We telling fucked up boss behavior stories? <cracks knuckles> I've been training for this since I was 15.
Just today I was telling the story of an old boss who dressed down a sales guy during his demo because the sales guy had a picture of his daughter (a Marine) meeting President Obama while deployed in Afghanistan as his desktop. My boss wouldn't say Obama's name, just "that MAN."
The day after Michael Brown's murder, while muted footage of Ferguson played on every television behind him, I had a boss tell our PR firm rep he didn't want us doing Spanish ads for our site because in his experience Latinos aren't smart enough to use the Internet.
I once had a boss we all knew was a functional alcoholic, then one night she came into work after driving over a neighbor kid's head because she was drunk/not looking. The other managers made us sign her a condolences card about her arrest.
I've had multiple bosses in multiple industries leverage their power over me to help them cover up extramarital affairs with other staff members.
I had a boss who kept a list of suburbs he and his wife boycotted because they'd given him tickets for not having a front license plate on his Porsche (which he refused to do because it "messed up the lines").
I once had a boss show up at a sausage factory on Christmas Eve with cash to try to buy from the workers directly because he was upset the factory only sold to restaurants, and he had already boasted about having this fancy-fuck sausage for his Christmas party.
I had a boss who was having an affair with one of his staff and after she quit, he kept paying her her full salary, listing her as a "consultant." It took over a year for her successor to catch on.
I once had a boss who would block out 2-hour closed-door meetings with her stylist in the office during the work day.
After she eventually quit, she and the stylist rebranded as political image consultants specializing in Republican politicians, not even joking.
After she eventually quit, she and the stylist rebranded as political image consultants specializing in Republican politicians, not even joking.
This one summer I supposedly worked in a grocery store but really only shucked corn for 8 hours a day, every day. My boss found some silk strands on some of the corn I shucked and started weeping in anger. He lectured me for an hour about not respecting "the beautiful corn."
(I later learned that boss was such a problem he'd been passed from store to store in the company's chain -- they couldn't fire him because he was somebody's son, so they hid him in the lowest-rung management job they could in new stores where nobody reported on him yet)
