The only bad one I had was your typical run-of-the-mill power-tripping asshole manager at a Best Buy I worked at back when I was in high school.
The manager was always condescending, and treated everyone like shit (even customers). He constantly ranted about how we were terrible sales associates because we actually listened to the customer and made suggestions based on what they needed, rather than just telling them to buy the most expensive thing we have. I have no idea how the guy managed to keep his job.
my last boss was the most usless ass I have ever worked with, to go through his many faults would take too long and bore people, but the worst thing he did was undo his trousers.
Every day when he got into work he would take his jacket off, undo his belt and trousers top button and sit down.....
I had an awful boss once who lived in a threesome with two other employees so naturally they got very favorable treatment. The worst thing was that one of the people in that threesome got a promotion that they were legally too young for.
On the tills too any mistakes were docked out of your wages, including coupons with zero value. However, the whole system was quite complicated with three different tills at any time with different payment systems and a bunch of customers who would go well out of their way to screw you over with fake notes, checks and coupons.
I was good on the tills, even took in 6 grand in one day, so I generally got left alone and stayed out of his way, but still, I really felt stressed with his nepotism and confrontational management style.
I worked at a rental company washing cars one summer. The head boss was a pretty cool guy but way too laid back. One of my coworkers who just thought she was above everyone else was a complete fucking pain in the ass. She was a racist and hated new people, so who shift was she on? The three newest peoples (myself included) one of whom was black. Things kept escalating until the point where she conspired to get the black employee fired by messing with his cars and fucking everything up for him. I complained to the head boss about it and although he believed me and didn't fire the black employee nothing happened to that horrible excuse for a person.
I also worked at AT&T for a while in over the phone tech support and while most of my direct bosses in the call center were at worst alright I have to say 'fuck you' to their bosses who ran the call center. Call centers are the most counter productive cesspools of inefficiency the world has ever produced. Reps who actually take the time to figure out and fix every customer's issue are actively punished while brain dead morons who just fuck things up even more are celebrated. They care about call length and that is it. We were trained to look for the first possible chance to transfer and send the customer on their way. Being absolutely broke all the time is actually better than working that hellish job.
...Huh, there may have been a few things I need to get off my chest.
I lost my job at a movie gallery a couple years back now. The store closed down unfortunately, but at the same time I'm rather grateful as the two bosses I had were horrid.
Not as people. They were very nice people and I liked them both. Just not as my boss.
First we had...Meanie will call her. Meanie was an alright person. She was overly blunt and I respected that she didn't take shit. Problem was that any time any one came to her with a concern, it counted as shit in her book. She didn't really care about anyone else's problems. I once went to her and I told her that I needed more hours. I had always gotten the least amount of hours, which was fine, I was in college and since I still lived with my parents I had financial support. Then my parents decided to help me get a car and it's like "Well I have a job, I can afford to start paying off a car." Meanie's reply to my predicament was "You're free to seek employment elsewhere."....She was also notorious for leaving work early, going on lunch breaks and not clocking out, and giving everyone else work that is supposed to be hers.
Well Meanie stepped down and in her place was...Unexperienced. Unexperienced was a fellow co-worker of ours. She's a fairly nice person and as a co-worker we got along very well. Then she became manager and realized how deep into the shit she had gotten herself and started to take it out on us, telling us one thing and then telling her bosses another...it was a clusterfuck. Then one day she wanted EVERYONE to be at the store at 8 in the morning and she wanted us to stay until 5:30 that evening. At the time we were getting new district managers nearly every week and they all wanted things different. We were told that the district manager would be coming so we needed to clean up. To help Unexperienced was another manager from another town.
