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[SennaVille]

If there was a world-wide competition with many entrants from varied occupations from around the world, I would win hands-down in the Worst Boss Evah! entry.

First off, she's a she. I would one billion-million-trillion times prefer some sort of alien from a far-off planet (or maybe a slightly lecherous male) to a female boss. She has elevated bitchy to a new kind of art form that is a wonder to behold. If the Olympics had a back-stabbing event, she would be standing in all her glory, gold medal around her neck. She is short and ugly and has really bad teeth and would sell anyone of us out for a noodle. The word "petty" was individually invented just for her, and how she loves it!

I would gladly give al-quada her address listing her as an agent of mossad.

So, let's hear your lovely boss stories!

[Denthúl]

My boss is awesome. Only complaint that I have is that once, when he was on top of a ladder doing some work in a cab, he threw a pair of scissors to me to catch. I quickly got out of the way and spent the next few hours cursing him.

[stonemonkey]

One from a few years ago and not my current boss.

Working for a stone supply company we were supplying stone paving slabs with a finish done by hand with mallet and chisel. The type of stone was exceptionally hard, sparks flying, chisels breaking and very painful work. Most of the guys got pissed off and started doing a bad job of it and when I said to my boss that the architect wouuldn't accept it he said it wasn't my problem and not to worry about it.

Monday morning, the architect's rejected the work and someone's to go out to their site to re-do it, guess who? It was winter, half the slabs had been laid and I was sitting in the snow, hands getting more and more painful with every hit. By wednesday afternoon I'd almost finished but my last chisel broke. On my way home I stopped at a payphone to call in and he sent someone over to drop some chisels off that night so I could finish the work off on the thursday.

Friday morning, back at work I see my boss, all he said was 'where the f*** were you on when the architect turned up at the site on wednesday?''

[SennaVille]

^ Chisel + skull = aaahhh!

[Jabberwocky]

micro managers annoy me the most

[Big Azza]

I work for a telco company installing new internet services over fiber optic cables. Very cool stuff.

I am 20 years old and finished a traineeship 18 months where I got a Certificate in IT completely unrelated to my work. My old boss went crazy in our team of 3, left the company, so I found myself in a position where I've worked here the longest so I knew a quite a bit. I trained my new manager and a new staff member.

The first thing my manager did was buckle under pressure to take on all the provisioning work from another company we bought out. My work load tripled. Unfortunately during my traineeship I did a bit of work for this other company. They have no processes, no records, and do things blindly. Their network is a mess. I found that because I had a bit of experience with this other company I was doing literally EVERYTHING.

Then I have people who have been in the industry for as long as I've been alive who can't make decisions. They don't have balls to make decisions. So I - the teenage wonderkid - found myself designing network solutions for major customers (governments, banks, international organisations), pricing them, passing it on for someone else to make commission, then I order the thing and connect it. Where are the other 400 people in the company!?

When I have a go at these people for pushing me too much, my boss gets angry with me, tells me that I should let him handle it. But what does he do? He just sends one line emails saying, "We're doing the best we can." That just opens the way for more pressure!

All this for $13 bucks an hour. I have no time to live my life - I love my job, but for someone my age I'm under a lot of pressure, because many customers and basically . But my boss is not helping, and he doesn't have the balls to stand up to his boss so we're constantly under more pressure. I have 2 other guys twice my age in my team who have no idea what to do....

I put in my resignation because I thought the dole was a better option, but the CEO of the Australian division is a lovely lady who helped me get the job. While she is not in my chain of command, she is responsible for staff well-being. She rejected my resignation and promised more pay, better working conditions. While it's been 2 months and still no improvement, she's set a plan with me to move out of my current role in the company and do something customer-interfacing. The pay is coming soon I hope.

Today I received some lovely emails from many other managers in the company who I don't report to, all telling me what a great job I've done to single-handedly get a 1Gbps fiber between two of our datacenters in the CBD, to appear onto 12 connections I've arranged to a big customer's network core. Praise from all them, except my boss.

But I can't leave, if I leave this job I have nothing. I suppose I'm in a fantastic position to have a great career, but for 13 bucks an hour!?....

[Denthúl]

But I can't leave, if I leave this job I have nothing. I suppose I'm in a fantastic position to have a great career, but for 13 bucks an hour!?....

Know exactly what you mean. I get endless praise in all of the team meetings and whatnot that all the area's managers attend (I don't officially know that I get that praise, mind you...) but what I have to put up with doesn't seem worth just under £6/hour.

[Big Azza]

But I can't leave, if I leave this job I have nothing. I suppose I'm in a fantastic position to have a great career, but for 13 bucks an hour!?....

Know exactly what you mean. I get endless praise in all of the team meetings and whatnot that all the area's managers attend (I don't officially know that I get that praise, mind you...) but what I have to put up with doesn't seem worth just under £6/hour.

Wow that's pretty low as well. Are you an apprentice?

[Denthúl]

But I can't leave, if I leave this job I have nothing. I suppose I'm in a fantastic position to have a great career, but for 13 bucks an hour!?....

Know exactly what you mean. I get endless praise in all of the team meetings and whatnot that all the area's managers attend (I don't officially know that I get that praise, mind you...) but what I have to put up with doesn't seem worth just under £6/hour.

Wow that's pretty low as well. Are you an apprentice?

I was. I finished the courses agreed with the school, but then I was transferred to my new employer as an apprentice because my previous employer had to submit details about a week before my certificates arrived. Now they won't move me off this contract unless I go and work at another school that they manage.

[The_Stig_Money]

My boss is a arogant, drunk, who wakes up late every day, spends most of his time sorting out his work instead of doing work.

I am my own boss (contractor for a garage door company)

At least my boss is handsome and great taste in sports and music

[madbrad]

You do know that bosses routinely google employees'(and applicants') names and they will see this thread?

[MattMK45]

I'm my own boss too! Except I'm in college so I'll just pipe down now.

[SennaVille]

You do know that bosses routinely google employees'(and applicants') names and they will see this thread?

Lloyd Christmas never stays gainfully employed for any length of time anyways (not unless you want to work 40 hours a week!).

Google me and all will become clear