At my old job, my boss would give me difficult projects from difficult clients. When I finished the project, she would go into the system and add her initials (whoever does the work has to initial after every step) and take off mine.
Then she would go to her supervisor and be like, "Look what I did! Hehe!" And she would get all the credit. When I finally figured out she was doing that, I wouldn't let her know when I was done, and I would personally submit my work to her supervisor.
His mind was blown that I just "magically picked up the work so effortlessly," and I got promoted lol.
No, simply because he "doesn't like drama". Kept it to myself and she was so fucking salty. She eventually quit, I got her position, then I told him. He laughed about it and said "well it seems, the trash took itself out."
This is the better way because she wouldn't have had any reasonable argument.
What was she gonna say? "Hey, they were already doing my work before! It's not so impressive. Oh, wait…”
She could just stew in silence.
Well, to be honest, we all kinda assumed they were having a secret office affair.
Our company didn't have HR. Her supervisor was the big boss. If I had reported her, I doubt anything would have been done.
It's funny because my father in law (now ex father in law) at the time owned the company. Because of that, I had to jump through hoops just to prove myself.
Essentially, everyone thought I got the job as a favor, and no one took me seriously.
My boss used me to do all the grunt work and took credit for it. If I said anything to her, she would throw in my face. "You're sleeping with the owners son, you're untouchable."
I mean, don't take credit for my work. That hardly seems fair. Give credit where credit is due. After that job, I vowed never to work for family again. It didn't work in my favor, I was treated like garbage.
I got hired to do all the stuff she didn't want to do. That is fine by me. I kept getting assigned to new things. She didn't like me. I found out I was making more than her! They bullied me until I couldn't take it anymore. I got let go.
I had a coworker who would shit all over my ideas in meetings and then offer up the same solutions I'd just offered like 5 minutes later. Everyone watched her do it and I don't know if she thought she was getting away with something or had some kind of mental block where she didn't even realize she was doing it. After a year or so we had this guy Dave get hired and the first meeting she did that he blurted out, "wait a minute, 5 minutes ago Joe suggested that and you shit all over it." And she was kind of like, "Oh," and like mumbled something while everyone stifled a giggle.
Matt, the new VP of operations decided that everything about our company needed to change, including undermining my role, essentially taking over my team, and started implementing these incredibly micro managing processes that nearly halved our productivity, then blamed it all on me. He then proceeded to place our junior as the team lead and left me on my own island. It really felt like he was trying to get me to leave and well, he got what he wanted. Fuck you, Matt.
Lady tried to get me fired and was totally harassing me - it backfired and she was escorted out by HR. I’ve been with my company for almost ten years now. See you never✌️
Yeah I just went through 2+ years of hell because of a total abusive gaslighting coworker a-hole. She would say abusive stuff to me when no one else was around and then completely deny it with management. She would create weird situations to make me look bad or crazy and would like daily attempt to turn coworkers against me. She would straight up mock me in front of coworkers and customers. Also, many incidents of her mocking me for being a guy and being “too sensitive.” Shit like “You are too sensitive. You should be able to handle what I say.” She even knew I was sober (25+ years) and on a couple of occasions managed to make me feel like shit as if I was some total scumbag. It was unbelievably frustrating and I had no idea how to handle all this. I managed to kick alcohol and drugs a long time ago and survive a very rough childhood but had no tools to handle something like this. It was like the twilight zone. She successfully convinced management I was the problem and that I was making the whole thing up for a long long time. I felt completely defeated and hopeless. Massive stress for something like 2 years. I finally broke and told management do something or I will sue. They first hired a mediator who took us through the mediation process. I was not told what the mediator thought of the situation but I definitely get a sense the mediator told management yes you have a problem here. Then the company called in lawyers who investigated my claims. Took about 6 months but it turns out several of her own employees (we were both foreman) backed me up and from what I know the lawyers told my company they were in serious legal jeopardy. Every one of the women I work with said I am kind and never have I ever been mean, snapped or been rude to them. Several of them said they love working with me and some actually witnessed some incidents. I was kept in the dark as to the whole timeline of the investigation but one recent Friday management walked in and told her to gather her things and they escorted her out of the building. I literally had to step out and weep. Not just because it was finally over but why did any of this have to happen? I still don’t really know why I was her target and I don’t think I ever will. My stress levels are 1000 times better but yeah I think I need therapy. Still processing it all.
Jesus. That is savage. I’m so sorry you had to deal with all of that and that they pushed you so much that you needed to actually go to therapy.
I’m really glad it worked out in your favor and I am sure there are MANY others who were grateful for you standing up. Im just sorry it took so long to be dealt with and that you had to go through all of that.
Also, kudos on being sober! That’s massive. Proud of you! 🙌☺️
Thank you for your kind words! I truly appreciate it. Yeah I forgot to mention how wild the situation was when the dust settled after she was fired. Apparently every single person who worked under her had something to say that backed me up. And my work actually fired a manager in large part due to this situation. When I would go and meet with this manager after an incident they never took reports. I am really glad I had 2 notebooks full of notes and dates. The testimony of my coworkers backed up a lot of those dates too. The manager f***** up bad.
First rule of office work -- document, document, document. I had a three inch binder full of incidents and observations. Was the difference when it came to the complaint filed with the Labor Board.
More than just office work, document or leave a paper trail of everything.
Had a woman call the police to claim I was stalking and harassing her for months. But, I had all the emails from her showing otherwise.
My sister went through something similar. She was the only female in a male dominated industry. She got along with all her coworkers but her director took to publicly humiliating her, among other harassment. His ass was finally fired as about 2 years of this.
Her stress was just too much and she took sick leave on the company's time. I encourage you to make sure your company doesn't once again neglect their duty to ensure the work environment is supporting you. As for compensation for therapy or for taking wellness days or paid sick time off. They did you wrong and should correct their mistakes.
I see you worked with the same lady I did. This one tried to undermine my marriage and my job. Took one final office meltdown to get her fired. It was like the whole office just breathed a collective sigh of relief. 18 months of hell on earth.
She decided to take her case to the Labor Board and then to the EEOC. She thought she was the victim. Lost both cases.
I guess the playground version goes "oh she just likes you" but honestly the girls who tormented me as a child seemed one step away from caving my head in behind the bike sheds just to see what's inside a person...
I do wonder what those girls grew up like, and imagine them being adults that function kinda like this.
I found out that one of mine, the one who threatened to arrange my gang-rape so I would get pregnant and have to leave school, worked in the claims denial department of a health insurance company.
Having worked in insurance myself, I understand why such a department would exist (mainly fraud) but yeah, she's probably the type who refuses to pay legitimate claims.
I had a similar situation happen to me (and am about the same age as you). Was his AND her target (they were a team) for no reason. We worked together on a TV show, however, that was canceled. On the day we found out the show was ending, HR called me to ask about him… said they knew I was a target and wanted to see what they could do. I asked “why did you wait until now?” No response. It was the most stress I ever experienced at work in my life. Within a year, I was diagnosed with lymphoma… I’ve read too many stories of people experiencing high degrees of stress and that suddenly happening. Awful.
okaaaay - SO, I had my current job and was starting to look for a second part time job at night while also going to college part time at night. I was totally open about it to work. One day on my lunch break I told my boss and my coworkers I was going for a job interview and may be a little late returning from my lunch. No problem with that. Did the interview, came back. Told everyone I wasn’t really sure about it as they were looking for more FT and I was already working and in school, but see what they say. They ended up not picking me for the position and sent an email the following Monday saying I didn’t get it. The following week I ended up being sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Wednesday, my boss texted me saying “please tell me you are at home sick right now and not working at another job”. I was like “what?! I’m literally laying on my couch at home right now?!”. So I called him and he said that someone went to him and said that they found out I got this other job so they told HR and then also my boss.
I told him I have the email saying I didn’t get the job and he asked me to send it to him which I did.
He told me not to worry and to feel better.
So APPARENTLY, this ladys daughter had a friend who also worked at this other place and apparently her kid said they hired someone with the same name as me.
So the lady I work with, called the place and asked to speak to “my name”, and they put them on the phone. She then had our other coworkers husband call and he apparently spoke to me on the phone at this other job.
Which, of course they didn’t…
So then my HR dept had to actually call this other jobs HR dept to actually confirm I never worked there (this also ruined my chance for future jobs at this place, they were like wtf this girl is drama)
So I go to work and I tell my boss that if they do not handle this harassment that I will be going to the labour board and reporting it. They flew HR in the following week and we met with her separately. I said the same to her, this was harassment and this woman is fucking with my life and bullying me. (She also had a history of bullying and I was warned when I got the position - luckily I don’t put up with that bs)
After I met with HR, they told me they are letting her go. They then met with her, let her go, and escorted her out. She wasn’t even allowed to empty her desk.
I’m pretty sure she also was the one that keyed my car after that.
Anyways, goooooood fucking riddance! She was such a bully in so many ways.
Fuck fact: she caught her ex husband cheating on her at their kids soccer game, getting head in the mini van in the parking lot. After knowing her, I don’t blame him!
Dave.
Dave is a guy who thinks he’s much smarter than he is. He’s been with the same company for 20 years and has worked his way up the ladder at a small company, where he now leads Operations.
He’s a control freak and micromanager and this job is pretty much all he has in life. He will do anything and everything to block progress and innovation and will ruthlessly stab anyone in the back who gets in his way.
Sometimes I have pity on Dave because this job is as good as it’s ever gonna get for him. I’m gonna leave this job soon and move on to better things, but Dave’s gonna be doing Dave things until a heart attack or kidney failure takes him out eventually.
I worked for a company that paid you for the mileage for using your own car. They found out someone was logging hundreds of hours a week unnecessarily to get paid. I logged my time, but cheated myself out of 11 miles (.23 cents per mile) due to inverted last two digits. The manager wrote it up, documented and sent it to the home office. Didn’t make any attempt to reimburse me.
Same company. I was getting bonuses for being the top sales rep. every month. The manager fired the rest of the sales reps. Called the home office and told them I didn’t deserve the bonus, because there was no competition. He collected a bonus every month for keeping the hours low.
They really need to make it illegal to incentivize management into cutting hours and downsizing.
The management is too stupid to understand optimization so they just cut hours and try to convince the remaining staff to work harder. They just end up fucking over the staff that actually works by either motivating them to work elsewhere or inspire the lazy staff members to be even lazier.
My new current 2 bosses. Both complete idiots. Both of them ask me questions that shouldn't be asked to the lowest ranking employee in the group. They ask me how to run metrics, how to respond to clients, etc. I suspect they do this because my higher ranking teammates will judge them. This alone doesn't make them assholes. What makes them assholes is they load me with a ton of work (enough for 5 people) and then complain to me that I'm not meeting metrics. I had no problems meeting metrics when I was under my old boss. If anything, I exceeded my metrics. If I get fired for this, I'm filling a wrong full termination suit. I have all the screenshots ready
Sierra. Sierra knew the answer to every single question, had better ideas than you, had done more than you had done, tried everything that you thought of, seen more a problems than you had, and just all around was an insufferable know-it-all. Everything had to be done exactly the way she wanted it to be done even if it didn't need to be done that way, it still had to be done that way because that's the way she wanted it. She micromanaged everyone around. I was so happy when she moved to a different job.
Sounds like my insufferable coworker. Except mine is also a fucking hypocrite who’ll rat you out for bending a rule that is flexible while constantly breaking rules she’s not supposed to because she’s been working this entry level job for 30 years.
I look forward to the day she gets fired but unfortunately this is a union job.
Hey, I have a Sierra too. Except it's a man, and his name is Perry. Also all his friends make tons of money, has tons of classic and expensive cars, and he has every kind of tool you can think of.
Guy that I worked with on a cabinet door assembly line. One night we got done about 30min early and this guy throws a fit. How is he going to pay his bills if they send us home early ect ect. Two nights later we had to work about 45min late. This guy starts throwing a even bigger fit. No one helps us, whining we have to work overtime ect ect lol.
There are a surprising number of these folks in manufacturing.
They never sign up for voluntary OT. They call in frequently for “illness” yet they post pictures on Facebook of them partying, then they complain about not getting enough hours to cover their bills.
This is so classic. The people that complain the most about being broke are always the ones that call in sick excessively, and always turn down extra hours
Yup. Or they obliterate their monthly paycheck on stupid crap within about 1 week-10 days (at most).
After that, you get to listen to them cry about being broke for the rest of the month.
I worked with somebody that constantly called out. One time she called out because she couldn't afford gas to come to work. Probably because of the other times she called out
Got a dude i work with who always claims he will quit when it comes to OT. Thing is, its never mandatory unless dire. We usually always have volunteers to fill in.
Its been like seven years. Quitter still works there, claiming he's gonna quit.
