What's the worst boss you've ever had?

Probably this one who never came into work because she was a drunk. She also would edit her hours on the computer, not only saying she worked full time, but also giving herself over time.

Ouch. I’m sorry to hear about that. That definitely tops my boss.

I do have to admit, I enjoy torturing my boss by doing something that will piss him off without him knowing it’s me. He turns really red and goes off on people, it’s hilarious. He always comes back and apologizes, and he always gets really close to me when he talks like he’s trying to press his lips to my ears. It’s kinda creepy.

age 14, i worked at burger king for a while. my boss was in his 30’s and had been working there since he was 15. used to raise his voice all the time over nothing. would try and scam me out of my wages and all kinds of crap, i ended up pouring a large cup of chip fat over him for his troubles.

Hahahaha, excellent!

I worked at a restaurant last year where the boss cheated me out of my tips, the food was like $13 per meal and I had to actually pay full price for a meal or I couldn’t eat. Didn’t get a lunch break on like 10 hour shifts, and after about a month, I called him and said, “F**k this shit! I quit!”

I ate a lot of Tiramisu there though, cause the cook and I would agree to not tell on one another when we stole food to eat. :)

About ten years ago I worked as a graphic designer for a big event design company. It was run by a husband and wife team. The clients and the gig was amazing. Unfortunately the husband and wife were really unstable.

He was very nice, but quite the alcoholic who was petrified of his wife and would disapear for days on end.

She was prone to massive temper tantrums (screaming at the top of her lungs, throwing things around the studio) and would cry at the drop of a hat. The littlest things would set her off like a switch. Extremely volatile.

They were out of State once setting up a play we had designed the sets for when they just didn’t return. They stopped paying everyone and disapeared.

Myself and the project manager just sent everyone home one day and locked the joint up.

Yeesh… I don’t want to eat at your boss’ restaurant!

I’ll just copy and paste my worst boss response from another question. (Please forgive my laziness).

Oh yeah. Not only was he a complete asshole, but he was disgusting in every way. -He was racist.
-He was sexist.
-He talked about his former sex life with his ex.
-He bragged about violently shaking his girlfriend’s autistic son to get through to him.
-He lied. He lied to cover lies, hurting me and my career.
-He scrubbed his teeth and braces with a dry toothbrush all day long and kept the toothbrush laying around random places in his office. You had to watch where you put your things.
-His office smelled like sausage and cologne.
-When I told him I would be taking maternity leave, he said I would not have a job with him if I tried to come back.
-He told me that my upcoming maternity leave was making him physically ill.
-He couldn’t so much as figure out how to work his email account.
-He referred to himself as the “King of Baltimore” and said when he worked in Vegas that he was the “King of Vegas.”
-He mentioned multiple times that he didn’t think my husband and I could afford our baby. The hilarious thing is that he didn’t make much more than my husband at the time.

There were many things that lead up to me leaving. The day I quit, I had just had enough. He accused me of doing something that I didn’t do. There was a misunderstanding between me and the girl who held my position before me. It was harmless. Nobody was harmed or even inconvenienced, yet this ex-boss of mine raged for hours about it. He blew through my office, dumping papers on the floor, looking through the files on my computer; he just couldn’t believe that it was a simple misunderstanding.

Finally, after ranting for about 3 hours over something that did not matter, he went to his boss’s office and shut the door and began yelling some more. I called my husband and asked if he thought it was ok that I quit that day, instead of two weeks from then, when I was supposed to be on leave. He said “yes” so I went to my office and collected my things and left.

When I got home, there was a message on my phone begging me to come back. I didn’t. I felt awesome. I’m not usually one to leave someone hanging, even if I don’t like the job or something, but this bastard fully deserved it.

