30 Times People Exposed Their Bosses From Hell By Sharing Screenshots On This Community
We live in the times of the cruel job market where you basically have to shower in a sea of cold “Good luck in your future endeavors!” application rejections to even get to the point of an interview with absolutely no promise of getting a position.
Getting rejected is something all job seekers grow accustomed to, even though it melts your confidence with each letter, leaving you with a sense of last hope until you finally get your job and everything suddenly seems like a bad dream, a nightmare, to be honest.
So it’s only fair that many workers do everything they can to maintain their job even if that means they have to put up with the boss from hell. The subreddit “Antiwork” is a shelter for those who think of ending work, including those who have had enough of their employers and had to expose their deeds online.
Below is a list of the worst screenshots submitted by employees who basically deserve a medal for their patience. Scroll down and be sure to share your own experiences working with a bad boss in the comments, if you have one. And if you don’t, then we are happy for you!
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Horrible Bosses
Who’s The Boss Now?
I Made The Mistake Of Calling In Sick For My Shift 8 Hours Before It Started. No Regrets
While you don’t have to be best friends with your boss, it’s only fair you two get along as much as possible, making it a healthy workplace environment to be in from 9 to 5 on a daily basis. But, sadly this is not always the case. A recent survey from jobsite Monster.com polled almost 1000 people openly seeking new jobs and found out some shocking revelations.
In fact, when asked why they wanted to leave their current employer, a whopping 76 percent of jobseekers named a "toxic" boss as the reason. Of course, we can debate for ages what the term “toxic” is exactly referring to as it may range from being a jerk to someone who is too demanding, micromanages everything, barks out orders, constantly criticizes his workers or exhibits inappropriate behavior.
Got My Beer Balls On Right Now, I Think I Made The Right Decision
Between A Friend And His Manager At A Small Packing Plant
I Encouraged My Cousin To Quit Her Job And She Finally Stood Up For Herself!!
One thing is clear—a toxic boss is someone who poisons the workplace with toxicity instead of using their power to motivate, inspire and understand their employees. Meanwhile, 26 percent of the employees in the Monster survey said their boss was "power-hungry" or only looking out for themselves. 18 percent called their boss a “micromanager” and 17 percent said their boss is “incompetent.” The other 15 percent said their boss is never around and doesn’t seem to care.
Horrible Bosses
I’ve Never Had To Put Up With This Sh*t Before
Boss Called Me In The Middle Of Fixing The Day Shifts Mistakes On Top Of Doing My Own Job To Chew Me Out For Refusing A Customer. Needless To Say, She Won’t Have To Worry About Getting Anymore Complaints About Me
Another poll that surveyed 2,000 American office workers showed that they would rather have more feedback from their managers than more money. In fact, 53 percent of those surveyed said that more feedback on their role is the number one thing they want to see more of from their boss. Surprisingly, it turned out to be even more important than extra compensation (48%) and more honest communication (48%).
Quit My Job Last Night, It Was Nice To Be Home To Make The Kids Breakfast And Take Them To School Today! Off To Hunt For A New Opportunity, Wish Me Luck
I Was The Last Person At My Store, And I Quit Today After Being Expected To Come In And Help Customers After Being Exposed To Covid
The Sign I Needed To Take The Plunge And Do What I Love For A Living
Baam, nailed it, good answer - still on a very grown-up and professional way. I'm just wondering how the story ended.
Moreover, 78 percent of the respondents who have been employed, seven in ten, have admired one of their managers as a role model. The results suggest that great managers, CEO and bosses are often overlooked in company’s success and play a vital role in keeping employees on top of their game.
Incredibly, an admirable boss can have so much positive and long-term influence on their employees that it may have a direct effect on their behavior. The survey found that 71 percent of the respondents said their role models directly impact their behavior and choices on a daily basis.
Horrible Bosses
That One Time My (Former) Boss Tried To Make Me Come In To Deliver Sandwiches During The Freeze In Texas
My apartment hadn’t had power for two days and was forty degrees, the roads were still completely frozen and everyone was getting into car accidents, and I was 3 months pregnant.
My Girlfriend Works At A Recovery Home For Old People And People Who Need Help Physically And This Is What Her Boss Sent Her. 2 Weeks Later Her Coworker Came In With Covid And One Of The Patients Died From It
Fact: Sh*tty Managers Is Why No One Wants To Work
Recruiters Response After Being Told I Can’t Start On A Two Days Notice
Yes, but then they change everything you told them as to when you can work...then give the next newbie the schedule you needed. Glad I'm self employed now.
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It could be that the poster put in a start date so they could leave their current job on a two week notice, but the new employer took too long to respond and the poster hadn't turned in their two weeks because they didn't want to be unemployed. If you don't hear back from where you applied you don't want to leave your current job.