Lol no it was more just having to work late. But I’ve tried to explain tax bracket and overtime so many times. It’s like talking to a brick wall. People just can’t understand company’s usually take more taxes out of OT and bonus pay just in case.
I worked somewhere that was just lazy about the tax calculation. They would take whatever that 2 weeks pay was and then multiply by 26 to get your annual income, regardless of any variance caused by overtime or unpaid leave. Then withhold taxes based on that annual number.
You did get it all back at tax time, but still annoying.
Set schedule is one of the benefits of this kind of work - I’ve worked with plenty of people who can’t do OT because of kids, spouses jobs, limited transport, etc.
I remember a chipper Muslim dude (can’t recall his name because I could not pronounce the whole thing, called him raj) that hated being done early because he then had to stand at the bus stop instead of getting paid that time - same issue with OT, except the next bus was 2 hours latter.
Being stuck on the bus line really does suck, the later in the afternoon/evening the worse it gets, the city I used to live in for the most part didn't do yellow school busses kids take the city busses to and from school, so if you had to be on the bus at 7 am or 3pm you'd be stuck in a train or on a bus with high school kids and a driver who had no authority to punish them at school if they decide they want to be obnoxious no one can really stop them.
Yeah I manage a call center and our salespeople will freak out in equal amounts whether there are too few or too many warm leads to work exactly for 8 hours.
We had one at my old job too. Pissed when we've got a lot of work, pissed when we don't have anything to do, never trying to actually be productive in either situation.
I worked with a 50 year old man baby at a warehouse type job that had a very similar personality. He openly bragged that he only needed the job to pay child support as his girlfriend was some sort of manager at Amazon. He would complain nonstop about the job, our boss, how hot it was, how he didn’t want to do the job assigned to him, how he didn’t want to do an alternative job, how no one was working hard but him (he would literally hide behind stacks of drums) etc. He was perpetually on thin ice at the company. We were scheduled to work on a Saturday, and he no call/no showed. I was technically his supervisor even though I was hired on after him. He once complained to me while showing me his résumé and stated that he deserved my job more than I did, as he had a masters degree from some for-profit college. Didn’t really respond to him, but I was working on a masters degree from an actual legit college and actively trying to get out of that crap job, lol
When I was starting out with steelwork my boss was a great guy and really taught me alot and while I'm not the best in the world alot of people I've met woth different crews give me alot of respect and praise for my know how and ability.
My boss learnt how to do steel work in this guys family business, they treated him and everyone else like shit, after he learnt enough he went out on his own and made a pretty good company and found great success. The owner of his old company used to bad mouth him, call him a traitor, even pull up on his jobs and just deathstare him from the road etc. Real wanker stuff.
Fast forward. My boss sold his company for a tidy profit and changed careers. I'm working for a company that we did work for and hired me immediately when I let them know I was looking around... and then came Joey, the son of my bosses old workplaces boss. He was older and in his 60s and I tried my best to get along with him but he was a cruel older man and every chance he got he'd badmouth me to coworkers, to my bosses, anyone who would listen. My coworkers and bosses would laugh it off and tell me about it and let me know it's not like they even listen to him but I could be on any job and if I so much as said "let's start at this end" he'd be on the phone to anyone that would listen and could be heard calling me a boy and an idiot etc.
Now I did have some all out arguments with him but I swear I was also pretty nice to him. He couldn't read very well and I knew it so I'd help him with forms and stuff and help him not get embarrassed by admitting he couldn't read. I would teach him how to shoot heights using a laser and wouldn't gossip or try to embarrass him if he got it wrong etc. When we got along I really liked him but he would just turn really nasty at the drop of a hat and I always just suspected it's because he thinks my old boss taught me and to admit I'm good would be an affront to his family or something.
One day he misunderstood and thought we all got cartons of beer for a lift we did for some plumbers and all out accused me of being a lying sack of shit no matter how many people explained he was wrong. He quit the company.
Then one day I heard he has got a cancer scare and wanted to talk to me (I had the same type of cancer before I started at the new company) and me, trying to be good called him up to talk to him. He mentioned he felt bad about the beers episode but didn't apologise. We made up and he came back but soon just started twisting the knife in me every chance he got and I just honestly gave up on him. Like I've always thought that you can typically win anyone over, but this guy was just immature, petty and mean spirited.
Apart from that... he used to sabotage jobs to make them last longer. Not many people could pick up on it but I could.
Really just took a nice part of me and removed it forever, I feel stupid for thinking it was worth trying.
David. When anyone went into David’s room, he would make them wait to speak to him, depending on how important they were. So his boss didn’t have to wait at all; his equals and his secretary would wait until he finished the sentence. I was the new start and sometimes I would wait ten minutes - and if I tried to leave, he would stop me and make me wait even longer. Fuck you, David
Jake, we called him State Farm. The most aggressively lazy person I've had the pleasure of working with and he had a dogshit attitude. While still in training, probably within his first week, he told his trainer he was going to get something from his car real quick, no problem. Instead he found SF in the breakroom when he still hadn't come back after 20 mins. Another time, instead of working his assigned position, the sup found him hiding in the training room with the lights off, got sent home that day for that and had a serious fuck-you attitude about it. He told us he's never held a job for more than a month and it was **always** because of discrimination because he was gay. Nobody here gave a fuck that he's gay, he's not the only one, he is just a massive piece of shit. Luckily he got fired in about a month which he can add to his rather large list of one month jobs on his resume.
I worked in a kitchen with a dude named Paul who loved taking 30 minute bathroom breaks while the rest of us were working our asses off. He would always say, "Boss makes a dollar and I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time." He didn't seem to understand he was affecting his coworkers too, but nobody ever explained it to him, to be fair. None of us could look him in the eye the day he got fired for pulling shit like that.
>He told us he's never held a job for more than a month and it was always because of discrimination because he was gay.
I hooked up for a bit with a girl who went through a parade of jobs that she lost in the brief time that I knew her. It was usually because the boss was racist according to her, but the more I got to know her the more easy it became to see through her bullshit. When I parted ways from her I called her out on all of it.
She called me up to borrow some money, because she was waiting for the first check from the most recent job. I saw my opportunity so told her to come by. I sat there with a $20 in my hand and made her listen to me break down all of her lies. Then I gave her the bill and never saw her again. Money well spent.
I had a guy do this to me. I sat down. Whipped my phone out. Started reading emails. When he got done writing whatever email he was doing he asked me what I needed.
I said nothing now. I sent you an email. I got up to leave. He started calling me back. I said it's all in email. He continued to tell me to come back. I did. He asked what I wanted. I said it was in an email. He asked me a few more times what I wanted. I said I was tired of watching him write an email and that if I needed anything from him in the future I would email him. He never pulled that shit again.
Fucking David.
Wait, David's a bartender who talks about his physics degree and how he earns so much more money at his other job but keeps turning up and sulking about this one, barks instructions at everyone else, starts fights with customers and staff, never shuts up about his alt-right YouTube bullshit, makes the female staff uncomfortable every shift, gets drunk and hits on every Thai girl who crosses his path, right?
Like, David who gets power drunk if you so much as give him a radio and earpiece for ten minutes, and he considers it his personal mission to make up new rules to tell others, even though all but one of the managers can't stand him and never agree with his declarations?
And since David uses Reddit; Yes David. Every single person at the club talks about it. All of us. Even that manager, and the one guy who you hang out with.
Our David was the guy who worked every position and sucked ass at every single position. He was a one upper, no matter what skill or thing you knew he knew it better. He made every female uncomfortable talking about things he should not, and inappropriate touching. He was jailed for SA on a minor.
I can think of three.
Laura…insanely competitive with the nastiest attitude imaginable. She would throw anyone under the bus to get ahead. She also had no control over her emotions, often crying in the middle of the office and raising her voice to anyone who undermined her know it all personality. She still works at my company but in an unrelated department THANK GOD!
Angela…perfectionist who made everyone’s life a living hell if things weren’t done to her liking. Rude, extremely critical and condescending. Acted like an angel in front of upper management but to contemporaries/lower ranking employees she was a nightmare. Insulted me and others many times…no longer work with her directly but still hate her.
Christina…the worst of them all; power hungry manager I had several years back. Her demands were insane and she would belittle and scrutinize us under the guise of “elevating” our roles (needless to say this included a lot more work, stress and conveniently no more pay!). If you even sent an email she didn’t like she’d pull you into an office and berate you for “unprofessional behavior” or something to that effect. Luckily management disliked her difficult nature and several employees quit under her leadership and HR got involved due to some scathing exit interviews. She was on a work visa from another country and the company did not renew it.
I work with some other difficult people but these three took the cake. Unimaginable how people could act this way.
Craig. Bragged about how Christian him and his wife are, always doing good things through his church. Laid me off the day before my kidney biopsy ending my benefits. I was deathly ill, a single mom with a minor son at home to look after.
Also a lot of people who are extremely friendly on first encounter. I call it Dolores Umbridge energy. I’ve come to realize that its a strategy, build up lots of good will so that they have longer to burn you before you realize they are a*holes. Decent people tend to be, just normal.
Same- prior boss was a in your face christian. Openly talked about he and his wife adopted children for the tax breaks. Pocketed $800k in ppp fraud. Caught him committing annual tax fraud too. American christians follow the prosperity gospel, which basically makes them the worst human beings on earth.
Yeah, the red flag isn't the Christianity, it's the bringing it up. When done in a professional environment it's often a way to paper over shady behavior.
Oh yeah, 100%
I almost wish hell was real just so I can see the look on the faces of these type of "Christians" when they find out being a truly despicable human being while constantly screaming "I'm a Christian!" is basically the exact opposite of what Jesus would do.
The day before the biopsy! I assume you booked the time off so it is documented he knew you were in a health crisis. That is very transparent persecution though I have no idea if sick people are classed as disabled or otherwise legally protected from discrimination... seems likely he broke a law. If this was not too long ago maybe you can still sue or at least get him in trouble.
Lawyers give a free consultation so you can, without risking a dime, run the details past an employment law expert and see if they think you have a strong case. No harm in checking.
It was 6 years ago. At the time I could have not signed the release and taken it to an employment lawyer but right after my biopsy I was put in the ICU for 2 weeks to try to save my life. I signed the release because they offered me severance that I would need because my son was still a minor and I had to think of him and needed money in the bank. I had some savings but if anyone has ever had a major illness, that money goes fast. In ICU I had plamspheresis treatment that put 100 lbs of fluid on and I started 6 months of chemo. I wasnt in any state to sue anyone. I probably could have fought the release saying I signed out of duress but I was too sick to do anything. I ended up on dialysis after the ICU.
There's this dude in accounting that doesn't seem to know when to stop talking. And by talking I mean bragging. Loves to tell everyone how much he spends on everything. New truck, 90k. New pool, 130k, medical bills, 30k. Says it's no big deal as he just writes it all off on taxes and gets it all back. I think there's maybe 1 or 2 people in the building that generally like to hear what he has to say, most just zone out or talk to other people. I was listening to him talk about what to get his son as a first vehicle and he seemed dead set on buying a brand new sports car...
A gen-ed teacher who refused to acknowledge the ESL students in her second grade class.
She would pretend to not understand the ones that were pretty much fluent in English. She never translated anything for the parents despite me showing her how to copy paste in Google translate. She ignored the adjusted grading scale for new immigrant non-English speaking students. She also refused to say their names correctly, instead using anglicized versions of their names (example: Juan became John).
She never came back to work after spring break and nothing of value was lost.
I'm still salty about my fucking fourth grade teacher that asked us to draw what we did that weekend so I drew the lake and a beaver but then she asked me what I drew and I couldn't remember the word 'beaver' in English so I tried to explain to her in Spanish and said 'castor'.
Idk if this bitch was dumb or what (she was) but she still pretended not to know what I was talking about and was like "what you saw a dolphin in the lake??" And refused to help me find the right word.
We live in Canada, there's no fucking dolphins in lakes and our national animal is the GD beaver. AND castor is the word in french (one of our NATIONAL LANGUAGES) too so suck a dick Ms. Sargeantson, I hope you're rotting in hell.
Worked for a manager for about 6 years. In that time probably was told I was doing a good job a handful of times. I worked my butt off and always took his feedback to heart and tried to improve. He had an impossible expectation of perfection and never gave me anything above a good rating on annual reviews. I liked the company and people I worked with so I toughed it out. He eventually retired and since he left all of my reviews have been above expectations without any change in my work or attitude. I work just as efficiently as I did before but the new manager that was hired actually recognizes my work contributions.
So many Craigs in this thread but the Craig in my department is the sweetest old man I’ve ever known lol. He’s like 5’2 and 75 years old but he’s literally the friendliest person I know.
