The Tyrant
This boss is a ruler who exercises power in a harsh, cruel manner. She (he) does not care about her (his) staff. Her (his) main goal is to get the job done. If the staff has to stay late and work in unreasonable conditions that is not an issue. The Tyrant's mantra is "the staff should be lucky that I don't fire them".
Her (his) staff hates most of these types of bosses, but the Tyrant has no idea why that is. It can happen that staff leaves in droves due to this boss and the staff makes it known that is because of the boss' attitude. Even if this happens the boss is usually in denial and blames other reasons not her (his) attitude.
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My boss was never wrong
I worked at A&W for 2.5 years. During that time I had a lot of bosses. Most of them were pitiful. There was especially that was hated by all of the employees. He was arrogant, mean spirited and just plain mean for no reason. Well maybe he didn ...
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My boss was never wrong
I worked at A&W for 2.5 years. During that time I had a lot of bosses. Most of them were pitiful. There was one especially that was hated by all of the employees. He was arrogant, mean spirited and just plain mean for no reason. Well maybe he ...
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Clean up the sh*t
My first job was working on a lunch counter in my home town. I worked for this little Italian guy that was forever barking out ridiculous orders. My job was to take the orders, cook the food, serve the food and cash out the customers. We had all kinds of ...
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The Exploiter
My boss, the owner of a small company is the tightest of the tight. For example, the company needs to employ a photographer right now. A member of staff recommends a friend who will charge at a discount rate as a favor. Rather than accept this fantastic offer, he insults ...
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Bi-Polar
There should be a category for "The Psycho" because that is what my old boss was. He was seriously a maniac - one minute, he was your best friend and the next minute, he would be chewing you out and telling you that you should "be concerned for your job." Talk ...
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Such a pen-is
I won't get into all the details, but a few anecdotes:
He used to chain smoke in his and everyones offices.. but this was a nice building, a real company, not some slack start-up. he used to say "fuck it," we'll pay the fine (as smoking indoors was ...
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Slow witted boss.
You won't believe that story.
My former my boss, let's call him 'Bob', once asked me to write a small program that was supposed to compute how much electricity a device was using. It was a Monday morning and I was sooo hangover. I told him I would ...
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Tripod-wielding Madman
On my first trip away with the boss we were working late in Manchester and got back to the hotel at around midnight. I'd suggested earleir in the day that we book into the hotel before we started work in the evening, but he dismissed this foolosh idea as ...