How are so many people mis-reading this as the applicant is the issue? Yes, the person said Monday was ok as their start date. If you read what's actually posted the new company asked them to come in on the Thursday before to which they replied that they couldn't/wouldn't.since they didn't want leave their old job shorthanded. Which is what a considerate employee does. The new company then said if the manager (that requested the applicant come in on Thursday) was ok with them starting on Monday instead, which the poster originally requested, would they accept the position? Then, without even waiting for a response from the applicant, the new company condescendingly berates and belittles them over the 'issue' that they themselves created by asking them to start earlier than they said they would be available. Nothing the applicant said indicated that they dont want the job, just that they couldnt start on Thursday (which they never said that they could anyways). In what way did the applicant waste their time considering, again, they never said they could start on Thursday? "It's pretty simple" is pretty aggressively an asshole statement in this context. And the applicant already said they could start Monday but the new company is acting like there was a lot of back and forth about the start date when it was only them causing the issue. Why would anyone then go work for a company that treated you, or anyone, in that way?
The only thing that is killing me is that they have 474 unanswered text…… x-x
You would hate my phone then cuz I currently have 141 unread texts at the moment lol
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That person said Monday was what they wanted, but when they got it, didn't want it?
That's what I was thinking. I'm confused as to how this was the recruiters fault.
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2 stories: a girl i went to high school with had an interview for a clothing store. she refused the job (As she'd had a better offer elsewhere). they called her a week later asking why she hadn't come in for her first shift. she was like 'because i dont work for you?' and they were like 'well, you're on the rota, so you better get here asap.' no chance also i applied for an unpaid position at a very small publishing company (1 or 2 other people), i got the job (i think i was the only applicant) but they wanted me to start on monday. this was a friday, and i already had another (paid) job to work. it might have been a good opportunity for me, but i decided not to take it as walking out on my work with 2 days notice would have been awful, especially when i wasn't even getting paid for this new 'job''
I feel like this has been twisted to make the recruiter look bad
Sorry but this seems unprofessional on the part of the applicant who basically just bullshited around the simple fact that he didn't want the job to begin with and he could have stated that and avoided the confusion.
That's not how I read it, but it's a little vague on some of the details. Monday (presumably following Thursday) was apparently the agreed upon start date and they wanted them to start earlier? That's what I read, could be wrong. It's too darned early here atm.
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Kind of get the impression (and feeling) this isn’t the whole story. I think the OP just changed his mind about wanting to work at the new place and used the start date as an excuse to keep from looking like an a-hole.
The idiot applied for a job then gets an offer but clearly got cold feet or used it as leverage to have their current job offer more money so they f****d over the hiring process by making the new job offer it to them essentially taking it from someone who was serious? F**k this noise.
I Quit A Day After This
I Have Been Wanting To Quit My Job Of 10 Years Took A Mental Health Day To Think About It This Is What I Wake Up To..
I Work For A Multibillion Dollar Corporation. Which Of Us Is Actually Stealing Time?
I'm Quite Annoyed And Want To Reply Accordingly, But I'm Unsure If My Words Hold Any Truth
Horrible Bosses
How A Quit My Incredibly Toxic And Abusive Job A Couple Of Weeks Ago. Just Found This Sub And Thought I’d Throw It In There. I Had Worked 7- 60 Hr Weeks Str8 And Tried To Take Off For My 21st Birthday. Request Denied, So I Called Out Sick Instead. Boss Found Out And I Figured, F*ck It, And F*ck You
I don't really get this thing about "giving" people time off. Like, do you not have a certain number of vacations days a year? I never "ask" for time off, I tell them when I want to have time off and unless there is a major scheduling conflict with my coworkers I will get that time off.
I Was Sick And 10.50 An Hour Wasn’t Enough To Make Me Stay During A Pandemic
My Buddy's Boss Last Night. Good For Him But I Wouldn't Have Answered
Yeah, Let Me Just Cancel All My Plans. I’ve Made Months In Advance. Be Right There
Got Fired After Having Allergic Reaction To Second Vaccine Dose
Got Illegally Fired From My Job, And Then The District Manager Had To Tell My Store Manager To Re-Hire Me
My Boss Who Expected In The Office The Day After My Mom Died
Note: this post originally had 44 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
I've worked for American companies for the last 25 years in Europe. Good experience. That being said, I was offered a chance to relocate to the US a couple of times, not in a million years, I would lose too many rights and benefits. The US really needs to up its game on basic employment laws.
Yes, my ex and I did a secondment to the US and it ended badly.
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Ii really isn't dystopic everywhere. Although I have worked for some nightmare places like these, I now work for a great company that has no problem with me talking vacations or sick leave or mental health days. But we could definitely do better all around. No one should have to put up with the nonsense on this post.