I was there, bright and early, I didn't want to be, but I was. I did my work like everyone else. Trying to be helpful and do good work. It was getting close to 5:30 and Unexperienced was upset because it was taking a long time to pretty much clean and reorganize EVERYTHING in the store, while still trying to run business. The manager from another town helping Unexperienced said that she would make her workers stay until 3 in the morning if she had to. I promptly said "I can't do that. I have homework tonight and I have a test tomorrow at school." (note that I was going to a school 2 hours away. I got up at five in the morning to get to class on time and was there until 5 in the evening, usually didn't get home until at least 7 at night and she knew this.)
The manager helping Unexperienced told Unexperienced something to the effect of "when my employees tell me that I just say you can either work or go to school." That's complete bullshit if I ever heard it as most people have to work to go to college...but Unexperienced seem to take this to heart and started verbally attacking me about how much more "important" it was for me to be helping her and the store out...yes the store where my manager doesn't want to give me hours compared to the college that I pay thousands of dollars to attend and can have a serious determining factor of where my life will end up...hmmm what to choose...She kept attacking me until I ended up in tears...and the best part...SHE DID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORE in front of my fellow employees and CUSTOMERS!!
Being a dishwasher, it's bound to happen. I feel for ya, that job is incredibly shitty. When someone comes at you with the slightest bit of negativity, it'll put you over the edge.
Well, I work at a McDonalds at the moment, and it's really not that bad. My managers are all awesome and are on my side. Except for one... But we seem to have come to an understanding of eachother.
Long story short, she yelled at me twice (for reasons and mis-understandings completely un-fair) and got me SUPER pissed off, and I'm far from the type to take shit from people. So, without even any form of concern for my job, I yelled back, even said "sorry for trying to be a little fucking considerate". She made me feel like ass in-front of staff and customers. I then went to the good owner of the store that liked me and explained the situation. I told him the first time that I wanted this to stop, and I eventually talked to the manager who yelled. She completely wrote me off though, and clearly had no interest in listening to my words of trying to reason with her. After the second time, I went to the owner again and said something among the lines of "I will not stand for this, and I refuse to accept that she can get away with this".
In the end, she never fucked with me again, and we even have a good laugh together. I still don't like her and prefer working when she's not there, but at least I can expect fair behavior. She's still a ***** though, but she seems to be improving. I haven't heard any yelling or (clearly intentionally hurtful) blaming on other co-workers, so I guess she got her shit sorted out, and I'm glad.
Every other boss/manager I've ever had has been awesome to me, so I kinda handled this one a little worse than I should have. But I demonstrated that she can't expect everyone to deal with her shit. (my co-workers complained about her and never like working with her). I guess standing up for myself worked.
Mine is not is much an asshole as much as he is a simple fucking idiot. he has fire 9 people over the last yhear for not doing work despite having done the work he said they had not done at least 4 day and as much as 71 days before he call them as slacking off. They have all got their jobs back within 48 hours but he constantly yells at people for this.
He is unfortunately one of those family hires you can not fire and now make about 25% less than the average employee all of who have learned they have enough dirt on him to get away with all the insults we throw at him, or we have simply done what he claim we have not and can prove it.
You guys want to hear a story about a boss I had? Sit back, this is quite the tale.
I had a boss who wasn't even my boss when I started, he was basically the 'second in command', not sure what the actual term for his position was, an assistant manager, I suppose, in like his forties. He wasn't the nicest guy, he was pretty surly and I had heard some nasty stories that he may have even talked ill of one of my fellow employees that he hated, making fun of the fact that many important people in his life had died. It was a group of about 6 people in their early twenties working for an older woman, late sixties or early seventies. She was a little slow at the job and you'd occasionally hear the same story but for the most part she could handle the job. Beyond that though, she was wonderful, she was just really nice and always thanked her employees at the end of the day. Over the course of the first months I worked there, I became aware of the assistant manager's silent bid for power. He played slow and steady mind games against our boss.
