ever had a terrible boss?
361632
My boss right now is horrible because she is a punk! She lets her assistant basically set her mood for the day, and tell her what to do. I feel that any true leader (boss, supervisor, manager,...etc) should truly lead in their position not be lead.
957005
OMG the funny memory this question dragged up!\nThere was this obnoxious guy that kept groping at my ex-bosses grand-daughter in the bar.  He could not take a hint.  Anyways, we were out with some friends of ours, one of whom was an off duty cop.  We escorted the pig and his friend out of the bar and I must have been feeling invincible with my cop friend and swung at the guy hitting him square in the face.  I dont know who was more shocked, me, him or our friends.  Anyways, his friend was dragging him away as my friends were holding me back.  I can't imagine what on earth possessed me to hit the guy (rum maybe???) but I am glad everyone else had enough sense to let it stop there.
1031376
I have a boss like that also.   I just show up, do my job to the best of my ability.  I have learned to block out the noise of this tyrant.\n\nThe boss is setting a good example of what type of boss and person NOT to be.  Learn from that.\n\nOne day he will either have a stroke or have a heart attack during one of his tirades.
786078
I'm truly sorry this has happened to you.  So, was your boss nice about it, or was she kind of be-little-ing?  You say she made you feel like a small child.  You know, we all have our bad days.  Guess what else?  We ALL make mistakes!  I bet SHE has even made a few mistakes herself.  Try not to feel stupid.  Did you apologize for the mistakes?  If not, do so if you feel you can.  Try so hard to concentrate totally on your job and I think you will be fine.  IF, though, she is not nice about the "writing you up thing" then I'd look for other employment.  Not as a cop out, but sometimes women bosses can be a little...ya know!  what's up with the internet priv. being taken away.  Sounds like a little bit of a power trip to me. Just go in there tomorrow with a smile on your face and confidence about you and have a wonderfully beautiful day!
329427
Rise above it. If she deliberately embarasses you, then she is the problem. Do your work well and professionally. Talk with her and inform her that you would prefer to be told about your mistakes in private so that you could remedy them. Always be professional and job oriented. Bosses hate office politics....Document all incidents that are caused by her, if it continues over a period of time approach the person over both of you. If you are doing your work well, it will show.  If she is the boss, get out now while you still have some self esteem.  Good luck.  Be proactive, not reactive.
448494
I went through this with one boss.  I was so stressed out that I was sick at work, then had a death in the family.  It was an awful time.  In the end, they fired me.  As it turned out, though, they were in the wrong.  Bad on them.\n\nIt can certainly happen.
146452
My worst job experience would take me two days to type up...lol.  But, to make a long story short, I was just out of college for Medical Administration/Assistant and was called by a temp agency to go take "Meeting Minutes" at a Tribe Council meeting for a local group of Native Americans.  \n\nThey DID NOT want me there.  The woman who normally took them was a Native American and they were resentful of everything I did.  They made me sit in a corner for hours until after they had their lunch and did their traditions, then when it came time for the meeting which took place in a huge hall (wedding receptions take place here), they made me repeat everything I wrote down and yelled at me because I wasn't talking loud enough, made me come up to the front of the hall and "yell" the notes out and if I used one word wrong they were very angry.  I was using shorthand and at one point a woman pulled the notebook out of my hand and ridiculed me for not being able to read my own writing because at this point I was choked up and could not repeat esp. loud enough for everyone to hear......ahhhhh.  I still have nightmares.
1116237
very true indeed!\nhow about this,\nwhy are bosses like diapers?\nthey are always on your a** and their full of sh*t.
765691
There have been so many.....\nAt one former job, walking in on my then-boss. It was lunch time (I was working through lunch catching up on paperwork) and I thought he went out for the whole hour. He did go out but only for a few minutes and I didn't see him come back in. In his office (door closed) he changed into a lace teddy and was just putting his uniform back on when I walked in with papers to put on his desk. I blinked and still held onto the papers but when he asked me if I liked his teddy I couldn't find my voice. Then he told me we were all alone in the section, and that he'd always wanted to lick my toes. I got the desk in between him and me and finally when he lunged at me I stapled him, threw the papers at him and left the office. I didn't go into his office again for anything. It was my first job and I never worked for the military again. He was a Major, known by my friends after this as Major Pervert.\nThere are other things I've caught people doing, but none that took my breath away quite like seeing someone built like John Goodman (only uglier) in a satin teddy and combat boots!