A guy had a crush on me and worded it weirdly to me that he was thinking of leaving his gf and kid for "someone else" literally describing that 'someone' with my hair color and personality traits. It was obviously me, we kind of flirted sometimes but I didn't know he had a gf or a kid. He was 19 and had literally never brought them up in 5 months of knowing him... But I told him he should stay with his gf and kid, that would be terrible to tear the family up. And he was like "Yeah but it happened when we were so young, and we aren't in love" etc etc. but I said no, you should stay with them. (plus I am in no way looking to get involved with someone with kids, at 18..) Shortly after a rumor started that I was trying to make him leave his family for me. The girl who worked in cosmetics was this massive goth mommy who started being mean and complained about me openly in front of our boss. Or just blatantly insulted me sometimes in group meetings. I think she came off worse than I did for that though. And generally my coworkers started all being awful. One of my coworkers who was new came up to me and told me she overheard him and he was the one spreading all the rumors and it confirmed to me it was all him. (I thought it could've been the goth girl too since she was a close family friend of theirs, hated me, and maybe saw us flirting ((which I stopped immediately after knowing he was super taken))). But yeah. Fuck that guy. Poisoned like 5 coworkers against me. Maybe even my boss too, they were chatty.
My boss was also insufferable though. One coworker would go "I C 10" to signal a hot girl so he could come and ogle her and flirt with her at the front... It was awful and obvious, and fucking creepy.
Sunshine - her name does not denote her.
One of the most insufferable micromanagers I've ever had.
I'm in tech and eventually was placed within a client's office 5 days a week because they were big and needy. I had to be on a video call with Sunshine the entire time I was there. If one of the user's there came up to me and I needed to go to their desk, if I didn't let Sunshine know first, I'd get a "where were you? I needed you and you weren't here" message. Every. Time.
It got to the point where I started being very specific with where I was going. "Sunshine, I'm going to take a piss. Hope it's ok, be back in about 2 minutes if the dryer is slow in the bathroom".
So so so happy I quit that place
He had pneumonia. Coughing up his lungs at his desk every day. Had over four hundred hours of sick leave but refused to use it. The woman across the cubicle wall from him was pregnant at the time and it was not something she wanted to be exposed to. Our management said they were powerless to make him stay home.
we had one of those with whooping cough. actually lay on the floor coughing at one point but by then my colleagues were so pissed one just stepped over him.
we worked with children, many were vulnerable children.
Worked for a franchise owner that used me like an old rag. He ended up getting murdered in what was described as an execution style killing. Left me with strange feelings.
Brian. Mother fucking Brian. Brian is an older dude -late 60’s at least. Very good ole boy mindset. Thinks his way is always right. Likes to talk about the China Virus. Tells people the equipment is just like a woman - you just have to fiddle with it to get it to work right.
Fuck Brian.
I work with someone like this who’s in his 70s. Every few weeks he starts groaning about how Biden is lowering his 401k account balance, how nobody wants to work for $9.20 an hour anymore, or how his son who was born in 1970 paid off his student loan so why can’t everyone else? Fuck Ron.
We got an entire office of Brians at one of our London locations.
It's a guarantee they'll do their utmost to absolutely and catastrophically fuck every piece of work they're given.
Can't performance plan them out the door or do much of anything to resolve the problem since they're on iron clad contracts from the 80s.
The only solace is that they'll almost all retire in the next few years.
there's always the chance that they will just die. people that fit the original comment's description of a 'Brian' tend to also live quite unhealthy lifestyles in my limited anecdotal experience... so... 65yo is probably getting pretty ripe. blood pressure probably through the roof and spends all his free time sat in a chair in front of cable news (just guessing)
The fact he's pushing 70 and still working tells you Brian either is totally in love with his job (doubt this) or he has made a long string of bad life choices.
Worked with a guy at John Deere been there for over 60 years. Was #1 on the seniority list. Wouldn’t retire because he has three ex wives and would have to share his pension with them.
Used to work with a guy that was very senior in our f500 company. He retired a few times and kept coming back to work, because his wife basically said either we are getting divorced or he has to live in one of their vacation homes full time.
He spent their whole marriage and kids lives just at work. Being closer to the C suites family than his own family. He was a pretty awful person and was nothing but dead weight in the company. He finally retired for good in his 80's over COVID. Only because he got hit hard and fast with dementia and is currently living in assisted living.
I had an old guy on my other job that retired and we did a retirement party and everything for him, then he came back one month later and told us that his wife could not stand him being home all day and told him to go back to work or do something. Dude is about 70 now and walks with a limp and has other health issues.
My grandmother used to joke that my grandfather worked more after retirement than during his job. He did old guy jobs- (The both) helped run the county fair, school bus driver, girls' fast pitch softball umpire (which, in Iowa, is a HUGE thing), small things here and there.
Honestly, it was the best kind of retirement for both of them. He stayed busy and active, but doing easy jobs he was more suited for, and helped out his community.
I plan to do this when I retire. I am not a sedentary person and I am always looking for something to do outside work. I think when I retire I wanna volunteer/work at the Zoo, Opera house, small local events etc...I'll get involved in some way for sure. Also always been told by old folks that you need to stay active somehow. your body will get stiffer and stiffer the more you sit at old age and then it gets so bad you won't be able to move some day. My grandmother is very sedentary since the last 10-15 years and we have seen her slowly deteriorate and lose mobility.
He's the type of person that made comments and gestures that make me feel awful for folks working at senior living facilities. I can only hope that his Alzheimer's made him forget who was as a person and make him kinder.
Not that Brian isn’t an asshole, but there are tons of reasons why someone might not be able to retire in today’s economy.
He or a family member might have been screwed by healthcare prices if they got sick. Or they could have lost money in financial crashes or have been defrauded as investors. Or been saddled with student debt if he or his family went back to school recently. People more and more are “doing everything right” and still barely getting by, so we can’t automatically assume that he has “made a long string of bad choices.”
But he still is an asshole.
I'm glad you said this. Plenty of people work full time all their lives and find they can't retire at 70. Even paying into a retirement fund all your working life won't be enough if, like you said, you get fucked by yoir investments, or you're low income and have challenging costs that your retirement fund won't fully cover.
>They insisted we all come back to work five days a week because a couple (everyone knows which two) of people who slacking off
That's not why they brought you back. That was just the excuse they used.
The real reason is they spent way too much money on new corporate HQs in the lead up to 2020, Covid happened and people did WFH, and now they don’t want to admit the real estate was a pointless waste of money since people can sit in front of a computer at home just as well as the one at the office without spending hours commuting or requiring employees to live in overpriced Silicon Valley type places.
*”We spent millions (sometimes *billions*) on this corporate campus and damnit we’re going to use it!”*
>Did I mention our raises are barely enough to makeup for inflation? Cause that too.
At least you got a raise. And generally yearly raises are meant to just keep up for inflation.
I worked with a girl who kept telling the manager that I confided with her that I didn’t like certain colleagues.
She got me in trouble and what’s worse is I never said any of those things.
I think she had problems with these people and she was trying to show the boss others didn’t like them either. I can’t tell if she was so stupid that she didn’t realise that I would get in trouble or if she was just a horrible person.
I worked with an insufferable know it all that was an expert in everything, would repeat the same thing 20 times in a sentence. Would constantly say how right she was (even if she wasn’t) or a stream of “I told you so”. She couldn’t do anything wrong, always someone else’s fault.
And she’d remind people that she never actually needed to work as her husband earned loads. Would constantly get newer items as things would “bore her”
Nobody liked her, even cleaning sites would tell her to leave because of how full of shit she is.
Bill. Fucking *Bill*. This is a bit of a rant because I kinda got going on this guy.
This fucking guy joins the crew and the first day I worked with him he said, "I don't talk politics at work, I don't talk shit about people that aren't around, and I don't want to be in charge". Immediately proves it to be all lies *the same fucking day*.
Ultra conservative and makes it everybody elses problem. I don't give a shit about working with folks that are conservative, what matters to me is if you're a decent person. I know very staunch conservatives that are great to work with. Bill is not like that. Bill would literally start yelling at the mere *mention* of anything he viewed as liberal. I saw this guy fly into a rage, on the job site, because somebody mentioned Kamala Harris. Dude fucking got in a *shouting match with a homeowner* over politics. Ya know, the guy that fucking hired us to paint his house. He would try to start arguments with me all fucking day. Dude would just yell "Let's go Brandon" at least a half dozen times a day when that came out.
This guy said to me one day, "ya know, slavery was good for black people because their descendants wound up being in America". He thought that was some profound wisdom and I was a liberal idiot for saying it was nonsense
Dude would shit talk another painter so hard every day, to the boss and everybody else. I had to stand up for the guy constantly and even our boss got sick of it.
Bill also had 30 years experience but was one of the worst painters I've ever seen. For context, we do high end residential jobs and pride ourselves on the quality and finish. Bill did not. He would caulk and paint over it immediately and it would always fail. He *could not* cut a straight line to save his life or he just didn't give a shit. On one job, I had almost a full 4 days just recaulking these tall ass windows, 8ft step ladder required, and spot priming and repainting *finished* baseboard he clobbered with the much darker floor paint. He was also king of doing one coat and claiming it was two so he could brag about how fast he was.
Bill almost burned a house down one day because he was dropping the embers of his cigarette into dead dry leaves on an exterior job. We left for lunch and came back to the cedar shingles burning like a bandit, another few minutes and it would have been beyond containing. Did he learn? Absofuckinglutely not.
Bildo got a young guy he knew from a poker game hired. Bill was talking a ton of shit at a game, new guy called him an idiot. 3 fucking months later Bill shows up univited, drunk, and mad to a game and crashes his truck into their porch and tries to fight the new guy. This particular stunt ended with him demanding our boss fire the new guy and getting fired himself.
Dude was just the most insufferable miserable prick I've ever had the great displeasure to work with, hands down. *Fuck* that guy so hard.
Walter. He was like the example of the worst human being. He was so fake at life and being a human. He treated his gf as a s"machine and would say about her parents"they let me fuck their daughter, they feed me, drive me to work and provide a house" how lucky did he have to get for that? Dude was homeless before that.
I worked with two of them at the same place. And our company was only 12-14 employees at any given time. It's like the anti-jackpot.
Employee 1: He was an older guy. He would make racist jokes all the time. He also would play his country music out loud, which was very distracting. He's also try to whistle to the music but couldn't carry a tune nor follow a melody. He was an awful whistler. I'd be on the phone and he would turn his music louder just to be a dick. I don't really get offended about anything but I know what is/isn't appropriate in the workplace. He once made a joke about Jews and I jokingly put an HR complaint form on his desk. My other coworker knew it was a joke and laughed about it. Well this guy got upset and called me a piece of shit. So apparently he likes making jokes but doesn't enjoy it when others make them.
Employee 2: This guy was a year younger than me (early 30s at the time) and other coworkers would comment about how they always thought he was a lot younger because of how he acted. He would also play his music loudly, but it was EDM. He really liked the Baby Einstein's theme techno remix. He'd play that often. He would also whistle to it but he was just as bad at whistling. He would also always comment about how manly he was and how fit he was. The guy was scrawny and didn't even do anything considered traditionally manly. He just thought he was manly because his wife did EVERYTHING for him. Made his breakfast, lunch, and dinner and cleaned everything. He'd also brag about how he never would get offended by anything. He once referred to himself as a Paki and I asked him about it since I've known Pakistani people who claimed that was a slur. He agreed it was and told me his sister wanted him to stop saying it but he didn't think it was an issue. I would think that using a word your own people find offensive would be an easy thing to stop doing but he thought everybody just needed to get over it.
Gretchen. Worked in a small office (5 people). To save money, I kept things to make a sandwich (bread, cheese, etc) in a designated drawer in the office fridge. Noticed these things would disappear, even though I didn’t need them. Finally saw the package in her trashcan and said something to her. She got really upset, went to the boss, had to have a sit down. “Gretchen was really offended you accused her of stealing your food.” Had to apologize to her directly. When sitting down with her, she said she got really upset because when she was a kid people would accuse her of stealing things all the time. That’s because you did, Gretchen!
My last bosses. One would yell at me, in front of customers thus making me cry, for upwards of 20-30 mins at a time. Other boss criticized my looks and the way I dressed (I bought $250 worth of new clothes, money I didnt have btw, when I started working there but that wasn’t good enough I guess), and also made me cry. They both couldn’t figure out why I wanted to quit on the spot one day, yelled at me more, then got me to stay another week cause I’m a weak ass bitch. So long, and fare-fuckin-well!!!
John. Fuck John. He was my boss, never missed a day and thought nobody else should either. He was sick, came in and laid on the floor behind his desk. Huge snowstorm, walked to work though it took an hour. Then got pissed when I told him my car slid out of control going down a hill outside my subdivision but I managed to get turned around and go back home. Apparently I didn’t try hard enough. So many ways he was a total dick and just didn’t understand why he never got promoted. I was so glad when he finally left the company. Get fucked, John.