February 1997. A coworker became my boss.
Over the next 9 months, he was the horror story to scare everyone over a campfire.
He raped a co-worker, took pictures of it, then showed off the pictures to the crew! We had to work with the woman who was raped!
When he was ratted out to the EEOC, and the woman involved, he threatened to kill anyone who admitted to seeing the pics, AND HE MEANT IT!
3 people finally owned up to it. The manager was moved (not fired) to another management position where he would not have people working for him. The company covered it up, and the woman who was raped was given a promotion.
What a nightmare.

@filmfann Holy shit, dude! Ok, that’s a bad boss human being.

The sad thing is: that isn’t even the worst thing he did!

Ok, now I’m curious. What could he have possibly done that’s worse than raping a woman and taking pictures of it? Did it involve a child or murder? Wait… maybe I don’t want to know.

@filmfann: You win (er…or is that lose?) Good lord that’s horrible.

But, like @ubersiren, I gotta know…what could have been worse?!?!

@ubersiren Unbelievable! I’m sure it was a big weight off your mind to get out of there.

Years ago I worked in a restaurant and the owner was an alcoholic pill popping whining old bitch who insisted on coming in every evening to hold court with her friends at a large corner table. She would ask for specialty dishes to be prepared for her group our customers would see and want which created a bunch of problems for the wait staff. Imagine seeing gorgeous salads, appetizers and entrees pass you by and then be told they aren’t available to regular customers. She’d come in around 4pm and stay past closing time with her friends and they’d do nothing but eat, drink, demand special treatment and take up space.

The first boss I had at the camera store I used to work at never bathed, never brushed his teeth, never cut his fingernails, never used mouthwash, always smelled, never did work, left everything laying around, lied to customers, had a lazy eye, and ended up having an affair (another interesting point is that we later found out that they were having sex in the area of the store WHERE I WORKED :( ) with and impregnating one of my coworkers who was extremely obese and now has his child, also with a lazy eye.

however i will admit he was fun to work for because we never did anything except fling rubber bands at each other and watch movies and eat popcorn.

@deni LOLLLL…if he was all those gross things, how did he get these women to have sex with him!!!??? That’s a big IKC!!

@jbfletcherfan well, she was kind of bottom of the chain. she was really, really, really, morbidly obese and….im sorry i cant say anymore, i need to spew

@deni LOLLLLLL…..yeah, NOT a good visual! ;-)

@ubersiren Both, in a way.
When we worked together, he would constantly talk about his being a pediphile. It was just awful. Anytime we worked near a school, he would go into this disgusting rant about how he wanted to be just like the Turtle in the kids story (Don’t ask, its disgusting).
At one point, he was sitting in for the boss for one week. He told many people in the yard that he knew exactly how to push the buttons on one of my coworkers (Mike). He told them that he would use this that week to give Mike a heart attack (he had already had 3). On Wednesday afternoon, Mike had another heart attack, and on Thursday, He Who Shall Not Be Named walked around bragging about how he had caused it.

I worked for this guy who was the most distrustful, paranoid, tightwad you would ever hope to avoud. It was a very small company, about 20 people. I was the accountant/office manager/confidential assistant/HR person/general buffer. My duties included ordering office supplies (1. Why do we have to order a whole box of 2 dozen pencils?) to redesigning the compensation program (2. Why are these figures off by a penny?) He even asked me questions to check my ethics. (3. Do you think we should send this purchasing manager a nice TV?)

This is the guy who drove me to teaching.

BTW 1, It’s cheaper and we go through over a dozen pencils a month. 2. Because the program rounds off to the nearest cent 3. No, that would be payola.

@filmfann What the eff is wrong with this person? He needs to be in therapy, or, well jail for what he did to the lady co-worker. Seriously, wtf?

The one that overworked me for below minimum wage and didn’t pay me for two fucking weeks once. I was 15 and a little silly to stay in that situation.

Well when I got a job at Sonic, this is literally how he (my boss) trained me, “Here’s the meat,” he points at the meat, “here’s the condiments” he points at the condiments, “when you feel like you can jump in, do it.” and then he walked away That was literally all the training I received at Sonic.