Who's the worst boss?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzboss0728,0,6337223.story?coll=ny-business-leadheadlines

For someone who writes about bad bosses as much as I do, you would think I had a catalogue of my own personal horror stories. But, while I certainly had a brief and scary excursion to Devil-Wears-Prada land, most of my bosses have been distracted and benign at worst, or supportive and creative at best.

That is not the case with those who are posting "My Bad Boss" stories in an online contest being run at WorkingAmerica.org. For the next five weeks, workers can vent at WorkingAmerica.org/badboss, and site visitors can vote.

Among those that viewers are signaling as the best worst boss stories:

-- The attorney who would call his office at 8:05 a.m. from his bathroom, giving instructions as he did his morning eliminations, brushed his teeth and even showered – this all on speaker phone.

-- The restaurant manager who not only dismissed his waitress's concerns about a customer who scrawled love notes to her on placemats and started stalking her, but actually hired the offender to bus tables.

-- The vacationing manager who screamed at a woman for taking the day off to bring her husband, newly-diagnosed with a brain tumor, to visit a surgeon. The boss insisted the woman bring in a note from the doctor.

FULL story at link.

[CTyankee]

1. I've had it with bosses!

I have had 3 bosses in my entire life that have been great and wonderful.The others ranged from mediocre to awful. I am so glad to be fully retired now. I cannot imagine life with a job any more.

Can't tellyou what to do if you have a bad boss. Probably get another job very fast and quit. Just don't stay in a bad situation.

Eventually, everyone dies. Just remember that...

[Double T]

2. Only the good die young; the evil, wretched, miserable, rotten bastard bosses.........

live forever.

[CTyankee]

4. Actually, as I look back, the worst bosses can be the incompetent ones.

I had one who flailed around, clearly over her head in her job and clearly fudging her credentials to get the job in the first place, who ended up blaming me and tried to get me fired. She was fired first though. At that point I had a frail elderly mother and a disabled brother whose affairs I was managing, so I set a date for my "retirement." Had a nice going away luncheon and presents. But it was nerve wracking for awhile there...

[Double T]

3. bush is the epitome of a really bad boss..............

yet somehow with all of his failings, incompetence, destruction, damage, lies and atrocities he continues to reign in the highest position in our land. Pathetic.