Posted by denised in More sad, hilarious, frustrating and true reader submitted bad boss stories…
I worked for a Jazz Club in Cocoa Beach, Florida. My boss was a 70 year old Astria woman who looked like yoda. She wore the same clothes into work each night yet yelled about having a military press in each employee’s shirt. By 1 am, she was so drunk, coworkers and I have had to give her a ride home. There are countless stories concering Yoda with a mullet. So she can’t sue, I’ll name her Ughla. I think I shall write a book about this past year. Its been disgustingly ridiculous. And belittling…
My boss, LH, is a short Hitler like Bully. He hangs with his Beemer Boys and takes credit for all good ideas and is…
Hey, what about a psychologist who is a flaming Borderline! She promised us the world in this private practice, then turned on us in a public meeting and tried to disembowel us all because we “embarrassed” her in front of a couple of nurses. We didn’t even know what was going on. We both have over 20 years experience apiece as therapists, but this greenhorn decided to tell us both that we didn’t have any skills. Okay. We were ready to resign and she laid us off. Good for her reputation, but we are both stil reeling over the viciousness of her attack. Go figure.
The firm I work for behaves in the same way as Glassmajic described. Despite being a law firm where they should know better (due to the legal ramifications) they insist on making us come in on snow days. Of course, they always say “use your best judgment and don’t do anything dangerous”, but they also dock you your vacation time if you don’t come in, giving you no choice but to take the risk.
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