People Are Revealing The Absolute Worst Things Their Bosses Said To Them (36 Tweets)

As a musician myself with most of my grandparents dead[the only living one is on my dad's side]–I applaud the individual for setting their priorities straight. Family is important.

Touché!

I had a manager tell me I couldn't go to the funeral of my best friends mother. She said it was my responsibility to find a replacement, I told her no, it was her responsibility. I went to the funeral

Then you shouldn't have waited months to bring up that you couldn't make it.

pfft my boss let me leave early to go to my grandma's birthday.

A friend who worked the registers at a large orange hardware store said one morning a colleague called in sick. Their assistant manager told her to report to work or you're fired. So the employee dragged herself out of bed, drove to work, stood at the cash register and within a half an hour had vomited all over the conveyor belt. The assistant manager then tried to get her to clean up her own vomit and continue working. The other employees rallied behind the sick employee and began arguing with the assistant manager. The store manager walked in the door to find this mutiny underway. He fired the assistant manager on the spot, apologized to the team, told the sick employee to go home, and then cleaned up the mess himself because he didn't want his other employees to get sick.

I was put onto new medications by my doctor once which would take two months to fully come into effect, so my doctor put me on medical leave for those two months (Short version, I was dealing with severe bowel distress in a security monitoring call center, so stepping away when I had to do so COULD NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN). I went to my job to show my manager (A family member who was personally aware of my health) the doctor's orders. She said "Get yourself better, so what you need to for your health". I was fired a month later for not coming to work within a 30 day period, as stated in the employee manual. Gotta love a job that cares about your well being.

Lots of managers are like this. You’re contagious, so I’d prefer you to come in and infect everybody rather than have a couple of days off. Other than moral reasons to let people have time off, in a busy workplace that’s potentially dozens of more employees getting ill and taking time off, so having one person isolate themselves surely is good business sense (as well as being the right thing to do anyway) if all you care about is money.

she shouldve taken the firing then she could sue.

Now imagine this same scenario today....I think the boss would have been fired instead

Here's a wild idea--report the roach nests because it's the right thing to do.

You don't have to love your employer but this is just hurting the customers. How can you seriously serve people food when you see cockroaches in the kitchen?? They are disgusting and you are disgusting.

Graduated in peace, and got the kitchen cleaned up. Double bonus!

OOww I like this

If you are willing to work at a restaurant and serve customers food, fully knowing that there are cockroaches in the kitchen, your moral is off as well.

Your boss/dad is a d**k.

I feel this so much. My dad was that kind of boss. I escaped death by inches. Regs said I get a medical check to be safe. I'm sitting down waiting for the mandatory paramedic. My dad rolls by and screamed at me to get back to work. Crew chief et al. tried to step up, but he wasn't gonna be told no. So I got back to work, no medical check. I needed the money to get an education so I would never have to work for that SOB again. And that's reality in the USA.

is he still your dad?

If he was that upset about one day off then imagine how he felt about her getting pregnant in the first place - Maternity leave etc.

1) Your boss is an insecure micromanager. 2) Your dad is abusive.

"Family." Always. Whoever thinks otherwise is an idiot.

If a manager is asking that question then they should not be charge of themselves let alone a business or other people.

I do not understand these mentality... This is so unhealthy

I had a manager once doubt that my mother had cancer and major surgery that removed a lot of her intestines, colon, bladder, and vagina. She had a 20% chance of living. Same manager took 2 weeks off because his dad had routine shoulder surgery.

I can relate. My first "real" job had a somewhat similar situation. I was 17, my mother called the office (pre-cell phone days) from her office and told me she was sick and needed me to drive her home. My extremely work-aholic mother who was in at her office 7 days a week. If she said she needed to go home, it was serious. I told my boss I needed to leave. She told me I needed to decide what was more important, my work or my family. Easiest decision ever. Handed in my resignation the next day.

I worked at a Penguin Point when we had a fire that took out the water heater. The owner was mad that I called the FD to put it out since then the health department would shut the store down until the water heater was replaced. Too bad so sad.

I worked at a home depot, someone clipped an electrical cable with a fork lift and it ignited the hot tub covers causing a giant plastic fire and the sprinklers went off. The whole afternoon shift employees were using giant squeegees to shove the water out the doors, the manager opened the store, people slipped in the water, employees vomited from the burnt plastic fumes. Guys tried to walk down the plumbing aisles even though they were roped off and fell. Employers don't care about workers at all just the money.