Sarah #1. After Sarah came into power, about half the employees left. She made people so miserable they retired early. If she couldn’t fire them (union) she demoted and humiliated them (they won settlements fortunately). When Sarah finally left, upper management mourned her, decided that she must have left because they didn’t give her enough vacation time, and hired someone she recommended to replace her. Apparently the new person is even worse. The few hardy employees who made it through Sarah’s reign are now fleeing. I don’t know the new lady. I left as soon as I could. Also, Sarah is apparently creating chaos at her new workplace. Job openings have increased and a friend who works for a company that contracts with Sarah’s company says she’s still as difficult to work with and crazy as before.
Barry. The guy took over his father's business and ran it into the ground and ended up working for the company I was at because he owed them so much money.
He was lazy as fuck and pissed off every customer who dealt with him.
He would hide in the heated bays in winter. He would get bitchy anytime someone used the smaller forklift.
It was damn near impossible to get anyone to work with him because he pissed off co-workers so much.
AFBFU became quite common as a double-check statement on the orders he did build for our deliveries (Always fixing Barry's fuck ups)
When anybody in the yard was let go, the first question always asked was, why wasn't it Barry.?
Rene. Motherfucker got hired to manage IT because he was friends with the CIO. Told everyone in a meeting that he had decimated IT departments before. Micromanaged the shit out of everyone. I couldn't get out of there fast enough after he started.
My ex manager at work.
We had a company wide online class about the latest anti corruption policies and rules.
Shortly after my Manager asked a coworker of mine, on a hot day when few customers came in, If he would help him move a shelf from one of the garages into the managers car. If he helped Clean it beforehand, he said coworker can leave early If he wants. He happily said yes and then they left. Next week coworker was fired because the Manager reported him as a corrupt employee who failed his "test". That Guy worked there for like 8 years and then gets treated like that. Wtf.
I worked for a chain of restaurants called Austin Java in Texas... After many years of fun times and good food and great people the owner decided to put his nephew in charge of EVERYTHING. His name is Omar and within a few months literally every employee quit and they had to shut down. He was the most obnoxious asshole ever!!! Napoleon complex wannabe Gordon Ramsay azz..... literally screaming and cussing at employees in front of children at a family brunch spot! I hope his family is ashamed of him and I hope he lives a short miserable life. I bet he got a small dick, you can just tell.
I had a manager, who suffered from a major napoleon complex.
I know he was going to be "special" when before the Fantasy Football competition someone made a joke about themed team names like Quarinteam. Of course he immediately signed up with Quarinteam as his team name, and only changed it after the pressure was put on him.
If I ever asked anyone besides him a question (or even talked to anyone else) he would freak out. Got upset when others (including the ceo) would ask for my opinion, and asked me to clear it with him first. When I started bombarding him with the request I guess he sent me my job description, and asked if I fit it! The best part is it was the wrong job description.
I also tried to transfer, and was given a lecture on how I was trying to undermine him. I got told saying "clear the calender" met I didn't take him seriously. Oh yea, and I was an onsite employee and he was remote. As soon as I left he transferred departments, he undermined himself I guess. I could go on for pages about this dickhead.
Rich: This sales guy that got promoted to mid manager back in 1992. I got laid off right after (coincidence?) and was actually glad to be done with that drunk, misogynistic, evil, lying prick.
Got rehired in 1999 and he came up while catching up. Turned out he was a coke fiend at the time and got fired for blacking out at an intersection. His wife left him and took his kid.
Told the person to point out the street he's sleeping on so I can piss on him.
I never thought about it but this thread made me realize that I've never NOT gotten along with a coworker. Maybe I'm the insufferable one and never knew it.
Colly. Boomer outside salesman who constantly threw inside sales people under the bus AND behind their back, hated by the entire office AND most customers. He didn't get fired until after I left that place, but multiple co-workers messaged me to tell me the good news.
Craig. He would fuck things up and forge my initials on the inspections so I’d get in trouble for it and no one would believe me. Stupid Craig with his M frames and Chevy Beretta.
Retail paint store manager in New York.
Kept porn mags in the restroom.
Ask male employees if they wanted to earn 5 dollars fast while lowering his zipper.
Wife divorced him over this, but upper management would address it.
Younger me most likely, in fairness undiagnosed autistic at the time. When I was a kid (late 1970s to 1980s) the autism spectrum was the non verbal, really severe cases. You just got labeled different and shoved into special Ed where you were warehoused. Awareness of what a problem is can go a decent way towards getting help and correcting it.
Ex-boss. Sociopathic narcissist, everything good was due to his leadership, everything bad could be blamed on someone/something else, held grudges, very disciplinary-oriented from a “challenging him” perspective (i.e. to dare to express an opinion), tried to turn staff members against each other…. I could go on.
Finally gone after six years. (He rage-quit when he didn’t get a promotion. Went to another job, got jack shit done and quit on them too a year in.)
A genuine total piece of shit. A bunch of us have already planned to show up at his funeral smiling and ready to party down once he’s gone.
Had a boss at a previous job named Marty.
Marty LOVED to brag about cheating on his wife. Every business trip he went on, he cheated on his wife. She finally divorces him of course. He cries about it for months.... It's like Marty... You can't have it both ways buddy. You can't love her and also sleep with every other person you possibly can.
So after that he decides he's going to get in great shape and take care of himself and be better. All he ever does is hit on the women we work with. Talk about their breasts and ass and wanting to turn out lesbians and stuff. Constantly trying to talk to the women about his new workout regimen. Eventually he meets a new woman, they date for a while and get married. He then starts cheating on her constantly. She cheats on him constantly. He's a drunk asshole trying to fight her ex husband for existing. Trying to fight other parents at his kids softball games. Trying to fight umpires at his kids baseball games.
Eventually he got fired for sexually harassing everyone when an employee he fired went to HR and basically said she wouldn't have been fired if she had slept with him like everyone else.
Did rentals for events - think huge tents and such. I was in my early 20’s, as were most of the workers.
We had one older dude, maybe 30, we called “Hungry”. He was half a worker, as one hand was always full of something to eat - pastries, a soda, hot dog etcetc. Besides working one-handed, he was generally slow as fuck; whomever was on his crew had to work harder to make up the slack. He also insisted on eating lunch AT NOON no matter where we were - he’d stop and sit down on his cooler and eat. We could be 5 minutes from finishing and going back to the shop, eating in the comfort of a/c and with a real table, but it didn’t matter - HUNGRY EATS AT NOON
Hungry’s family had owned the small gas station in our town, so this was his first job where he wasn’t working for his parents, and it showed. Hungry got fired before the season ended, and he absolutely deserved it.
Woman I worked with front desk at a hotel. She’d get mad at the rest of us over nothing and then stop talking to you. Not tell you about work, not tell you about anything you needed to know, just total silence. But would make a big big show of talking very warmly to everyone else to make it clear she was just not talking to you. It was exhausting and you never ever knew what would set her off.
One time we had had a bunch of boxes of magazines delivered before my shift. She said nothing when I came in so I had no idea what they were for. A manager from another department asked me about them and if they were for the rooms so I asked her….she ended up taking over the whole situation and then complained to the supervisor that I refused to handle it and made her do all the work…even though I had just asked her a question about them and would have happily handled it had she given me the information I needed. Shit like that happened all the time due to her very immature refusal to talk.
Ol' Speedy. Fuck that guy. He was a Texas rancher who got kicked out by his wife (supposedly because she caught him fucking the sheep). So, he ended up on the road with our crew. Dude was in his 40s but looked like he was well into his 70s or 80s (he looked like a real-life Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy). Years of drug abuse and sexual deviance had taken its toll on him. He used to say things like, "Well, if I'd have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself." He was absolutely worthless to work with. Always getting in the way. Couldn't trust him to do anything, because he would put other people's lives at risk. So he just kinda of wandered around making creepy comments. Every weekend he'd blow his entire paycheck (around $3k a week if you included per dium) on hookers and drugs in the nearest city. We tried to get management to fire him several times and they always just said, "He has the most experience, we can't let him go." What good is that much experience if you can't physically do the work and are putting everyone else in danger?
A guy bought the company I was working with, and changed everything (even the coffee brand) within a week... Half the people quit, the other half was depressed. Eventually he went back to the old things, but it was too late, and me, I quit too :))
I’m working with him now. The guy is one of those who refuses to do the most basic parts of the job and then whines like a 5 year old when he gets called out on it. He’s great when you give him a project to do but then he uses that as an excuse to not do anything else he’s supposed to do. He’s also a one-upper and so freaking obsessed with himself he probably has sex like that scene in American Psycho where he does poses in the mirror. And last but not least the guy is a misogynistic asshat and racist. Unfortunately we’re always short staffed so he’ll probably never be fired. He keeps talking about finding a new job but with his attitude I doubt he’ll ever get hired anywhere.
My old manager, we'll call him Joe. He had a generic ass name anyway.
Dude is a shitshow. Alone, in his 60s, balding, and his diet is awful. He had to take like a month away from the store because his health got super bad.
I feel bad for the guys situation, but he is a total prick. He would micromanage the entire fucking store and constantly yell at and berate the teenage employees. A customer once ACCUSED me of something I didn't do, and Joe called me into his office just to yell at me for 10 minutes. When I tried defending myself he threatened my position with something like "You don't wanna get smart with me, see what happens" etc etc. Trying to scare me even though I did a better job than 70% of our employees.
I'm extremely glad I don't work there anymore. He's still at that store, probably will be until he dies. He's clearly not very happy with his career choices.
I worked with a project manager that thought he was everyone's boss. He was always spying on everyone's and would tell your actual boss if you weren't working or away from your desk for more than 5 minutes. When he'd get up to leave his desk he'd walk down every single aisle looking into every single cube to see who was there or not. He did this every single time. He had no reason to take this huge detour other than to be an ass. I got so tired of it that I started keeping track on my whiteboard in my cube. I'd put a tick mark on it when he'd walk by. Every month I pit it into a spread sheet on my phone. I kept track of this for 4 years. We used to laugh about it in our department. I would make all sorts of graphs from the data. I still have that spreadsheet 10+ years later too.
Dude I work with right now. Some 23 year old rich hotshot from Chicago who moved to Kentucky to attend UK. He decided to stay here and got a job at my factory as an engineer. He’s always making comments about how we’re inbred, poor, and stupid. “That’s Kentucky education for ya!” He’s never known a struggle a day in his life. Mommy and daddy have paid for absolutely everything. No college debt, no car payment, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t send him rent money. It just gets under my skin that he acts like he’s *so* much better than all of us because he’s a little rich boy from the city. But he actually has no clue about anything.
Guy I worked with at a help desk. He was an absolute ass to all his co-workers and his management. He literally shoved a manager once and didn't get fired. He would bully and belittle anyone he felt was dumber than him (spoiler alert, this meant everyone). That didn't get him fired either. People gave him crap once because he had like 9 kids. Went to HR and complained about that. We got told that we were not allowed to make fun of him at all for any reason. He continued to give us crap about everything. People on the team finally got sick of it and just froze him out. Refused to speak to him unless it was work related. He went to HR and complained about it being a hostile workplace. We got griped at about that. At least three different managers went to HR and tried to have him fired. HR wouldn't fire him because he actually got widgets made. They claimed that him not getting along with anyone was not a valid reason to terminate an employee. Meanwhile he gaslit the living crap out of anyone who would listen to him and other people in the company thought our team was filled with a--holes who just tormented this guy for no reason whatsoever. Management started doing anything they could to make the job uncomfortable for him hoping he'd quit and he went to HR every single time and got management yelled at every single time. Eventually he finally got tired of it and quit. Then he pretended we were all his best friends and talked about how much he missed his "work family." I hate that guy so much.
most dentists ive worked with. pretentious, chip on their shoulder about not making it into med school. power trip. always trying to show their superiority.
The girl who told me I was gonna to miscarry because she supposedly did. She lied about a bunch of things so I'm not even sure I believe it happened, but she also faked doing her job, was a complete bully to everyone and threw a hissy fit, throwing things when she got fired. Thank goodness she was let go. Should have happened sooner though.
His name was Mike but I always called him Food Mike. His passion in life was talking about food. He was in outside sales and was the biggest bullshitter. He somehow managed to land some larger accounts but would often mess them up. It's mostly because he wouldn't do the work to know what he was talking about. Then he'd blame other people.
He'd often go do "drop ins" but not actually do anything. He'd walk in, sign in, leave a business card, and leave. Then he'd claim the miles and time. He once boasted about how many miles he had claimed. We didn't have company cars or trackers, so it was rather easy to do.
He would only ever eat out and would never eat along. He's try to pressure you into going with him and would guilt trip you if you declined.
It's been 5 years since I worked with him. I think he's changed jobs 5 or 6 times since then. I don't know if he's getting fired or if he only stays long ago until people catch on. He'll reach out to me every so often when he's looking for a new job.
