The Worst Boss You Ever Worked For

[Willy P]

Hands down, I'm the hardest SOB to work for. I tried to call in sick, I didn't believe myself. Hurt? Suck it up and get to work. Stay late? There is no choice.Tired? Too bad.

I'm such a Richard to work for...

 

[Zee]

The worst boss to work for: Myself...

 

[Willy P]

Exactly Zee. (Zed in Canada)

I had to work 25 hours this weekend- I feel I deserve a day off. I talked to the boss and not happening- gotta go do the halls in a 10 story building, clean a SUV interior and then buff up some floors. I'm really a hard man(on myself)

 

[Desk Jockey]

I'm such a Richard to work for...

I'm a great boss...well.......maybe I'm just great?

 

[hogjowl]

My Dad.

He was just like me.

 

[handdi]

my dad for sure

 

[Shane Deubell]

Been pretty lucky , never had a bad boss. Really only had 1 except for high school type jobs and she was a great boss.

 

[dgardner]

Many years ago a fellow control technician grabbed a wire he thought was dead and it bit him. Yeow! He let go and it fell on a control module circuit board. The module was one of about 30 and they were all hooked together - so one by one in daisy-chain fashion they ALL blew up. Smoke - flames - right out of a disaster movie.

I had a project going where I had installed 36 new control modules but hadn't even turned them on yet. I was going to start up the control system the following Monday. My boss at the time called me and told me to go to my job and tell the customer there had been a factory recall and I would have to ship all his modules back to be "retrofitted" - and I would have them back in a couple weeks. I was then to take the modules to the other tech so he could repair his toasted system. He ordered me to lie right to the customer's face.

I went to the customer and told him the truth - we had blown up a running production system and could I please borrow his modules to repair it? I knew he didn't need the system right away. He said no problem, take the modules.

The manager was canned a couple years later for "creative accounting" - go figure.....

 

[dealtimeman]

Everyone including myself would say : myself

 

[Ron Werner]

Be Glad you're busy Willy

I've worked for some really gruff employers, but in hindsite he treated me fairly.
I've had a manager at a dept store cleaning company that was an idiot, trying to teach me how to clean uph and as he's cleaning he says he would never clean this way for his own customer.
Myself? I just push myself and bulldog through jobs. I won't take a break, or like Willy, if I have to I'll just keep going when ill or hurt. Works gotta get done.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I work for several bosses daily.

 

[bob vawter]

non of yous MF's has EVER worked for me........now i know i sound lik a nice easy goin' type guy on here an' all........but really i'm the biggest prick around....ask CRASH (fired him 3 times ) or the one before him that bent my basketball pole.......i ran behind him kicking his ass all the way to the street......and if you called in sic.......i BETTER see some puke in a bag.......easily me...no question!

 

[Derek]

2 months outta high skool i went to work for my future bro-in-law, his brother & their german father...family operated brick masons. he was the meanest (in hindsight 1 of the coolest most interesting) ppl i worked for, for 5 years until he died. he bullied me into submission real quick. we had to build a foundation for a brick pier on a new home. had to tie the new foundation into the existing foundation with some re-bar. i'm down 5' below the ground holding a 4' long masonry chisel and Cornelius is standing above me on ground level. he wants me to hold the chisel while he smashes it with a sledge hammer and my hands are right next to the top. he screams at me until i do it in fear...1 miss and my wrists are crushed. 8-10 swings...he had good aim. i don't remember much about the rest of that day. i used to hate him, a few years later i missed him and grew to value his various traits. he taught me what hard work was, can't wait to see him again.

 

[ruff]

All the above responses clearly show that none of you busterds has ever been married

 

[Ed Valentine]

Who was the worst BOSS?

Well, we ALL WORK FOR the Government, don't we? They always put more and more demands on small businesses..........................................................I'll let anyone guess what my answer would be on this one.

 

[Desk Jockey]

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I worked in a union dairy processing plant in maintenance.

The plant mgr was very incompetent as were many of the union workers. It was hard to keep my mouth shut seeing all of the terrible decisions made just to cover their mistakes and laziness.

They were each doing things to sabotage the other, and the customer was the eventual victim. An operator would drop a towel into a Purepak machine chains knocking it out of time. My immediate supervisor in maintenance and the plant mgr let their little feud cost Flavorich $15k for that incident alone. They called a specialist to fly in to fix the bogus problem.

Meanwhile I'd retimed and tested the machine and had it running that night. My boss and the plant manager were extremely mad...at ME, and threatened me to keep quiet.

I didn't. In the fallout they closed that plant and fired the manager. A few, myself included, were offered jobs at one of their other plants.

I imagine that whole experience has been repeated often in American industry.

 

[Desk Jockey]

That's pathetic.

Good for you Lee for not standing for it.

 

[Mikey P]

My very first job was as a gas pump attendant.

I was fired at the end of the first day for "lack of enthusiasm when washing windows"...





That bastard crushed my spirit.

 

[Desk Jockey]

"lack of enthusiasm when washing windows"...

 

[Zee]

My very first job was as a gas pump attendant.

I was fired at the end of the first day for "lack of enthusiasm when washing windows"...





That bastard crushed my spirit.

Yet you still ended up in the washin'/shampoo'n biddness

 

[Lee Stockwell]

If only we could find that guy.

He could be another speaker at ICE.

 

[dgardner]

My very first job was as a gas pump attendant.

I was fired at the end of the first day for "lack of enthusiasm when washing windows"...





That bastard crushed my spirit.

Do they even have gas pump attendants any more?

 

[Mikey P]

only in Oregon.

 

[QDCC-Barry]

My very first job was working at a Pizza place as a16 yr old. The owner, an old Italian guy, was gruff and just was not a people person, which is kinda weird for being in a customer service type biz. After working there several months, and in my estimation doing a damn good job, he called me over to talk one day. He went on to explain to me that I was doing a good job and "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" and so I was getting a raise.

He then gave me a 10 cent an hour raise.

 

[Desk Jockey]

He then gave me a 10 cent an hour raise.

Probably pretty good for a Pizza place.

 

[Clean Response]

When I worked in a pizza store the only time I got a raise was when the min was bumped up I think from $4.15 to 4.25. I was the owner kid too; go figure.

 

[Zee]

, he called me over to talk one day. He went on to explain to me that I was doing a good job and "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" and so I was getting a raise.

He then gave me a 10 cent an hour raise.

Wheeehw...at this point I'm glad you got the 10 cent and that was it...I was reading it and started getting that eeeeewww feel that you get, when the story goes: so I walked in his office and he tells me to scratch his back and removes his shirt, while proceeding to stand up from behind his desk...only to reveal that he already has removed his pants... Etcetera...

 

[dgardner]

I remember when I worked at a body shop right out of high school. I was told I was getting a raise from 200 a week to 210 (if I remember right ). My next check was a Penny less than I had been getting because it put me in a higher tax bracket......

 

[Desk Jockey]