You guys have some awful bosses. Seriously.
We got tons of stories, ranging from amusing to worrisome to alarmingly criminal. We laughed (schadenfreude is a great afternoon pick-me-up). We cried. We thought about alerting the authorities. But without further ado, the winning horrible boss story comes from reader Pasko1. Here’s a snippet:
How about my boss of 8-1/2 years? It wasn’t that he was a paranoid maniac who used to watch the dozens of security cameras remotely at his house — closed-circuit video of our office where no cash was stored and which had nothing more than beat up, second-hand furniture, off-brand computers, and about 100 of his disgusting deer heads and other things that he shot while on international hunting trips paid through the company checking account as, you guessed it, “business conferences.” … What really got to me was when he made me spend an entire day monitoring his wife’s phone usage on the Verizon Wireless website while he was going through his divorce. I then had to investigate each phone number that called her or that she called. I then had to do an ANALYSIS of each number, total minutes, total calls, and CHART THE BUSY PERIODS DURING THE DAY.
Read the rest of Pasko’s horrible boss story here. It really is just spectacularly awful, though we can’t help wondering why someone would stay there for eight years. Maybe we’ll find out when we write your new professional resume.
Other notable mentions include a pastry-devouring, document-throwing tyrant and a jealous office saboteur. And then there’s this, from a reader we’ll call The Mouse:
My boss made me design a logo, ads, and stationery for a sex shop that they owned on the side.
Thanks for playing, gang. We’ll do it again next year.
