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Recently, I worked in a sales department of an ad agency. During my first few weeks at work I was under constant surveillance by my department supervisor. She would listen to how I interacted with the clients and monitor my phone calls on a daily basis.
Every morning I would receive a memorandum on my desk outlining all the things I did incorrectly. But, the issue was that almost all of the memos would have bad grammar and incorrect spelling in it.
Two weeks before I resigned, I decided to correct much of the grammatical and spelling errors in the memos I received over the last few weeks. I corrected all errors with a red pen and I put suggestions on the bottom of the memos of how to write it right the next time.
On Friday morning, a week before I was to resign, I handed them in to my supervisor’s manager who seemed quite perturbed at the amount of errors in the memos. By the end of the day I was told by my supervisor that I was not doing a good job and was ask to leave the company. |
| Posted by P. Erickson on 09/24/06 at 8:23 PM MST |
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| A Complicated Man |
Frazzled, panicked, absent-minded, micromanaging and on the verge of an anxiety attack in some of the words I would use to describe my current boss. He starts his day by coming around with a timesheet to make everyone comes to work on time.
He would tell me to do a complicated project that would normally take 3 to 4 hours and would come around to ask if I was done every 30minutes. If one sends an email to him, his response is either “yes” or “no” it does not matter what details were in the email.
Then during the day he would come around and spit out responsibilities that often made no sense but, I would get them done. Then he would forget what he told me to do and his reply would be “I did not tell you to do that.” He would tell me to start a new project if a few days; then he would come around hours later and ask me if it was done. Then he would say “that takes priority in needs to be done now.” He often changes the priority of a projects 3 to 4 times a day. |
| Posted by Brian on 09/24/06 at 8:22 PM MST |
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| Old Pervert |
My boss is an old pervert. I have been working for a small communications company in New Jersey for the last three months. Every day, over the last few weeks my boss seems to be getting weird. He comes by my desk and says something perverted or massages my shoulders briefly. He says things like “hey, you are looking real good today”, “did you do something with your hair” and he always makes comment about how pretty I am.
It is very clear that my boss is trying to see how far I am willing to go with him. It feels very uncomfortable when he comes around. Needless to say, I will not work for this pervert much longer. |
| Posted by Susan on 09/21/06 at 7:59 PM MST |
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The Worst Boss Known to Man
It was two weeks before Christmas and the crazy crackhead CEO of a bull S*** credit repair company decided to do a mass firing of workers he deemed as unproductive. I worked at this job for six months and it was only because I had to pay my bills. The CEO walks in early one morning through call center area in his usual fast (super crack speed) speed into the back office. After some yelling in the office one of his lackeys came out of the office with a 300 yard stare in his eyes (and no he was not fired). He was told to start the mass firing.
Then it began with a young man who started less than a month ago. He was called into the back office by the CEO’s lackey. As he walked out of the office something in the air did not feel right. He walked over to his desk and took his things and walked out the building. Next, the lackey came over to a little old woman three seats to my right who was working at the company for the last 2 years. As the lackey approached, the old woman began to cry and saying, “I cannot believe you will fire me”. Started crying louder and started to talk about her family and how she was planning to use her meager pay check to provide a good holiday for children. After fifteen minutes of her pleading for her job she was forced out of the build in by the security.
That day at least nine employees got fired two weeks before Christmas. Needless to say, I did not stay at that company much longer.
Recently on the internet and noticed that company was listed as Fraudulent Credit Repair / Debt Consolidation Agencies.
Posted by mjones on 9/13/2006 at 09:04 PM MST
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A "LOUD" Mouth
I was working as a sales executive for a small advertising company in Los Angeles. And the problem was that my boss would yell at me in front of others regardless of how small the problem. He didn’t care where we were. He would just yell at me, use foul language and I just felt very embarrassed.
Posted by jny on 9/11/2006 at 07:11 PM MST
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Verbal B**** Slap!
I currently work at a job in New Jersey where the top boss is an a** h***. Almost every morning around 10am (almost like clockwork, once or twice a week) my boss calls his accountant into his lavish office. Once the accountant enters the room, the door closes. Then it begins. The boss begins to scream at the top of his lungs at the accountant for various issues. “You f***in idiot, I can’t believe you are such a fool, what the f*** is wrong with you”, and it goes on and on. The accountant never replies to the insults. He just sits there and takes it. I just sit in my cube and think to myself, if I was the accountant, the dude would get b***** slapped for talking to me that way. What a loser.
Posted by rjsimond on 9/8/2006 at 03:26 PM
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