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  • 77% Boss is a Prick
  • 0% Sounds Bad
  • 22% Stop Complaining
  • 9 Ratings

Venting

My boss is so bad I started a group on yahoo about so as everyone who has frustraitions about their boss can vent!
My boss is a male and the only male in the company as well as the owner of the company. He constantly brags around our small town ...

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Posted: March 10, 2007 | Boss Type: The Tyrant | Industry: Manufacturing |

What others think

  • 73% Boss is a Prick
  • 13% Sounds Bad
  • 13% Stop Complaining
  • 15 Ratings

Lying Boss

My boss took time out to send a company wide email patting himself on the back for his new eCommerce site. I designed the site, the site identity, and created a survey for public feedback. Nowhere in the email was anyone on the web development team included for praise. He ...

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Posted: March 9, 2007 | Boss Type: The Credit Stealer | Industry: Publishing |

What others think

  • 50% Boss is a Prick
  • 50% Sounds Bad
  • 0% Stop Complaining
  • 4 Ratings

Micro-mismanagement

My (old) boss came from academia and has a PhD. He has never managed before. I have several years of experience working in the software industry as a an engineer delivering industry standard code. This guy has none. He does extensive experience in academia.

I appreciate academic credentials. I wanted ...

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Posted: March 9, 2007 | Boss Type: The Criticizer | Industry: Software |

What others think

  • 100% Boss is a Prick
  • 0% Sounds Bad
  • 0% Stop Complaining
  • 8 Ratings

Nothing is good enough

Several members of our marketing team just found out that our boss, the director of our department, reported to our VP and several other upper Managers that he felt our entire department was underperforming. He said this after we posted a record high year in terms of sales and revenue ...

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Posted: March 9, 2007 | Boss Type: The Criticizer | Industry: Consumer Products |

What others think

  • 100% Boss is a Prick
  • 0% Sounds Bad
  • 0% Stop Complaining
  • 4 Ratings

couldn't hate him more #2

My inital post outlined how working for my boss had been, i.e. that he is a pervert who refuses to believe or accept that his actions upset anyone... this hasn't changed!, however three days ago I told him that I was going to tell his wife everything, his ...

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Posted: March 9, 2007 | Boss Type: All Purpose Asshole | Industry: Financial |

What others think

  • 77% Boss is a Prick
  • 11% Sounds Bad
  • 11% Stop Complaining
  • 9 Ratings

My Lying Boss

My lying boss - he is booked to speak at a vip event, he supposedly gets called for jury service at one weeks notice asking him to attend on a Friday when the system is that you get called on a Monday - I know he is lying, he has arranged to ...

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Posted: March 2, 2007 | Boss Type: All Purpose Asshole |

What others think

  • 25% Boss is a Prick
  • 8% Sounds Bad
  • 65% Stop Complaining
  • 35 Ratings

Thanks a lot!

I have worked for this particular company for almost 13 years. I have recently found another job outside the company, and gave a three week notice-pretty generous I thought-most people only give two. My boss sent out an e-mail last week inviting a bunch of people to my going away ...

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Posted: March 2, 2007 | Boss Type: The Insensitive | Industry: Utility |

What others think

  • 89% Boss is a Prick
  • 5% Sounds Bad
  • 5% Stop Complaining
  • 19 Ratings

King Fudgehole

So, you think you have a bad boss, how's this: My boss constantly interjects into phone calls, we must sign out on little grease board letting the king know where we are at, we must write a personal SOP on how we do our job, we are scolded for ...

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Posted: February 23, 2007 | Boss Type: The Micro Manager | Industry: FedGov - Tobyhanna |

What others think

  • 66% Boss is a Prick
  • 22% Sounds Bad
  • 11% Stop Complaining
  • 9 Ratings

Underappreciated

There is a small dedicated team of us that work throughout asia pacific in IT Support. I am the only one of that team that works in the same office as our boss. I very rarely ever get any positive feedback from him. I have always been proactive but when ...

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Posted: February 22, 2007 | Boss Type: The Criticizer | Industry: IT |

What others think

  • 72% Boss is a Prick
  • 18% Sounds Bad
  • 9% Stop Complaining
  • 11 Ratings

Little man, big complex

After a lengthy cold war between my department and another, the two were merged and my boss ended up being a little man with a big attitude and multiple harassment charges. (Miraculously got away with it) He hated me, as I stood up to him all those years and had ...

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Posted: February 22, 2007 | Boss Type: All Purpose Asshole | Industry: Higher Ed |