I’ve been giving people advice on how to deal with bad bosses for a decade. These are the worst stories I’ve ever heard (the boss who let an employee's horse die is definitely in the top three).
One of the first things that alarmed me was that I learned the company’s CEO has our email system set up so that he is automatically blind copied on every single email that is sent out from a company address. … They also recently installed security cameras that include audio in each of our offices. I am fine with having video surveillance for common areas, but it feels odd to me that my boss could be watching me from his office at any point in the day without my knowing.
Last week at the branch the owner works out of most of the time, his assistant went around to schedule days off for everyone so they could go get tested. People who declined were let go. … I’m in remission from cancer. I’m ineligible to donate and any kind of surgery would put a major strain on my system. Even if I was healthy, I would still object to possibly being forced into donating an organ just to keep my job.
I asked my manager why he hadn’t let me know what was going on and he said he was going to let me know at lunch time and I could leave then. … The kicker in all of this? That morning, my manager had me hosing walkways because he “didn’t have anything else for me to do.”Think it’s bad that your boss won’t stop calling you when you’re out sick?
told an employee to leave a work note at the grave that he expected a bereaved colleague to be visiting:Three weeks ago one of my coworkers lost a relative. She has been off work on bereavement and family leave. Our boss isn’t happy with her being off for so long. Since it is out of his control and he doesn’t get to approve or deny her leave in this case I have been doing my best to ignore him whenever he complains.
Last week my boss gave me an envelope with my coworker’s name on it and told me to leave it at the grave of my coworker’s relative. He said it was a condolence card at first, but I didn’t buy it because our work had already sent a card. When I asked him about it again, he said it was a note with some work-related items only she knows about and he needs answers ASAP and she won’t answer her phone when he calls her. He gave me directions to the cemetery and everything.