ensued. He was an academic toying around in IT. An obese, horny, diabetic, corrupt, racist.

Fell off a chair in the inner computer room trying to get a better look at the smoking hot receptionist down the hall.

Interviewed for my position (Exec Manager)under false pretenses of hiring another Manager. I headed the interview committee. One applicant the committee decided to interview we were not able to reach via phone, email, etc. I happened to stay late on a Friday afternoon, and viola, she appeared in my boss' office. Later learned he intended to replace me with her. Her resume was garbage but the committee wanted to interview her.

He spent money on a ton of stuff we could not afford or even use. He set up a Taj Mahal office. His boss (VP) constantly chastised him for over spending.

Viagra littered his desktop as he scoped out the talent on campus.

Lesson for everyone. Never stop doing your job. I later learned he visited the VP's office and trashed me and my staff as idiots. The VP (she) vouched for us as always doing a good job and supporting the institution well. My staff and I had years of experience before this clown showed up.

Later learned he confided in another black IT worker he wanted the shop to be all-black. NWA.

The guy embezzled personal items (printer cartridges, computer equipment, etc.) he ordered for his home and his family.

He called a meeting with the institution's upper management and trashed the living hell out of my staff and me yelling and screaming trying to intimidate. The other execs were on to him by now and did not believe a word of his rantings and later expressed sympathy to me and my staff. I was hoping he would vapor lock that day. I know that sounds bad, but he made my women staff members cry. My VP (rip) was the hero as she vouched for me and stood up for my staff.

I've always had awesome bosses, but the last boss I worked for was horrendous. Everyone in the office was on edge when he was around. Everyone was stressed out, trying to out produce each other, and he would berate employees in front of everyone. Dude would stomp around the office like he owned everyone and we were lucky to be working for him. Pretty sure the dude was bi polar and a little autistic -- he would flip his shite over something small and then calm down a half hour later and act like nothing happened. He did that at least 3-4 times daily.

And this is a boss for a gigantic fortune 500 company. I have no fricking idea how that is allowed to manage people. What a miserable POS