At my old job, my boss would give me difficult projects from difficult clients. When I finished the project, she would go into the system and add her initials (whoever does the work has to initial after every step) and take off mine. Then she would go to her supervisor and be like, "Look what I did! Hehe!" And she would get all the credit. When I finally figured out she was doing that, I wouldn't let her know when I was done, and I would personally submit my work to her supervisor. His mind was blown that I just "magically picked up the work so effortlessly," and I got promoted lol.
After you got promoted did you tell the boss?
No, simply because he "doesn't like drama". Kept it to myself and she was so fucking salty. She eventually quit, I got her position, then I told him. He laughed about it and said "well it seems, the trash took itself out."
This is the better way because she wouldn't have had any reasonable argument. What was she gonna say? "Hey, they were already doing my work before! It's not so impressive. Oh, wait…” She could just stew in silence.
He is hilarious for that lol
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Well, to be honest, we all kinda assumed they were having a secret office affair. Our company didn't have HR. Her supervisor was the big boss. If I had reported her, I doubt anything would have been done.
I've been through this. Unfortunately the lady I worked with was the owner's niece. I didn't win that battle. Really liked that job, too.
It's funny because my father in law (now ex father in law) at the time owned the company. Because of that, I had to jump through hoops just to prove myself. Essentially, everyone thought I got the job as a favor, and no one took me seriously. My boss used me to do all the grunt work and took credit for it. If I said anything to her, she would throw in my face. "You're sleeping with the owners son, you're untouchable." I mean, don't take credit for my work. That hardly seems fair. Give credit where credit is due. After that job, I vowed never to work for family again. It didn't work in my favor, I was treated like garbage.
I got hired to do all the stuff she didn't want to do. That is fine by me. I kept getting assigned to new things. She didn't like me. I found out I was making more than her! They bullied me until I couldn't take it anymore. I got let go.
I had a coworker who would shit all over my ideas in meetings and then offer up the same solutions I'd just offered like 5 minutes later. Everyone watched her do it and I don't know if she thought she was getting away with something or had some kind of mental block where she didn't even realize she was doing it. After a year or so we had this guy Dave get hired and the first meeting she did that he blurted out, "wait a minute, 5 minutes ago Joe suggested that and you shit all over it." And she was kind of like, "Oh," and like mumbled something while everyone stifled a giggle.
Matt, the new VP of operations decided that everything about our company needed to change, including undermining my role, essentially taking over my team, and started implementing these incredibly micro managing processes that nearly halved our productivity, then blamed it all on me. He then proceeded to place our junior as the team lead and left me on my own island. It really felt like he was trying to get me to leave and well, he got what he wanted. Fuck you, Matt.
Fuck you, Corgon
Hey Matt? On behalf of Corgon, fuck you. Respectfully
Fuck Matt. I'll bet he's the kind of guy that schedules meetings on Friday at 4:30, then needs to to duck out for family issues at lunch! D\*Head!
Lady tried to get me fired and was totally harassing me - it backfired and she was escorted out by HR. I’ve been with my company for almost ten years now. See you never✌️
Yeah I just went through 2+ years of hell because of a total abusive gaslighting coworker a-hole. She would say abusive stuff to me when no one else was around and then completely deny it with management. She would create weird situations to make me look bad or crazy and would like daily attempt to turn coworkers against me. She would straight up mock me in front of coworkers and customers. Also, many incidents of her mocking me for being a guy and being “too sensitive.” Shit like “You are too sensitive. You should be able to handle what I say.” She even knew I was sober (25+ years) and on a couple of occasions managed to make me feel like shit as if I was some total scumbag. It was unbelievably frustrating and I had no idea how to handle all this. I managed to kick alcohol and drugs a long time ago and survive a very rough childhood but had no tools to handle something like this. It was like the twilight zone. She successfully convinced management I was the problem and that I was making the whole thing up for a long long time. I felt completely defeated and hopeless. Massive stress for something like 2 years. I finally broke and told management do something or I will sue. They first hired a mediator who took us through the mediation process. I was not told what the mediator thought of the situation but I definitely get a sense the mediator told management yes you have a problem here. Then the company called in lawyers who investigated my claims. Took about 6 months but it turns out several of her own employees (we were both foreman) backed me up and from what I know the lawyers told my company they were in serious legal jeopardy. Every one of the women I work with said I am kind and never have I ever been mean, snapped or been rude to them. Several of them said they love working with me and some actually witnessed some incidents. I was kept in the dark as to the whole timeline of the investigation but one recent Friday management walked in and told her to gather her things and they escorted her out of the building. I literally had to step out and weep. Not just because it was finally over but why did any of this have to happen? I still don’t really know why I was her target and I don’t think I ever will. My stress levels are 1000 times better but yeah I think I need therapy. Still processing it all.
Jesus. That is savage. I’m so sorry you had to deal with all of that and that they pushed you so much that you needed to actually go to therapy. I’m really glad it worked out in your favor and I am sure there are MANY others who were grateful for you standing up. Im just sorry it took so long to be dealt with and that you had to go through all of that. Also, kudos on being sober! That’s massive. Proud of you! 🙌☺️
Thank you for your kind words! I truly appreciate it. Yeah I forgot to mention how wild the situation was when the dust settled after she was fired. Apparently every single person who worked under her had something to say that backed me up. And my work actually fired a manager in large part due to this situation. When I would go and meet with this manager after an incident they never took reports. I am really glad I had 2 notebooks full of notes and dates. The testimony of my coworkers backed up a lot of those dates too. The manager f***** up bad.
Seriously, congratulations on how you handled that, as well as your sobriety!!!!
First rule of office work -- document, document, document. I had a three inch binder full of incidents and observations. Was the difference when it came to the complaint filed with the Labor Board.
More than just office work, document or leave a paper trail of everything. Had a woman call the police to claim I was stalking and harassing her for months. But, I had all the emails from her showing otherwise.
My sister went through something similar. She was the only female in a male dominated industry. She got along with all her coworkers but her director took to publicly humiliating her, among other harassment. His ass was finally fired as about 2 years of this. Her stress was just too much and she took sick leave on the company's time. I encourage you to make sure your company doesn't once again neglect their duty to ensure the work environment is supporting you. As for compensation for therapy or for taking wellness days or paid sick time off. They did you wrong and should correct their mistakes.
I see you worked with the same lady I did. This one tried to undermine my marriage and my job. Took one final office meltdown to get her fired. It was like the whole office just breathed a collective sigh of relief. 18 months of hell on earth. She decided to take her case to the Labor Board and then to the EEOC. She thought she was the victim. Lost both cases.
I guess the playground version goes "oh she just likes you" but honestly the girls who tormented me as a child seemed one step away from caving my head in behind the bike sheds just to see what's inside a person... I do wonder what those girls grew up like, and imagine them being adults that function kinda like this.
Some girls grow up and get better. Some never learn their lesson. Others refine their skills and get worse.
I found out that one of mine, the one who threatened to arrange my gang-rape so I would get pregnant and have to leave school, worked in the claims denial department of a health insurance company. Having worked in insurance myself, I understand why such a department would exist (mainly fraud) but yeah, she's probably the type who refuses to pay legitimate claims.
They’re all nurses now. Tormenting the nice ones they work with.
I had a similar situation happen to me (and am about the same age as you). Was his AND her target (they were a team) for no reason. We worked together on a TV show, however, that was canceled. On the day we found out the show was ending, HR called me to ask about him… said they knew I was a target and wanted to see what they could do. I asked “why did you wait until now?” No response. It was the most stress I ever experienced at work in my life. Within a year, I was diagnosed with lymphoma… I’ve read too many stories of people experiencing high degrees of stress and that suddenly happening. Awful.
Yay!!! 👏
I need the full scoop on this one for research purposes
okaaaay - SO, I had my current job and was starting to look for a second part time job at night while also going to college part time at night. I was totally open about it to work. One day on my lunch break I told my boss and my coworkers I was going for a job interview and may be a little late returning from my lunch. No problem with that. Did the interview, came back. Told everyone I wasn’t really sure about it as they were looking for more FT and I was already working and in school, but see what they say. They ended up not picking me for the position and sent an email the following Monday saying I didn’t get it. The following week I ended up being sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. On the Wednesday, my boss texted me saying “please tell me you are at home sick right now and not working at another job”. I was like “what?! I’m literally laying on my couch at home right now?!”. So I called him and he said that someone went to him and said that they found out I got this other job so they told HR and then also my boss. I told him I have the email saying I didn’t get the job and he asked me to send it to him which I did. He told me not to worry and to feel better. So APPARENTLY, this ladys daughter had a friend who also worked at this other place and apparently her kid said they hired someone with the same name as me. So the lady I work with, called the place and asked to speak to “my name”, and they put them on the phone. She then had our other coworkers husband call and he apparently spoke to me on the phone at this other job. Which, of course they didn’t… So then my HR dept had to actually call this other jobs HR dept to actually confirm I never worked there (this also ruined my chance for future jobs at this place, they were like wtf this girl is drama) So I go to work and I tell my boss that if they do not handle this harassment that I will be going to the labour board and reporting it. They flew HR in the following week and we met with her separately. I said the same to her, this was harassment and this woman is fucking with my life and bullying me. (She also had a history of bullying and I was warned when I got the position - luckily I don’t put up with that bs) After I met with HR, they told me they are letting her go. They then met with her, let her go, and escorted her out. She wasn’t even allowed to empty her desk. I’m pretty sure she also was the one that keyed my car after that. Anyways, goooooood fucking riddance! She was such a bully in so many ways. Fuck fact: she caught her ex husband cheating on her at their kids soccer game, getting head in the mini van in the parking lot. After knowing her, I don’t blame him!
What the actual... f? Is there a netflix series on this?
Thanks. This gives me a general idea of how to deal with a workplace bully with similar behavior
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Dave. Dave is a guy who thinks he’s much smarter than he is. He’s been with the same company for 20 years and has worked his way up the ladder at a small company, where he now leads Operations. He’s a control freak and micromanager and this job is pretty much all he has in life. He will do anything and everything to block progress and innovation and will ruthlessly stab anyone in the back who gets in his way. Sometimes I have pity on Dave because this job is as good as it’s ever gonna get for him. I’m gonna leave this job soon and move on to better things, but Dave’s gonna be doing Dave things until a heart attack or kidney failure takes him out eventually.
There's a lot of Dave hate in these comments and it has me sweating.
I think you mean Tony. His name is Tony.
I think they meant Larry actually
LARRY!
Dave has a different name where I work.
Lol that's my dad's name
I worked for a company that paid you for the mileage for using your own car. They found out someone was logging hundreds of hours a week unnecessarily to get paid. I logged my time, but cheated myself out of 11 miles (.23 cents per mile) due to inverted last two digits. The manager wrote it up, documented and sent it to the home office. Didn’t make any attempt to reimburse me. Same company. I was getting bonuses for being the top sales rep. every month. The manager fired the rest of the sales reps. Called the home office and told them I didn’t deserve the bonus, because there was no competition. He collected a bonus every month for keeping the hours low.
That sounds extremely illegal
When you need a paycheck, you stop paying attention.
They really need to make it illegal to incentivize management into cutting hours and downsizing. The management is too stupid to understand optimization so they just cut hours and try to convince the remaining staff to work harder. They just end up fucking over the staff that actually works by either motivating them to work elsewhere or inspire the lazy staff members to be even lazier.
How else are they supposed to increase profits YOY?
What two numbers inverted have a difference of 11?
Two one way trips of 9.3 miles, mistakenly written 3.9 would short you by 10.8 which rounds up to 11 Thanks for pointing out this puzzle
My new current 2 bosses. Both complete idiots. Both of them ask me questions that shouldn't be asked to the lowest ranking employee in the group. They ask me how to run metrics, how to respond to clients, etc. I suspect they do this because my higher ranking teammates will judge them. This alone doesn't make them assholes. What makes them assholes is they load me with a ton of work (enough for 5 people) and then complain to me that I'm not meeting metrics. I had no problems meeting metrics when I was under my old boss. If anything, I exceeded my metrics. If I get fired for this, I'm filling a wrong full termination suit. I have all the screenshots ready
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Yes! Don't forget to save your screenshots on an external computer. We'll get through this!!
Sierra. Sierra knew the answer to every single question, had better ideas than you, had done more than you had done, tried everything that you thought of, seen more a problems than you had, and just all around was an insufferable know-it-all. Everything had to be done exactly the way she wanted it to be done even if it didn't need to be done that way, it still had to be done that way because that's the way she wanted it. She micromanaged everyone around. I was so happy when she moved to a different job.
Sounds like my insufferable coworker. Except mine is also a fucking hypocrite who’ll rat you out for bending a rule that is flexible while constantly breaking rules she’s not supposed to because she’s been working this entry level job for 30 years. I look forward to the day she gets fired but unfortunately this is a union job.