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Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I do my best to set boundaries and NOT communicate with coworkers/bosses about work outside of work hours. All this last minute scheduling is nuts. I've quit jobs before because people kept texting/emailing me about work and expecting responses when I'm not getting paid for that time. I have zero interest in that.
Parents need to teach their kids that doing stuff outside of work hours is not acceptable. If no worker ever accepted it, the businesses would simply not be able to get away with it. I truly blame the parents for not teaching their kids, who then just sucked it up for the most part until it became the norm.
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The US basically never abolished slave labor. They just included white people and pay just enough so it's not called slave labor, but not enough to actually live, nor give them any time off to actually have a life. It's a disgrace.
I can't believe all those Americans accept this b*llsh*t. At this point it just gets funny reading about it. I hope the current employee shortage will help you guys get the protection you deserve.
I gag every time, i read something like talking about "your discipline". This people are not children. "I´m your Boss! You do what i want!" *shudder*
I agree with you but it’s funny because at my company, me and my partner call our employees “our children.” That’s how you kind of have to function, even if people are competent and smart. If they’re employees, you have to walk them through everything or it will end up fûcked up. At least in my industry. I do agree with you though, and I cringed every time I read “discipline” too.
Load More Replies... These managers just straight up suck but let's also look at the way companies run these businesses.... Some of these managers are upset because it means they have to cover the workers shift... Because these companies hire the bare minimum of people and put as many of them on part time as possible so they can save on medical benefits etc. and then make the managers salaried on bad pay as well so they don't get overtime. None of the companies staff adequately so the good people leave including the good managers, only the bad managers stay because they are such a nightmare that no good places will hire them.
Yup. S**t runs downhill. (But some are just plain old jerks.)
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During job interview at "grocery store" I agreed to work for the store provided that I would not be required to work Sundays. 2 years later, I was put on the schedule for Sunday. "My God pays more than your store." I let them know that I would be unavailable for my shift. Over the next year and a half, I was never assigned another Sunday.
An employer wouldn't screw with something religious. Too many potential lawsuits.
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A wild guess: Most (if not all) are from the US? The country of exploiting human beings since its discovery?
we can't exactly move. immigrating is expensive, and most of the people who put up with this garbage are minimum wage workers. a lot of us are trapped.
Load More Replies... Most of this is prohibited in like 34 of the 35 most developed countries. It's the same 34 of 35 that have some kind of usable healthcare insurance, and it is the 34 of 35 where an accident someone else caused can not cause you to live in poverty from then on. It's almost like that 34 countries do certain things right the one that doesn't should copy - and not brag about not doing these. It's like a sailor in the 1800's, refusing to eat conserved fruit (... what was possible then of course, like pickled fruit and so) and brag about being a brave sailor, a scurvy-taker, not a pussy who refuses to get preventably sick.
Hopefully Covid will improve working conditions. Being short staffed means reassessing the gigs on offer. If pay and conditions don't improve industry will only have itself to blame as businesses close. In Aust, low numbers of exploitable backpackers and international students have started this shortage of hospitality workers now that we're coming out of lockdown. Good.
Time-and-a-half for overtime is the greatest con the employers have pulled off. Those hours were 100% your time already. If they need them they should pay 100% for them from your clock and 100% for then on their clock. If their customer bought a hamburger for $2 then left, and came back a few minutes later and said “I need another hamburger to cover for someone else,” would your boss only charge 1$?
This argument doesn't really make sense. Time and a half is working over 40 hours or on holidays. Holidays usually get double pay. Covering for people isn't usually considered time and a half. They should get paid extra as an incentive to come in on their scheduled time off but that isn't standard and I doubt it will be in the next 200 years in America
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I currently work at a company where employees are constantly calling off. Unfortunately that results in multiple calls on my days off to see if I will cover. I used to all the time. I have finally gotten to a place in my life where I just say NO. I am not a manager anymore. Part of the managerial duties are to cover call offs. If you can't, you work it. We here in Arizona have a really hard time keeping employees when unemployment pays soooo much more. It's really a shame.
I'm glad you're saying no. It's important to remember though that the unemployment payment isn't the issue. The issue is the fact that regular wages are SO LOW that even unemployment looks better. Workers deserve livable wages.
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Glad I no longer work in the service industry. Only time my boss has texted me was to check up on me when my dad died an to assure me to take the time I needed. That was it. I manage a staff of 7 and they don't have my personal phone number. They either email my work email or call my work phone.
I've worked for American companies for the last 25 years in Europe. Good experience. That being said, I was offered a chance to relocate to the US a couple of times, not in a million years, I would lose too many rights and benefits. The US really needs to up its game on basic employment laws.
Yes, my ex and I did a secondment to the US and it ended badly.
