It's hump day...share your "my boss is a jerk" stories.

[Nlighten1]

Go...

[latebloomer]

1. My boss is an angel!

I am self-employed.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. My boss is fine

My clients fucking suck though. They're in town for meetings and they are SOO NEEDY!!!

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Here I go........

I have to do all, and I mean all, the work.
I don't get paid anywhere near my worth.
I don't get any vacations. If I go away for a few days I'm still on call 24/7.
I don't get any benefits.
I have to clean up after his mistakes.

Oh right! LOL. I work for myself.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. God, I was about to say why the hell do you stay there?

LOL Man, you need to treat yourself better. What do you do if you don't mind me asking?
Duckie

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Well...... I started out...............

the business 3 years ago selling industrial maintenance products like bearings, belts, drives etc. I am still doing that but since then I developed and now manufacture hydraulic filtration units ( one type I have a patent pending on) that are used by both the Navy and Army. The Navy say's that I am saving them millions of dollars. Having said that, I am still waiting for "my ship to come in" as it takes a while for the military to move items into the purchasing system. My fingers are crossed.
See...you had to ask.

[Red State Rebel]

6. I feel your pain!

[SCDem]

5. My boss is a major A**hole

This past year I wrote a grant that got funded for $1.2 million. I was funded under another grant that was not going to get renewed but there was a position under the new grant that *I* wrote. We got the grant in September and he kept putting off putting my funding under the new grant. Well I went on maternity leave and a week before I came back he said that I will not be needed on this new grant. So I have a job until June 30th till the funding runs out. He doesn't even acknowledge I exist anymore.

It's sad cause I loved my job, I put in more hours than needed, hell I wrote the grant for $400,000 more dollars than my boss said because I saw that we needed that extra money when doing the budget and of course we got funded for the full amount. Oh it makes me sick.

I guess the saying is No good deed goes unpunished.

(And he supports Bush, I feel like saying if you are going to let me go in this crappy economy that you voted for the least you could do is vote for Kerry in November so I might have a chance of getting another job.)

[ellie]

8. My boss is a jerk

I work in the publishing business and I send him pages for final approval. Well, he misses stuff and it costs to fix it, then he blames me. I am getting pretty tired of it. I send the pages to him in a kind of "buck stops here" way. By the end of production, I have been looking at the pages so long I no longer see them. He is supposed to have the "fresh eyes." So, I don't know what I am going to do to fix this problem. But I am not going to be blamed for these mistakes anymore.

[rhino47]

9. My former boss said in a meeting with all men once

told me to not open my mouth unless his cock was in it.
Oh and also he sent faxes out .. for a good time call with my home phone number on it.I reported him and he was promoted.I was the only female manager.

[MountainLaurel]

10. Former boss stories

I have no idea what mud pit in Hell editors are created, but I've had doozies:

#1: Who decided to welcome me to the staff by telling me that I was not the candidate she wanted to hire, but that the associations's Executive Vice President and Deputy EVP wanted to save money by hiring someone just out of college and thus hired me over her objections.

#2 Who called me out -- after saving her ass by staying late and putting aside other work on numerous projects -- in a staff meeting for some standardized text that was missing from a particular document. When it was discovered that the text had NEVER been printed in that document series because of a decision made by the government client, the bitch didn't apologize. Also, she spent more time in her office playing Free Cell than actually managing, which is why our group moved from crisis to crisis.

#3 The department head at the previous government contractor. Who thought that the names of the two African-American females in our department were interchangeable. (When corrected by one of said females, her response was "whoever.") Who regularly saved performance reviews, reprimands, and other legally sensitive personnel information on the public server because she knew nothing about technology. Who once noted in an e-mail that someone was being dismissed for being "aesthetically challenged." Who collected observations from certain employees on a regular basis, including who came in 5 minutes late. Who asked at a farewell party who was leaving, when the supervisor of the departing employee had met with her about making a counteroffer to the employee because we would be fucked without his services.

#3 Who once reprimanded me for using a blue pen instead of a red one for copyediting, despite the fact that there was not even a procedural manual to let you know what the editing and review process was, let alone the color pen one was to use. Who was a major reason staff members had stress-related illnesses and regular anxiety attacks.