Eventually culminating in moving everything in the office around when she left on a vacation and then acting like nothing had changed when she came back. Obviously she was confused by this but tried adjusting instead of just moving it all back because she was too nice to fight about it. Through this confusion though, she kept messing up and he kept calling her out on every little mistake. It all got too stressful for her, so she quit, which in the long run was probably good for her, I'm sure she is happy now, being a nice grandma. This of course meant the other dude took over though, I swear...
It got bad, to the point where nobody really liked him, even the ones who used to before he took charge. There was always a new plot, he was always scheming at something. At one point he looked into personal information of mine so he could essentially blackmail me into coming in on a certain day. More and more bad traits came to the surface, his behavior around the women became pretty questionable. Once he was in charge, no more men were hired in, only girls. So it eventually became a bunch of girls and me, one lone man, I did a lot of heavy lifting. The mistake he made though was when you don't have an even balance of girls and guys, you create this unholy union, girls will plot on you and while I did my best to stay out of all drama...they plotted. Eventually after blowing up about something, a couple of the girl voiced their complaint to HR, all the questionable things he did started to come up. A good example would be when he mentioned how if he became a pimp, the girls would make a lot more working for him, this is just one of many off-handed remarks.
However you put it, the 'charges' didn't hold and things got worse, it was really awkward. He made things really hard on our supervisor, who was awesome. He'd take time off wherever he could, forcing our supervisor to have to come in, off his important job to man our section. He'd also managed to teach one of the girls basically everything he needed to do, so he could reduce his workload to just enough to appear needed. I'd finally had enough and found a good time to quit, I'd gotten what I needed from the job and it was no longer worth working it. Near the end he seemed to try to buddy up to me a little bit more, as if part of him had seen the mess he created but I was gone, my decision was long since set in stone.
More recently, I heard from a buddy who worked in the same building that my old boss was actually stealing from the place as well, I won't get into the nature of it. Anyway, I guess he got pinned to the wall and either ended up getting fired or quit to avoid getting fired.
I had a boss that was getting pissed that some of the biscuits werent done cooking when i was workin at mcdonalds, and that we had someone waiting on them, regardless of the fact that we had just had a customer come in at the moment when we start making them so he'd have to wait. So the boss got pissed and threw them off the oven and onto the floor, yelling at us to get it done, we then told him that that was the last of the biscuits and he ruined the order.
The managers at the department story I work at are pretty good for the most part. They're nice... Maybe a little too nice, particularly to customers. My managers rarely take the staff's side when customers are being jerkasses or asking us to override policy. They also tend to make me look like an idiot when I tell a customer that I cannot do something (like allowing a return without a receipt or a return for a purchase past the return period) and then they ask to speak to a manager and then they allow the policy to be overridden.
My managers are great, they just cave to customer demands too much, is all.
I can deal with a mean boss. I can't deal with an inept boss.
One of my first jobs was for a newly opened gaming store. Problem is, the people running it had done absolutely no research into running a business and picked entirely the wrong location... expensive rent, in an area mostly full of lawyers and doctors. The building was terrible, and they hired their friends as the first round of management and staff.
6 months later they hire me to run a market stall designed to get rid of the massive amounts of unsaleable stock... but, despite it being a flea market, they refuse to let me drop the price below RRP. Nobody is going to a market to buy expensive miniatures.
A few months later that idea is pulled, but they bring me back to work in the store. At that point all the staff are local gamers, and we all really want the place to work. The owners keep their day jobs but insist on everything going through them... bills start to pile up, orders get un ordered, and the place slowly starts to go to shit as the owners have no time to deal with things and give us no authority to do it ourselves.
One day, we get to work and find the place has had the locks changed. The rent hadn't been paid for two months, and our pay didn't come through for that month. Worst of all, the belongings of the members of the on site gaming club, in lockers in the basement, were also claimed and nobody was able to get them back from the landlord, as the lease stated that all contents are forfeit in lue of rental payments.
Nobody heard from or saw the owners again, nobody got their pay, or belongings. Six months later some of us managed to buy back our own belongings at an auction.
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