"My manager told me to mop the breakroom floor. I did. She freaked out that it was slippery (two seconds after I was done)."
"When he told me instead of taking my new higher paying job I should just work more hours at my current one for him."
"I had a boss once who refused to register to vote because she didn’t want jury duty and then got jury duty because that’s not the only way they pick. She ended up serving for a week."
"My manager (woman who’s in nursing school) thought that women were pregnant for 12 months."
"Dropped a ton of cash renting art from a museum’s art bank for our (decrepit Chinatown) office. Then didn’t have money to pay salaries."
"The time he got really b#tchy/passive aggressive a few months after he hired me which finally boiled over when he got mad and said “I HIRED YOU BECUASE I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO RUN THIS COMPANY FOR ME!”
I’m a graphic designer by the way."
"I told my boss since he wouldn’t listen to me we needed an industrial engineer to make our dept/machine more efficient. He said, “no way in hell are we bringing in an engineer.” 3 weeks later my company hired an engineer and when they came to our Dept the engineer asked him what he wanted to do differently he froze turned and said, “well let’s go talk to TheMonkeyMen he’s worked here a long time he knows what needs to be done.” … this boss makes at least double my salary if not more"
"I write “: )” on papers I grade for a professor. He accused me of writing slurs in my native language even though it’s just a f@#king smiley face."
"Boss at a pool was proud that she managed to convince the health inspector to let us stay open when the chlorine levels were well over the allowed amount"
"When she told me I should have no problem with this new task because “it’s not rocket scientist”. Also, she says “pacifically”."
"When I asked him to print out a team schedule for one of our leagues. He came out of the office 10 minutes and said he couldn’t find it on the website and asked if I could help. It was a very simple website, the only clickable thing on the page said “download pdf of schedule”. Another time he couldn’t figure out how to use google docs to make an out of order sign."
"Oh he straight up told me he didn’t know what he was doing and was glad I was hired so I could do all the complex stuff. Good guy to work for, he trusted me to do the very technical side and he took care of the simple projects and keeping idiot managers off my back."
"When he actually thought I was the person for this position"
"I work in an office. This year I taught my boss how to copy/paste on the computer… twice."
"When he barked at me. No joke, like full blown hound on the scent bark."
"After the third time he drove a powerdrill through his hand…"
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