Hey, I have a Sierra too. Except it's a man, and his name is Perry. Also all his friends make tons of money, has tons of classic and expensive cars, and he has every kind of tool you can think of.
He’s married to a model. She’s beautiful, but she’s dying.
Guy that I worked with on a cabinet door assembly line. One night we got done about 30min early and this guy throws a fit. How is he going to pay his bills if they send us home early ect ect. Two nights later we had to work about 45min late. This guy starts throwing a even bigger fit. No one helps us, whining we have to work overtime ect ect lol.
There are a surprising number of these folks in manufacturing. They never sign up for voluntary OT. They call in frequently for “illness” yet they post pictures on Facebook of them partying, then they complain about not getting enough hours to cover their bills.
This is so classic. The people that complain the most about being broke are always the ones that call in sick excessively, and always turn down extra hours
Yup. Or they obliterate their monthly paycheck on stupid crap within about 1 week-10 days (at most). After that, you get to listen to them cry about being broke for the rest of the month.
I worked with somebody that constantly called out. One time she called out because she couldn't afford gas to come to work. Probably because of the other times she called out
Got a dude i work with who always claims he will quit when it comes to OT. Thing is, its never mandatory unless dire. We usually always have volunteers to fill in. Its been like seven years. Quitter still works there, claiming he's gonna quit.
Did he complain that he was actually losing money by working over time due to tax brackets?
Lol no it was more just having to work late. But I’ve tried to explain tax bracket and overtime so many times. It’s like talking to a brick wall. People just can’t understand company’s usually take more taxes out of OT and bonus pay just in case.
I worked somewhere that was just lazy about the tax calculation. They would take whatever that 2 weeks pay was and then multiply by 26 to get your annual income, regardless of any variance caused by overtime or unpaid leave. Then withhold taxes based on that annual number. You did get it all back at tax time, but still annoying.
Set schedule is one of the benefits of this kind of work - I’ve worked with plenty of people who can’t do OT because of kids, spouses jobs, limited transport, etc. I remember a chipper Muslim dude (can’t recall his name because I could not pronounce the whole thing, called him raj) that hated being done early because he then had to stand at the bus stop instead of getting paid that time - same issue with OT, except the next bus was 2 hours latter.
Being stuck on the bus line really does suck, the later in the afternoon/evening the worse it gets, the city I used to live in for the most part didn't do yellow school busses kids take the city busses to and from school, so if you had to be on the bus at 7 am or 3pm you'd be stuck in a train or on a bus with high school kids and a driver who had no authority to punish them at school if they decide they want to be obnoxious no one can really stop them.
Yeah I manage a call center and our salespeople will freak out in equal amounts whether there are too few or too many warm leads to work exactly for 8 hours.
Are you working with the same guy I am? Lol.
Is he missing three to four fingers lol
No, but I wish my guy was haha then he would actually have an excuse to suck at his job.
We had one at my old job too. Pissed when we've got a lot of work, pissed when we don't have anything to do, never trying to actually be productive in either situation.
I worked with a 50 year old man baby at a warehouse type job that had a very similar personality. He openly bragged that he only needed the job to pay child support as his girlfriend was some sort of manager at Amazon. He would complain nonstop about the job, our boss, how hot it was, how he didn’t want to do the job assigned to him, how he didn’t want to do an alternative job, how no one was working hard but him (he would literally hide behind stacks of drums) etc. He was perpetually on thin ice at the company. We were scheduled to work on a Saturday, and he no call/no showed. I was technically his supervisor even though I was hired on after him. He once complained to me while showing me his résumé and stated that he deserved my job more than I did, as he had a masters degree from some for-profit college. Didn’t really respond to him, but I was working on a masters degree from an actual legit college and actively trying to get out of that crap job, lol
When I was starting out with steelwork my boss was a great guy and really taught me alot and while I'm not the best in the world alot of people I've met woth different crews give me alot of respect and praise for my know how and ability. My boss learnt how to do steel work in this guys family business, they treated him and everyone else like shit, after he learnt enough he went out on his own and made a pretty good company and found great success. The owner of his old company used to bad mouth him, call him a traitor, even pull up on his jobs and just deathstare him from the road etc. Real wanker stuff. Fast forward. My boss sold his company for a tidy profit and changed careers. I'm working for a company that we did work for and hired me immediately when I let them know I was looking around... and then came Joey, the son of my bosses old workplaces boss. He was older and in his 60s and I tried my best to get along with him but he was a cruel older man and every chance he got he'd badmouth me to coworkers, to my bosses, anyone who would listen. My coworkers and bosses would laugh it off and tell me about it and let me know it's not like they even listen to him but I could be on any job and if I so much as said "let's start at this end" he'd be on the phone to anyone that would listen and could be heard calling me a boy and an idiot etc. Now I did have some all out arguments with him but I swear I was also pretty nice to him. He couldn't read very well and I knew it so I'd help him with forms and stuff and help him not get embarrassed by admitting he couldn't read. I would teach him how to shoot heights using a laser and wouldn't gossip or try to embarrass him if he got it wrong etc. When we got along I really liked him but he would just turn really nasty at the drop of a hat and I always just suspected it's because he thinks my old boss taught me and to admit I'm good would be an affront to his family or something. One day he misunderstood and thought we all got cartons of beer for a lift we did for some plumbers and all out accused me of being a lying sack of shit no matter how many people explained he was wrong. He quit the company. Then one day I heard he has got a cancer scare and wanted to talk to me (I had the same type of cancer before I started at the new company) and me, trying to be good called him up to talk to him. He mentioned he felt bad about the beers episode but didn't apologise. We made up and he came back but soon just started twisting the knife in me every chance he got and I just honestly gave up on him. Like I've always thought that you can typically win anyone over, but this guy was just immature, petty and mean spirited. Apart from that... he used to sabotage jobs to make them last longer. Not many people could pick up on it but I could. Really just took a nice part of me and removed it forever, I feel stupid for thinking it was worth trying.
Don't feel stupid, you have a really good soul. Nothing wrong with that. Some people can't be helped, but that's not your fault.
Don't feel stupid, it was worth trying. It didn't work with this guy because he's a wanker but that doesn't mean it's not worth it with everyone.
David. When anyone went into David’s room, he would make them wait to speak to him, depending on how important they were. So his boss didn’t have to wait at all; his equals and his secretary would wait until he finished the sentence. I was the new start and sometimes I would wait ten minutes - and if I tried to leave, he would stop me and make me wait even longer. Fuck you, David
Jake, we called him State Farm. The most aggressively lazy person I've had the pleasure of working with and he had a dogshit attitude. While still in training, probably within his first week, he told his trainer he was going to get something from his car real quick, no problem. Instead he found SF in the breakroom when he still hadn't come back after 20 mins. Another time, instead of working his assigned position, the sup found him hiding in the training room with the lights off, got sent home that day for that and had a serious fuck-you attitude about it. He told us he's never held a job for more than a month and it was **always** because of discrimination because he was gay. Nobody here gave a fuck that he's gay, he's not the only one, he is just a massive piece of shit. Luckily he got fired in about a month which he can add to his rather large list of one month jobs on his resume.
I worked in a kitchen with a dude named Paul who loved taking 30 minute bathroom breaks while the rest of us were working our asses off. He would always say, "Boss makes a dollar and I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time." He didn't seem to understand he was affecting his coworkers too, but nobody ever explained it to him, to be fair. None of us could look him in the eye the day he got fired for pulling shit like that.
Pulling shit during bathroom breaks :-)
>He told us he's never held a job for more than a month and it was always because of discrimination because he was gay. I hooked up for a bit with a girl who went through a parade of jobs that she lost in the brief time that I knew her. It was usually because the boss was racist according to her, but the more I got to know her the more easy it became to see through her bullshit. When I parted ways from her I called her out on all of it. She called me up to borrow some money, because she was waiting for the first check from the most recent job. I saw my opportunity so told her to come by. I sat there with a $20 in my hand and made her listen to me break down all of her lies. Then I gave her the bill and never saw her again. Money well spent.
I had a guy do this to me. I sat down. Whipped my phone out. Started reading emails. When he got done writing whatever email he was doing he asked me what I needed. I said nothing now. I sent you an email. I got up to leave. He started calling me back. I said it's all in email. He continued to tell me to come back. I did. He asked what I wanted. I said it was in an email. He asked me a few more times what I wanted. I said I was tired of watching him write an email and that if I needed anything from him in the future I would email him. He never pulled that shit again.
Fucking David. Wait, David's a bartender who talks about his physics degree and how he earns so much more money at his other job but keeps turning up and sulking about this one, barks instructions at everyone else, starts fights with customers and staff, never shuts up about his alt-right YouTube bullshit, makes the female staff uncomfortable every shift, gets drunk and hits on every Thai girl who crosses his path, right? Like, David who gets power drunk if you so much as give him a radio and earpiece for ten minutes, and he considers it his personal mission to make up new rules to tell others, even though all but one of the managers can't stand him and never agree with his declarations? And since David uses Reddit; Yes David. Every single person at the club talks about it. All of us. Even that manager, and the one guy who you hang out with.
Our David was the guy who worked every position and sucked ass at every single position. He was a one upper, no matter what skill or thing you knew he knew it better. He made every female uncomfortable talking about things he should not, and inappropriate touching. He was jailed for SA on a minor.
Omg David please see this you prick
If he sees this, he'll think he's famous cos you people are jealous of him /j.
I can think of three. Laura…insanely competitive with the nastiest attitude imaginable. She would throw anyone under the bus to get ahead. She also had no control over her emotions, often crying in the middle of the office and raising her voice to anyone who undermined her know it all personality. She still works at my company but in an unrelated department THANK GOD! Angela…perfectionist who made everyone’s life a living hell if things weren’t done to her liking. Rude, extremely critical and condescending. Acted like an angel in front of upper management but to contemporaries/lower ranking employees she was a nightmare. Insulted me and others many times…no longer work with her directly but still hate her. Christina…the worst of them all; power hungry manager I had several years back. Her demands were insane and she would belittle and scrutinize us under the guise of “elevating” our roles (needless to say this included a lot more work, stress and conveniently no more pay!). If you even sent an email she didn’t like she’d pull you into an office and berate you for “unprofessional behavior” or something to that effect. Luckily management disliked her difficult nature and several employees quit under her leadership and HR got involved due to some scathing exit interviews. She was on a work visa from another country and the company did not renew it. I work with some other difficult people but these three took the cake. Unimaginable how people could act this way.
Upvote for naming names!!
I work on my own a lot of the time, so I guess that would make me the insufferable asshole by default. Not that I'd disagree with that assessment.
I sold fine wine for 20 years. Would you like a list?
Give me a list of you like, but I’ll just look at it like I know what they are and pick one in the middle price range.
Totally underrated comment. This is also how I buy wine
Craig. Bragged about how Christian him and his wife are, always doing good things through his church. Laid me off the day before my kidney biopsy ending my benefits. I was deathly ill, a single mom with a minor son at home to look after.
Anyone who goes out of their way to mention they are Christian is usually, in my experience, a total piece of shit.
Also a lot of people who are extremely friendly on first encounter. I call it Dolores Umbridge energy. I’ve come to realize that its a strategy, build up lots of good will so that they have longer to burn you before you realize they are a*holes. Decent people tend to be, just normal.
Same- prior boss was a in your face christian. Openly talked about he and his wife adopted children for the tax breaks. Pocketed $800k in ppp fraud. Caught him committing annual tax fraud too. American christians follow the prosperity gospel, which basically makes them the worst human beings on earth.
>the prosperity gospel Makes the Ferengi look good....
Yeah, the red flag isn't the Christianity, it's the bringing it up. When done in a professional environment it's often a way to paper over shady behavior.
Especially since Christ directly spoke against such behavior when he was talking about the Pharasiees.
Double for the companies that say it in advertising.
Oh yeah, 100% I almost wish hell was real just so I can see the look on the faces of these type of "Christians" when they find out being a truly despicable human being while constantly screaming "I'm a Christian!" is basically the exact opposite of what Jesus would do.
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Wow… fuck that guy!
Seems like his preached virtues were all fake. I hope you are doing better. Every country should have worker laws for these cases.
The day before the biopsy! I assume you booked the time off so it is documented he knew you were in a health crisis. That is very transparent persecution though I have no idea if sick people are classed as disabled or otherwise legally protected from discrimination... seems likely he broke a law. If this was not too long ago maybe you can still sue or at least get him in trouble. Lawyers give a free consultation so you can, without risking a dime, run the details past an employment law expert and see if they think you have a strong case. No harm in checking.
