I already feel like this.

Want to talk about your bad boss on Facebook? Twitter? Anywhere in the public domain where you name names, including your own? You might want to think twice.

A case in Connecticut raises the question. The National Labor Relations Board alleges that a woman was fired by American Medical Response of Connecticut after she dissed her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. American Medical Response is saying that the woman was fired because of complaints about her service levels.

The case was supposed to go to a hearing this past Tuesday but the two sides instead decided to try to hash it out outside of court.

We (obviously) think talking about bad bosses should be America’s next national past-time, but we suggest you do it by using nicknames, pseudonyms, ghost writers and the works, especially if you still work for the company.

If you want more, check out the Fired for Facebook fan page on, you guessed it, Facebook. Apparently it happens to more people than you’d think. Check it out here.

Manwaring at Paul's Big M

Last Friday the EEOC announced that a jury returned a $1.2 million verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the agency on behalf of female employees, many of whom were teenagers at the time of the filing, against Paul’s Big M grocery store in Oswego, N.Y.

At trial, women testified that the company’s general manager, Allen Manwaring, made sexual propositions, described his sex life with the store’s owner Karen Connors and touched and grabbed them in private areas. Perhaps the most shocking detail to come out during the trial is that Manwaring suggested a sexual threesome with one teenage cashier’s mother.

The women also testified that the relationship between Manwaring and Connors, who were engaged, was one of the reasons the store refused to take action in response to repeated complaints.

The EEOC reported that despite evidence of numerous complaints to management and the police the company failed to take necessary steps to stop the harassment.

For more on the case and the verdict, visit click here.

Yahoo Finance has a list of five things your boss won’t tell you. There list includes the fact that they’re probably reading your emails and that they couldn’t care less what current strain of bacteria is ravaging your child’s stomach and therefore don’t want to hear about why you’ve got to leave early to pick him up from daycare (my words not Yahoos.) Read the entire list here.

I’ve decided to add to the list of things your boss knows but will probably never tell you. Here are just a few…

• “Please take this recent college grad and teach her everything you know so that in six months I can get rid of you and pay her half your salary.”
• “When you come into my office and I look up bleary-eyed, it’s because I’ve been playing Solitaire for the past two hours.”
• “If it comes down to you or me, you’re outta here.”
• “I know you can do my job better than I can.”
• “I forgot to take my meds this morning.”

What secrets does your boss think she’s keeping?

From someecards, is this the best termination letter ever? Maybe not, but the reason for termination might be the best we’ve ever read…

While four inches of snow is child’s play for northerners, the southeast, unaccustomed to more than a mere dusting, is paralyzed as a result of a winter storm that crept in overnight.

Despite dire news warnings about hazardous driving conditions, I wonder how many non-essential (anyone who isn’t a doctor, nurse, cop, fire etc.) employees felt obligated to get to work today, not because the world would end if they didn’t show up, but because of an overly demanding boss or the fear of job loss.

I’ve been there more times than I’d like to count. One particularly challenging winter in the northeast with a blizzard threatening, employees congregated around water coolers wondering who would be bold enough to make the first move. Driving home in blizzard conditions is frightening and all of us wanted to beat the storm home. The bosses, who presumably would have to drive home in the same conditions, never budged, and at 5:00pm we ventured out into madness. Thank God all of us made it home alive but not everyone is always that fortunate.

A friend shared a story of a colleague who, fearful of driving to work in hazardous conditions, called her boss to tell her she wouldn’t be able to make it in.  Her boss gave her an ultimatum – report to work or you’re fired. My friends colleague took the warning seriously and unfortunately lost her life driving to work that morning. Read the rest of this entry »

I got an interesting email the other day from a casting company in Southern California. They’re working on a real-life version of the wildly popular “The Office.” The fictional U.S. version of The Office documents the shenanigans of bad boss with a good heart Michael Scott and his team of sidekicks. Here, for example, is Diversity Day at The Office…

The Casting Firm is asking the question, “Would your real life office antics be entertaining to watch?”

CASTING FOR A NEW DOCU-SERIES: A Major Cable Network is seeking midsize offices full of big personalities that can carry a show. Would your office antics be entertaining to watch?

Is there anything coming up in your workplace that would be exciting to watch unfold? Moving offices, restructuring, new owners, new human resource policies, etc?

Are your coworkers the best….or the worst? Do you all get along or are office politics out of control? Is your boss amazing? Incompetent? The real life Michael Scott? We are looking for every kind of story, whether you have the dream job or work in a disaster zone! Tell us about the cast of characters in your workplace, and why you would all make great Television!

Casting for the first season is taking place in Southern California ONLY. So if your office has 10 employees or more and all are legal residents of the U.S., The Casting Firm wants to hear from you.  If you’re interested send your name, contact details, the name of your company, along with photos of you and your coworkers to casting.docuseries@gmail.com. Make sure you include a contact number so someone from their staff can contact you. For more information visit The Casting Firm’s Office Intervention link here.

Good luck!

Disclaimer: Really Bad Boss is not affiliated with The Casting Firm.