1145035
Yes he is the worst. And we have had some bad ones
426886
Once, this morning, I realised that my work computer was missing. It had clearly been taken by one of my housemates, so I did a dump on their bed, and rubbed it in a bit, and I dropped some scabs in their porridge.\n\nImagine my embarrassment when I got work only to be reminded that I was sacked last week for doing a dump on my boss's desk, and that I had been forced to hand over my computer at that point.\n\nWe had to laugh. Well I did, my housemates haven't come home yet.
1116673
Not bad at all where I work, but then again almost all our bosses are totally cool. But I've been places where people flat out tell their boss "F--k You", and nothing happens to them. Weird....
668681
My boss used to love to pick on me. She made fun of my hair "Dont you own a hairbrush?" my pants "It's not Christmas time, why are you wearing velvet pants to work?" my shirts "Dont you own an iron?" and my voice "You need to be peppy when you answer the phone, you sound like you just rolled out of bed" (i have a deep voice, some say sexy) my Armani glasses "You look like an old grandma with those thick frames" and my brain, when i couldnt fix her 1980's fax machine "Well, youre just stupid, thats why you cant fix it" and screamed like a psycho because i forgot one week to water her five million plants in the office and the leaves were turning brown. She was a big fat pig with alot of money and paid me 7 bucks an hour to be her assistant (office slave) Of course I quit after a few months.
991674
I hated an ex-boss-\nHe thought that since I was young/blonde/female I was stupid and he hated the fact that I was intelligent and not home barefoot and pregnant where "women belong".\n\nTo get back instead of slapping him, I had to book his flight from Ohio to Japan (10 hours) - when I booked it I requested an aisle seat in Coach (please note he is an exec.used to flying in 1st class), with a vegetarian meal, and I made it clear to the booking agent that he was a "recovering alcoholic" and that he was NOT to have any alcoholic beverages on the plane no matter how irate he got....\nNeedless to say when he landed the next morning he called me an asked why his seat had all these stipulations- I played dumb blonde- LOL- He so deserved it!
249824
It depends how bad you need the job, but if you have options, call him/her on it.  When he is cruel, tell him you do not deserve to be treated that way.  When he is self-serving (show me a boss that isn't), don't make it easy on him.  When he is lazy, tell him you are simply too busy to do trivial tasks and ask if he could please do it.  Bottom line:  Stand up for yourself!  He will respect you more if you stand up for yourself then if you roll over in submission.
1007091
I POOPED AT WORK ONCE\n\nIT SCARED MY BOSS THEN HE TOLD ME I WAS SICK\n\nONE TIME AT MY MODELING JOB FOR A SWIMSUIT COMPANY I FARTED AND EVERYONE HEARD IT  LOL
194888
I have been mistreated and dumped on with work and gossipped about because I was for the most part joyful and happy. People at times were blantanly mean to me.\n\nI used to cry all the way home from my job, I was stressed and overworked, my marraige was suffering befre this my husband could not understand what was so stressful about being a receptionist and clerical person?\n\nI was threatned by the callers cursed out and called vicious names because "they did not get a check or a bill "and because they did not get what they wanted like a two year old child temper tantrumed to me all day long and I received any where from 200 plus calls a day.\n\nI spoke with my supervisor who is a guy and even though I told him I did not want to be the receptionist any longer\nand my reason was to get a head and do well that was not the only reason I was tired and I did not want to "play any more meaning" this job wore me out that I was mentally and emaiotnally exhausted and I just did not want to be receptionist anymore.\n\nI know am in the business 12 years and moving up as hard as it was was the best thing I did I handled it by going forward and not looking back. I did a lot of praying and I wen for counselling and therapy. I also handled it by working my hardest and not getting involoved in the cliques and gossip and I became a stronger person for it. In life not everyone is going to like you. Sometimes God allows us to go through things and allow jobs to get so miserable and difficult so that we will seek a promotion or ask for a new position or seek a new job or carreer. I never regretted what I did to "spritually" stand tall be an upright person with integity.