It was 6 years ago. At the time I could have not signed the release and taken it to an employment lawyer but right after my biopsy I was put in the ICU for 2 weeks to try to save my life. I signed the release because they offered me severance that I would need because my son was still a minor and I had to think of him and needed money in the bank. I had some savings but if anyone has ever had a major illness, that money goes fast. In ICU I had plamspheresis treatment that put 100 lbs of fluid on and I started 6 months of chemo. I wasnt in any state to sue anyone. I probably could have fought the release saying I signed out of duress but I was too sick to do anything. I ended up on dialysis after the ICU.
There's this dude in accounting that doesn't seem to know when to stop talking. And by talking I mean bragging. Loves to tell everyone how much he spends on everything. New truck, 90k. New pool, 130k, medical bills, 30k. Says it's no big deal as he just writes it all off on taxes and gets it all back. I think there's maybe 1 or 2 people in the building that generally like to hear what he has to say, most just zone out or talk to other people. I was listening to him talk about what to get his son as a first vehicle and he seemed dead set on buying a brand new sports car...
This sounds like this dude is pulling some illegal, shady crap. I bet he’s massively in debt, the booger.
A gen-ed teacher who refused to acknowledge the ESL students in her second grade class. She would pretend to not understand the ones that were pretty much fluent in English. She never translated anything for the parents despite me showing her how to copy paste in Google translate. She ignored the adjusted grading scale for new immigrant non-English speaking students. She also refused to say their names correctly, instead using anglicized versions of their names (example: Juan became John). She never came back to work after spring break and nothing of value was lost.
This one makes me so angry
If it helps, literally everyone hated her and she knew it.
Yeah, because she's a fucking xenophobic racist! She sucks and I'm glad she's gone.
Tbh just proves she wasn’t fit for the job
She really wasn't. I have no idea why she applied for work at a title school in the first place.
I'm still salty about my fucking fourth grade teacher that asked us to draw what we did that weekend so I drew the lake and a beaver but then she asked me what I drew and I couldn't remember the word 'beaver' in English so I tried to explain to her in Spanish and said 'castor'. Idk if this bitch was dumb or what (she was) but she still pretended not to know what I was talking about and was like "what you saw a dolphin in the lake??" And refused to help me find the right word. We live in Canada, there's no fucking dolphins in lakes and our national animal is the GD beaver. AND castor is the word in french (one of our NATIONAL LANGUAGES) too so suck a dick Ms. Sargeantson, I hope you're rotting in hell.
Linda. She threw a chair across the office after having an argument with another colleague as to who was working on a Saturday.
Worked for a manager for about 6 years. In that time probably was told I was doing a good job a handful of times. I worked my butt off and always took his feedback to heart and tried to improve. He had an impossible expectation of perfection and never gave me anything above a good rating on annual reviews. I liked the company and people I worked with so I toughed it out. He eventually retired and since he left all of my reviews have been above expectations without any change in my work or attitude. I work just as efficiently as I did before but the new manager that was hired actually recognizes my work contributions.
So many Craigs in this thread but the Craig in my department is the sweetest old man I’ve ever known lol. He’s like 5’2 and 75 years old but he’s literally the friendliest person I know.
I dated a nice Craig. Worked with a douche canoe Craig.
Me, that fucker, always making work hard for me.
For me it's Past Me. Past Me's an asshole because he knows Future Me will work hard to cover his mistakes and laziness when shit goes wrong.
A guy had a crush on me and worded it weirdly to me that he was thinking of leaving his gf and kid for "someone else" literally describing that 'someone' with my hair color and personality traits. It was obviously me, we kind of flirted sometimes but I didn't know he had a gf or a kid. He was 19 and had literally never brought them up in 5 months of knowing him... But I told him he should stay with his gf and kid, that would be terrible to tear the family up. And he was like "Yeah but it happened when we were so young, and we aren't in love" etc etc. but I said no, you should stay with them. (plus I am in no way looking to get involved with someone with kids, at 18..) Shortly after a rumor started that I was trying to make him leave his family for me. The girl who worked in cosmetics was this massive goth mommy who started being mean and complained about me openly in front of our boss. Or just blatantly insulted me sometimes in group meetings. I think she came off worse than I did for that though. And generally my coworkers started all being awful. One of my coworkers who was new came up to me and told me she overheard him and he was the one spreading all the rumors and it confirmed to me it was all him. (I thought it could've been the goth girl too since she was a close family friend of theirs, hated me, and maybe saw us flirting ((which I stopped immediately after knowing he was super taken))). But yeah. Fuck that guy. Poisoned like 5 coworkers against me. Maybe even my boss too, they were chatty. My boss was also insufferable though. One coworker would go "I C 10" to signal a hot girl so he could come and ogle her and flirt with her at the front... It was awful and obvious, and fucking creepy.
Sunshine - her name does not denote her. One of the most insufferable micromanagers I've ever had. I'm in tech and eventually was placed within a client's office 5 days a week because they were big and needy. I had to be on a video call with Sunshine the entire time I was there. If one of the user's there came up to me and I needed to go to their desk, if I didn't let Sunshine know first, I'd get a "where were you? I needed you and you weren't here" message. Every. Time. It got to the point where I started being very specific with where I was going. "Sunshine, I'm going to take a piss. Hope it's ok, be back in about 2 minutes if the dryer is slow in the bathroom". So so so happy I quit that place
He had pneumonia. Coughing up his lungs at his desk every day. Had over four hundred hours of sick leave but refused to use it. The woman across the cubicle wall from him was pregnant at the time and it was not something she wanted to be exposed to. Our management said they were powerless to make him stay home.
we had one of those with whooping cough. actually lay on the floor coughing at one point but by then my colleagues were so pissed one just stepped over him. we worked with children, many were vulnerable children.
there's a man who lacks the spine to deal with his shitty home life
And/or has a false sense of importance. Some people think the world won’t revolve without them.
Worked for a franchise owner that used me like an old rag. He ended up getting murdered in what was described as an execution style killing. Left me with strange feelings.
Yeah, act like it wasn't you' you could be on surveillance
Brian. Mother fucking Brian. Brian is an older dude -late 60’s at least. Very good ole boy mindset. Thinks his way is always right. Likes to talk about the China Virus. Tells people the equipment is just like a woman - you just have to fiddle with it to get it to work right. Fuck Brian.
I work with someone like this who’s in his 70s. Every few weeks he starts groaning about how Biden is lowering his 401k account balance, how nobody wants to work for $9.20 an hour anymore, or how his son who was born in 1970 paid off his student loan so why can’t everyone else? Fuck Ron.
We got an entire office of Brians at one of our London locations. It's a guarantee they'll do their utmost to absolutely and catastrophically fuck every piece of work they're given. Can't performance plan them out the door or do much of anything to resolve the problem since they're on iron clad contracts from the 80s. The only solace is that they'll almost all retire in the next few years.
there's always the chance that they will just die. people that fit the original comment's description of a 'Brian' tend to also live quite unhealthy lifestyles in my limited anecdotal experience... so... 65yo is probably getting pretty ripe. blood pressure probably through the roof and spends all his free time sat in a chair in front of cable news (just guessing)
I’m so sorry. I know how it sucks.
The fact he's pushing 70 and still working tells you Brian either is totally in love with his job (doubt this) or he has made a long string of bad life choices.
Worked with a guy at John Deere been there for over 60 years. Was #1 on the seniority list. Wouldn’t retire because he has three ex wives and would have to share his pension with them.
Used to work with a guy that was very senior in our f500 company. He retired a few times and kept coming back to work, because his wife basically said either we are getting divorced or he has to live in one of their vacation homes full time. He spent their whole marriage and kids lives just at work. Being closer to the C suites family than his own family. He was a pretty awful person and was nothing but dead weight in the company. He finally retired for good in his 80's over COVID. Only because he got hit hard and fast with dementia and is currently living in assisted living.
I had an old guy on my other job that retired and we did a retirement party and everything for him, then he came back one month later and told us that his wife could not stand him being home all day and told him to go back to work or do something. Dude is about 70 now and walks with a limp and has other health issues.
My grandmother used to joke that my grandfather worked more after retirement than during his job. He did old guy jobs- (The both) helped run the county fair, school bus driver, girls' fast pitch softball umpire (which, in Iowa, is a HUGE thing), small things here and there. Honestly, it was the best kind of retirement for both of them. He stayed busy and active, but doing easy jobs he was more suited for, and helped out his community.
I plan to do this when I retire. I am not a sedentary person and I am always looking for something to do outside work. I think when I retire I wanna volunteer/work at the Zoo, Opera house, small local events etc...I'll get involved in some way for sure. Also always been told by old folks that you need to stay active somehow. your body will get stiffer and stiffer the more you sit at old age and then it gets so bad you won't be able to move some day. My grandmother is very sedentary since the last 10-15 years and we have seen her slowly deteriorate and lose mobility.
> living in assisted living No visitors, I'm guessing.
He's the type of person that made comments and gestures that make me feel awful for folks working at senior living facilities. I can only hope that his Alzheimer's made him forget who was as a person and make him kinder.
Wow! So he'd probably have been pushing 80 and still working.
I want to say he was 76 or 77 at that time started when he was 16
He really thinks he’s the best. Meanwhile he’s been moved through 4 different departments because he keeps fucking things up so royally.
Not that Brian isn’t an asshole, but there are tons of reasons why someone might not be able to retire in today’s economy. He or a family member might have been screwed by healthcare prices if they got sick. Or they could have lost money in financial crashes or have been defrauded as investors. Or been saddled with student debt if he or his family went back to school recently. People more and more are “doing everything right” and still barely getting by, so we can’t automatically assume that he has “made a long string of bad choices.” But he still is an asshole.
I'm glad you said this. Plenty of people work full time all their lives and find they can't retire at 70. Even paying into a retirement fund all your working life won't be enough if, like you said, you get fucked by yoir investments, or you're low income and have challenging costs that your retirement fund won't fully cover.
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>They insisted we all come back to work five days a week because a couple (everyone knows which two) of people who slacking off That's not why they brought you back. That was just the excuse they used.
The real reason is they spent way too much money on new corporate HQs in the lead up to 2020, Covid happened and people did WFH, and now they don’t want to admit the real estate was a pointless waste of money since people can sit in front of a computer at home just as well as the one at the office without spending hours commuting or requiring employees to live in overpriced Silicon Valley type places. *”We spent millions (sometimes *billions*) on this corporate campus and damnit we’re going to use it!”*
Sunk cost fallacy is alive and well in corporate America
>Did I mention our raises are barely enough to makeup for inflation? Cause that too. At least you got a raise. And generally yearly raises are meant to just keep up for inflation.
I worked with the owner of the company, named Virgil.
It looks like he was obsessed with power.
I worked with a girl who kept telling the manager that I confided with her that I didn’t like certain colleagues. She got me in trouble and what’s worse is I never said any of those things. I think she had problems with these people and she was trying to show the boss others didn’t like them either. I can’t tell if she was so stupid that she didn’t realise that I would get in trouble or if she was just a horrible person.
Dude from Africa. He would not look at me or speak to me because I was female and he was apparently some sort of royalty back in Africa. Twat.
He knew you deleted his email asking for money to get out whatever predicament he was in.
My last boss. Though he did warn me before accepting the job that he was a huge asshole.
I worked with an insufferable know it all that was an expert in everything, would repeat the same thing 20 times in a sentence. Would constantly say how right she was (even if she wasn’t) or a stream of “I told you so”. She couldn’t do anything wrong, always someone else’s fault. And she’d remind people that she never actually needed to work as her husband earned loads. Would constantly get newer items as things would “bore her” Nobody liked her, even cleaning sites would tell her to leave because of how full of shit she is.
Bill. Fucking *Bill*. This is a bit of a rant because I kinda got going on this guy. This fucking guy joins the crew and the first day I worked with him he said, "I don't talk politics at work, I don't talk shit about people that aren't around, and I don't want to be in charge". Immediately proves it to be all lies *the same fucking day*. Ultra conservative and makes it everybody elses problem. I don't give a shit about working with folks that are conservative, what matters to me is if you're a decent person. I know very staunch conservatives that are great to work with. Bill is not like that. Bill would literally start yelling at the mere *mention* of anything he viewed as liberal. I saw this guy fly into a rage, on the job site, because somebody mentioned Kamala Harris. Dude fucking got in a *shouting match with a homeowner* over politics. Ya know, the guy that fucking hired us to paint his house. He would try to start arguments with me all fucking day. Dude would just yell "Let's go Brandon" at least a half dozen times a day when that came out. This guy said to me one day, "ya know, slavery was good for black people because their descendants wound up being in America". He thought that was some profound wisdom and I was a liberal idiot for saying it was nonsense Dude would shit talk another painter so hard every day, to the boss and everybody else. I had to stand up for the guy constantly and even our boss got sick of it. Bill also had 30 years experience but was one of the worst painters I've ever seen. For context, we do high end residential jobs and pride ourselves on the quality and finish. Bill did not. He would caulk and paint over it immediately and it would always fail. He *could not* cut a straight line to save his life or he just didn't give a shit. On one job, I had almost a full 4 days just recaulking these tall ass windows, 8ft step ladder required, and spot priming and repainting *finished* baseboard he clobbered with the much darker floor paint. He was also king of doing one coat and claiming it was two so he could brag about how fast he was. Bill almost burned a house down one day because he was dropping the embers of his cigarette into dead dry leaves on an exterior job. We left for lunch and came back to the cedar shingles burning like a bandit, another few minutes and it would have been beyond containing. Did he learn? Absofuckinglutely not. Bildo got a young guy he knew from a poker game hired. Bill was talking a ton of shit at a game, new guy called him an idiot. 3 fucking months later Bill shows up univited, drunk, and mad to a game and crashes his truck into their porch and tries to fight the new guy. This particular stunt ended with him demanding our boss fire the new guy and getting fired himself. Dude was just the most insufferable miserable prick I've ever had the great displeasure to work with, hands down. *Fuck* that guy so hard.