Load More Replies... Ii really isn't dystopic everywhere. Although I have worked for some nightmare places like these, I now work for a great company that has no problem with me talking vacations or sick leave or mental health days. But we could definitely do better all around. No one should have to put up with the nonsense on this post.
Load More Replies... Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I do my best to set boundaries and NOT communicate with coworkers/bosses about work outside of work hours. All this last minute scheduling is nuts. I've quit jobs before because people kept texting/emailing me about work and expecting responses when I'm not getting paid for that time. I have zero interest in that.
Parents need to teach their kids that doing stuff outside of work hours is not acceptable. If no worker ever accepted it, the businesses would simply not be able to get away with it. I truly blame the parents for not teaching their kids, who then just sucked it up for the most part until it became the norm.
Load More Replies... The US basically never abolished slave labor. They just included white people and pay just enough so it's not called slave labor, but not enough to actually live, nor give them any time off to actually have a life. It's a disgrace.
I can't believe all those Americans accept this b*llsh*t. At this point it just gets funny reading about it. I hope the current employee shortage will help you guys get the protection you deserve.
I gag every time, i read something like talking about "your discipline". This people are not children. "I´m your Boss! You do what i want!" *shudder*
I agree with you but it’s funny because at my company, me and my partner call our employees “our children.” That’s how you kind of have to function, even if people are competent and smart. If they’re employees, you have to walk them through everything or it will end up fûcked up. At least in my industry. I do agree with you though, and I cringed every time I read “discipline” too.
Load More Replies... These managers just straight up suck but let's also look at the way companies run these businesses.... Some of these managers are upset because it means they have to cover the workers shift... Because these companies hire the bare minimum of people and put as many of them on part time as possible so they can save on medical benefits etc. and then make the managers salaried on bad pay as well so they don't get overtime. None of the companies staff adequately so the good people leave including the good managers, only the bad managers stay because they are such a nightmare that no good places will hire them.
Yup. S**t runs downhill. (But some are just plain old jerks.)
Load More Replies... During job interview at "grocery store" I agreed to work for the store provided that I would not be required to work Sundays. 2 years later, I was put on the schedule for Sunday. "My God pays more than your store." I let them know that I would be unavailable for my shift. Over the next year and a half, I was never assigned another Sunday.
An employer wouldn't screw with something religious. Too many potential lawsuits.
Load More Replies... A wild guess: Most (if not all) are from the US? The country of exploiting human beings since its discovery?
we can't exactly move. immigrating is expensive, and most of the people who put up with this garbage are minimum wage workers. a lot of us are trapped.
Load More Replies... Most of this is prohibited in like 34 of the 35 most developed countries. It's the same 34 of 35 that have some kind of usable healthcare insurance, and it is the 34 of 35 where an accident someone else caused can not cause you to live in poverty from then on. It's almost like that 34 countries do certain things right the one that doesn't should copy - and not brag about not doing these. It's like a sailor in the 1800's, refusing to eat conserved fruit (... what was possible then of course, like pickled fruit and so) and brag about being a brave sailor, a scurvy-taker, not a pussy who refuses to get preventably sick.
Hopefully Covid will improve working conditions. Being short staffed means reassessing the gigs on offer. If pay and conditions don't improve industry will only have itself to blame as businesses close. In Aust, low numbers of exploitable backpackers and international students have started this shortage of hospitality workers now that we're coming out of lockdown. Good.
Time-and-a-half for overtime is the greatest con the employers have pulled off. Those hours were 100% your time already. If they need them they should pay 100% for them from your clock and 100% for then on their clock. If their customer bought a hamburger for $2 then left, and came back a few minutes later and said “I need another hamburger to cover for someone else,” would your boss only charge 1$?
This argument doesn't really make sense. Time and a half is working over 40 hours or on holidays. Holidays usually get double pay. Covering for people isn't usually considered time and a half. They should get paid extra as an incentive to come in on their scheduled time off but that isn't standard and I doubt it will be in the next 200 years in America
Load More Replies... I currently work at a company where employees are constantly calling off. Unfortunately that results in multiple calls on my days off to see if I will cover. I used to all the time. I have finally gotten to a place in my life where I just say NO. I am not a manager anymore. Part of the managerial duties are to cover call offs. If you can't, you work it. We here in Arizona have a really hard time keeping employees when unemployment pays soooo much more. It's really a shame.
I'm glad you're saying no. It's important to remember though that the unemployment payment isn't the issue. The issue is the fact that regular wages are SO LOW that even unemployment looks better. Workers deserve livable wages.
Load More Replies... Glad I no longer work in the service industry. Only time my boss has texted me was to check up on me when my dad died an to assure me to take the time I needed. That was it. I manage a staff of 7 and they don't have my personal phone number. They either email my work email or call my work phone.
