Our entire office was comforting her, and then our boss, John, walks in. John: “HOW COULD YOU BE TWO HOURS LATE?! I’M ISSUING YOU A WARNING!
ONE MORE TIME AND YOU’RE FIRED!” The whole office was in shock! Such unfairness! But then,Mary stands up and says to John, “HOW DARE YOU, YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL I WAS LATE BECAUSE YOU left me and our children and offer no help.
I have to take them to school, do the laundry, clean, and cook all by myself! I’m forced to work more just to make ends meet.(We were all shocked. Nobody had any idea that John was her ex-husband who had abandoned her.)
u/[deleted]: I had a boss who constantly gave wildly conflicting instructions.
We’d all do something the first way; then, she would get angry and tell us to do it differently. She’d insist we ask questions if we had any, and then she would get angry when we did ask questions. Then, we would get instructions from managers above her on how to do something new, and she would instruct us to do the exact opposite.
That lasted until her managers would tell her to tell us we were doing it wrong, so she’d yell at us for messing up and ask us to do it the original way again. Then, every Friday, she would give us an hour-long speech about what a horrible job we were all doing, and then she’d keep firing people until she found the team she wanted. She would follow that up with how much she loved and respected us.
The following Monday, we’d find that she fired ten people over the weekend. This lasted for two months before she was removed from the project by her superiors, who realized she was not suitable for the position. u/[deleted]: One of many was when I informed my supervisor that I had received news that my grandfather passed away that morning.
For months, I had told my supervisor of my grandfather’s health conditions. So, news of him passing away shouldn’t have been that big of a surprise. I asked for the next few days off to help with arrangements and to be with my family.
My supervisor says, “Why? They’re not burying him tomorrow. ”
I responded, “It doesn’t matter if he is buried tomorrow or not; my family needs me.” Thankfully, I’m no longer at that job.
I’ve had other terrible supervisors from various jobs, but that still sticks out. u/[deleted]: I worked at a Scout Camp a few years back, and I had a director who, from day one, had it out for me. The first day, he told me to put my stuff in a cabin that didn’t exist, then yelled at me when I wasn’t unpacked an hour later.
Then, later in the summer, he decided that he was unsatisfied with my ability to run, so he woke me up before the crack of dawn, sent me out to the mile-long parking lot, and told me to start running laps and only stop when he told me to. He stuck around for about twenty minutes, told me that if I stopped while he was gone, I would get a write-up, and then left for breakfast. I kept struggling up and down that hill for three hours and was only relieved of my dangerous punishment after one of my other directors pulled up in his truck and asked why I wasn’t at my program area.
Then, later in the summer, he wrote me up for being groggy and unenthusiastic at breakfast, then wrote me up again a week later for “leaving the camp without signing out” even though I had been in my cabin all night. And then, at the end of summer, he decided that he never wanted to see my face ever again and tried to blacklist me for allegedly smoking pot on the reservation, even though I had spent my entire night in my cabin reading a book. When they sent him to direct another camp, and my blacklisting mysteriously was reneged.
The guy never got a word of reprimand for it, and I swear that if I ever see him out in public, I will punch him in the back of the head. Deleted user: So, I’m 66 and have been with this company for 30 years. Then, I got seriously sick.
Boss: “Prove you’re sick.” I send him my diagnosis and doctor’s note. Boss: “YOU’RE LYING! Get to the office now.” Me: “Can’t, doc advised rest and staying home.” Boss: “Then you’re fired.
Come in later to sign your termination papers.”
Me: “But I’m just 5 months away from retirement, don’t do this!” Boss: “Don’t care, you’re fired. Come and sign the termination letter.”
Me: “Hmm.. Okay..
Wait for it.. Be ready..” 5 days later, I wake up to 30 missed calls from my boss. I call back.Boss (panicked): “TAKE IT BACK, OUR COMPANY NEVER DID THAT!!!I laughed and said, “Oops… looks like someone anonymously sent a letter to the police with all the evidence of your shady dealings…”
Boss: “TAKE IT BACK!
IMMEDIATELY!!!” Me: “No way! Should’ve thought twice before treating me like that!” Ten days later, the boss got fired, I was reinstated, and all my colleagues kept their jobs. KARMA HITS BACK!
u/speechlesspoetry: I worked as a receptionist for a couple of months, and if one thing was out of place in the entire lobby, my boss would yell at me. She would do this repeatedly, and I never understood why. Sometimes, when things were out of place in the lobby, I didn’t have the energy to get up and fix it, and she kept saying I was wasting money.
One week, I grabbed chairs and purposely messed them up, tip over trash cans with small amounts of garbage, and so on. That week, I got paid $80 less. I checked all my checks and realized that the more the lobby was messed up, the less I got paid.
Once I confronted her about it and she gave me the money back. She was so petty and rude. Irrespective of our ranks, every human needs to be treated with respect.
Plus, treating someone badly doesn’t make you feel any better. In any case, a toxic work environment only lowers employees’ productivity and performance, which equates to low revenue for the company. But a healthy workplace means a happy employee, a satisfied customer, and better business.
