TUESDAY

Mean boss, incompetent boss, sexist boss, drunk boss, crazy boss, penis boss? Time to brag and share!

I just left a boss from hell. He was controlling, inept and less competent than I am. He attempted to sabotage me from the minute I got in the door. He was giving my team members direction contrary to best practices (which is what I was providing) and not telling me about any of these side conversations. He held onto a bunch of invoices that, when processed, put the project in red. (Which I was told was in a green status when I interviewed). Not only had he unethically held onto invoices so that he was not linked to a project going red, but he made many mistakes in the spreadsheet that tracked the burn rate on the project. (1/2 million in errors) I unknowingly walked into this mess and received absolutely no guidance on how to handle seeking additional funding, etc. The things he should have been doing became a high priority with me with no responsibility being taken by him for the mess he had left behind. (Did I mention that I was taking his place, was more experienced and he told someone he felt threatened by my level of experience?)

When I asked if I could work from home like others, he said no. When I needed to travel to other offices, he wanted to know my every move. I asked for a flat screen monitor like even the interns had and received a 1985 model monitor. I asked to have my $120 professional association fees paid and he denied it. I asked if I could pursue a further professional designation and he said if I did go after it, to make sure he knew because he would too. How insecure!!

He was such a jerk!! I can't even begin to list all the things he did that were wrong. Worst boss ever!!! I left amidst some made up scandal and left that very day. I just couldn't take it another day. Reading other people's stories has provided me someone virtual to relate too...hope some can gain some solace from my story. There are better opps and better bosses out there - I know there are. I do believe in Karma...so in time, he will get his due. Believe in yourself, as I must, and look to a brighter future that does not include the boss from hell.

Worse job I ever had, the one I just left! :)
Actually the worse one was when I had just graduated
from 2 yr college and couldn't find a job, running out
of money, etc. I worked for Coca-Cola for one day, that's
all I could take. The plant was in Cocoa, Florida and it
was the middle of July which means hot as Hell. Me and
this other dude started at 10:00am sorting returned bottles
outside in the sun. We spent a few hours doing this while
being badgered by the boss for taking water breaks. Then
we got to go into the warehouse where we had to load up
pallets with cases of soda. Of course the warehouse was
not air conditioned and of course the boss badgered us for
taking water breaks. By the end of the evening, 10:00pm my
arms were going into spasms from the lifting. Next day I
couldn't get out of bed I was so sore. I called and quit
and told them they didn't even have to send me the paycheck,
probably was only about $25 anyway.

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At the beginning of summer long ago my friend and I applied to the city maintenance department. He landed a cush job painting fire hydrants (& taking long naps). I got hired to ride a big mower all day. The bad news was that I was mowing the grounds of the city reclaimation center.. AKA Crapland. It was everywhere. There were big bubbling pools of crap, giant sloshing tanks of crap, and even some ponds of thick crap that a tractor would drive through and churn up. On my second day the manager guy called me in and told me that he had a "special job". He introduced me to a couple of the Sewer Rats (thats what they called themselves) who gave me a big yellow raincoat and boots. Faster than you can flush a toilet I was standing at the bottom of a huge empty tank holding a giant water hose. My job was to spray all of the residual poop, prophylactics, papers etc. off the side of the tank and down a drain in the middle. Bits of fecal detrious rained down on me and onto my face. I closed my eyes and kept spraying. Luckily I only had to do that once. Come to think of it, mowing around all that stinky poop in the hot sun all summer wasn't exactly a sunshine daydream either.
-Freddy B

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