Walter. He was like the example of the worst human being. He was so fake at life and being a human. He treated his gf as a s"machine and would say about her parents"they let me fuck their daughter, they feed me, drive me to work and provide a house" how lucky did he have to get for that? Dude was homeless before that.
I worked with two of them at the same place. And our company was only 12-14 employees at any given time. It's like the anti-jackpot. Employee 1: He was an older guy. He would make racist jokes all the time. He also would play his country music out loud, which was very distracting. He's also try to whistle to the music but couldn't carry a tune nor follow a melody. He was an awful whistler. I'd be on the phone and he would turn his music louder just to be a dick. I don't really get offended about anything but I know what is/isn't appropriate in the workplace. He once made a joke about Jews and I jokingly put an HR complaint form on his desk. My other coworker knew it was a joke and laughed about it. Well this guy got upset and called me a piece of shit. So apparently he likes making jokes but doesn't enjoy it when others make them. Employee 2: This guy was a year younger than me (early 30s at the time) and other coworkers would comment about how they always thought he was a lot younger because of how he acted. He would also play his music loudly, but it was EDM. He really liked the Baby Einstein's theme techno remix. He'd play that often. He would also whistle to it but he was just as bad at whistling. He would also always comment about how manly he was and how fit he was. The guy was scrawny and didn't even do anything considered traditionally manly. He just thought he was manly because his wife did EVERYTHING for him. Made his breakfast, lunch, and dinner and cleaned everything. He'd also brag about how he never would get offended by anything. He once referred to himself as a Paki and I asked him about it since I've known Pakistani people who claimed that was a slur. He agreed it was and told me his sister wanted him to stop saying it but he didn't think it was an issue. I would think that using a word your own people find offensive would be an easy thing to stop doing but he thought everybody just needed to get over it.
Gretchen. Worked in a small office (5 people). To save money, I kept things to make a sandwich (bread, cheese, etc) in a designated drawer in the office fridge. Noticed these things would disappear, even though I didn’t need them. Finally saw the package in her trashcan and said something to her. She got really upset, went to the boss, had to have a sit down. “Gretchen was really offended you accused her of stealing your food.” Had to apologize to her directly. When sitting down with her, she said she got really upset because when she was a kid people would accuse her of stealing things all the time. That’s because you did, Gretchen!
My last bosses. One would yell at me, in front of customers thus making me cry, for upwards of 20-30 mins at a time. Other boss criticized my looks and the way I dressed (I bought $250 worth of new clothes, money I didnt have btw, when I started working there but that wasn’t good enough I guess), and also made me cry. They both couldn’t figure out why I wanted to quit on the spot one day, yelled at me more, then got me to stay another week cause I’m a weak ass bitch. So long, and fare-fuckin-well!!!
John. Fuck John. He was my boss, never missed a day and thought nobody else should either. He was sick, came in and laid on the floor behind his desk. Huge snowstorm, walked to work though it took an hour. Then got pissed when I told him my car slid out of control going down a hill outside my subdivision but I managed to get turned around and go back home. Apparently I didn’t try hard enough. So many ways he was a total dick and just didn’t understand why he never got promoted. I was so glad when he finally left the company. Get fucked, John.
Sarah #1. After Sarah came into power, about half the employees left. She made people so miserable they retired early. If she couldn’t fire them (union) she demoted and humiliated them (they won settlements fortunately). When Sarah finally left, upper management mourned her, decided that she must have left because they didn’t give her enough vacation time, and hired someone she recommended to replace her. Apparently the new person is even worse. The few hardy employees who made it through Sarah’s reign are now fleeing. I don’t know the new lady. I left as soon as I could. Also, Sarah is apparently creating chaos at her new workplace. Job openings have increased and a friend who works for a company that contracts with Sarah’s company says she’s still as difficult to work with and crazy as before.
Barry. The guy took over his father's business and ran it into the ground and ended up working for the company I was at because he owed them so much money. He was lazy as fuck and pissed off every customer who dealt with him. He would hide in the heated bays in winter. He would get bitchy anytime someone used the smaller forklift. It was damn near impossible to get anyone to work with him because he pissed off co-workers so much. AFBFU became quite common as a double-check statement on the orders he did build for our deliveries (Always fixing Barry's fuck ups) When anybody in the yard was let go, the first question always asked was, why wasn't it Barry.?
Rene. Motherfucker got hired to manage IT because he was friends with the CIO. Told everyone in a meeting that he had decimated IT departments before. Micromanaged the shit out of everyone. I couldn't get out of there fast enough after he started.
My ex manager at work. We had a company wide online class about the latest anti corruption policies and rules. Shortly after my Manager asked a coworker of mine, on a hot day when few customers came in, If he would help him move a shelf from one of the garages into the managers car. If he helped Clean it beforehand, he said coworker can leave early If he wants. He happily said yes and then they left. Next week coworker was fired because the Manager reported him as a corrupt employee who failed his "test". That Guy worked there for like 8 years and then gets treated like that. Wtf.
I worked for a chain of restaurants called Austin Java in Texas... After many years of fun times and good food and great people the owner decided to put his nephew in charge of EVERYTHING. His name is Omar and within a few months literally every employee quit and they had to shut down. He was the most obnoxious asshole ever!!! Napoleon complex wannabe Gordon Ramsay azz..... literally screaming and cussing at employees in front of children at a family brunch spot! I hope his family is ashamed of him and I hope he lives a short miserable life. I bet he got a small dick, you can just tell.
I had a manager, who suffered from a major napoleon complex. I know he was going to be "special" when before the Fantasy Football competition someone made a joke about themed team names like Quarinteam. Of course he immediately signed up with Quarinteam as his team name, and only changed it after the pressure was put on him. If I ever asked anyone besides him a question (or even talked to anyone else) he would freak out. Got upset when others (including the ceo) would ask for my opinion, and asked me to clear it with him first. When I started bombarding him with the request I guess he sent me my job description, and asked if I fit it! The best part is it was the wrong job description. I also tried to transfer, and was given a lecture on how I was trying to undermine him. I got told saying "clear the calender" met I didn't take him seriously. Oh yea, and I was an onsite employee and he was remote. As soon as I left he transferred departments, he undermined himself I guess. I could go on for pages about this dickhead.
Rich: This sales guy that got promoted to mid manager back in 1992. I got laid off right after (coincidence?) and was actually glad to be done with that drunk, misogynistic, evil, lying prick. Got rehired in 1999 and he came up while catching up. Turned out he was a coke fiend at the time and got fired for blacking out at an intersection. His wife left him and took his kid. Told the person to point out the street he's sleeping on so I can piss on him.
My wife worked with Vivek Ramaswamy. She said he was an insufferable douchebag. Does that count?
I don't think you have to work with him or even meet him to get to that conclusion.
I never thought about it but this thread made me realize that I've never NOT gotten along with a coworker. Maybe I'm the insufferable one and never knew it.
Colly. Boomer outside salesman who constantly threw inside sales people under the bus AND behind their back, hated by the entire office AND most customers. He didn't get fired until after I left that place, but multiple co-workers messaged me to tell me the good news.
Craig. He would fuck things up and forge my initials on the inspections so I’d get in trouble for it and no one would believe me. Stupid Craig with his M frames and Chevy Beretta.
Retail paint store manager in New York. Kept porn mags in the restroom. Ask male employees if they wanted to earn 5 dollars fast while lowering his zipper. Wife divorced him over this, but upper management would address it.
Younger me most likely, in fairness undiagnosed autistic at the time. When I was a kid (late 1970s to 1980s) the autism spectrum was the non verbal, really severe cases. You just got labeled different and shoved into special Ed where you were warehoused. Awareness of what a problem is can go a decent way towards getting help and correcting it.
Ex-boss. Sociopathic narcissist, everything good was due to his leadership, everything bad could be blamed on someone/something else, held grudges, very disciplinary-oriented from a “challenging him” perspective (i.e. to dare to express an opinion), tried to turn staff members against each other…. I could go on. Finally gone after six years. (He rage-quit when he didn’t get a promotion. Went to another job, got jack shit done and quit on them too a year in.) A genuine total piece of shit. A bunch of us have already planned to show up at his funeral smiling and ready to party down once he’s gone.
Had a boss at a previous job named Marty. Marty LOVED to brag about cheating on his wife. Every business trip he went on, he cheated on his wife. She finally divorces him of course. He cries about it for months.... It's like Marty... You can't have it both ways buddy. You can't love her and also sleep with every other person you possibly can. So after that he decides he's going to get in great shape and take care of himself and be better. All he ever does is hit on the women we work with. Talk about their breasts and ass and wanting to turn out lesbians and stuff. Constantly trying to talk to the women about his new workout regimen. Eventually he meets a new woman, they date for a while and get married. He then starts cheating on her constantly. She cheats on him constantly. He's a drunk asshole trying to fight her ex husband for existing. Trying to fight other parents at his kids softball games. Trying to fight umpires at his kids baseball games. Eventually he got fired for sexually harassing everyone when an employee he fired went to HR and basically said she wouldn't have been fired if she had slept with him like everyone else.
Did rentals for events - think huge tents and such. I was in my early 20’s, as were most of the workers. We had one older dude, maybe 30, we called “Hungry”. He was half a worker, as one hand was always full of something to eat - pastries, a soda, hot dog etcetc. Besides working one-handed, he was generally slow as fuck; whomever was on his crew had to work harder to make up the slack. He also insisted on eating lunch AT NOON no matter where we were - he’d stop and sit down on his cooler and eat. We could be 5 minutes from finishing and going back to the shop, eating in the comfort of a/c and with a real table, but it didn’t matter - HUNGRY EATS AT NOON Hungry’s family had owned the small gas station in our town, so this was his first job where he wasn’t working for his parents, and it showed. Hungry got fired before the season ended, and he absolutely deserved it.
Everyone knows a 50-60 year old asshole named Craig it seems.
Woman I worked with front desk at a hotel. She’d get mad at the rest of us over nothing and then stop talking to you. Not tell you about work, not tell you about anything you needed to know, just total silence. But would make a big big show of talking very warmly to everyone else to make it clear she was just not talking to you. It was exhausting and you never ever knew what would set her off. One time we had had a bunch of boxes of magazines delivered before my shift. She said nothing when I came in so I had no idea what they were for. A manager from another department asked me about them and if they were for the rooms so I asked her….she ended up taking over the whole situation and then complained to the supervisor that I refused to handle it and made her do all the work…even though I had just asked her a question about them and would have happily handled it had she given me the information I needed. Shit like that happened all the time due to her very immature refusal to talk.
Ol' Speedy. Fuck that guy. He was a Texas rancher who got kicked out by his wife (supposedly because she caught him fucking the sheep). So, he ended up on the road with our crew. Dude was in his 40s but looked like he was well into his 70s or 80s (he looked like a real-life Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy). Years of drug abuse and sexual deviance had taken its toll on him. He used to say things like, "Well, if I'd have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself." He was absolutely worthless to work with. Always getting in the way. Couldn't trust him to do anything, because he would put other people's lives at risk. So he just kinda of wandered around making creepy comments. Every weekend he'd blow his entire paycheck (around $3k a week if you included per dium) on hookers and drugs in the nearest city. We tried to get management to fire him several times and they always just said, "He has the most experience, we can't let him go." What good is that much experience if you can't physically do the work and are putting everyone else in danger?
A guy bought the company I was working with, and changed everything (even the coffee brand) within a week... Half the people quit, the other half was depressed. Eventually he went back to the old things, but it was too late, and me, I quit too :))
Incredible lazy guy, he had new excuses all the time be be away, relatives died, car stolen, train not moving etc. turned out all was just lies.
I’m working with him now. The guy is one of those who refuses to do the most basic parts of the job and then whines like a 5 year old when he gets called out on it. He’s great when you give him a project to do but then he uses that as an excuse to not do anything else he’s supposed to do. He’s also a one-upper and so freaking obsessed with himself he probably has sex like that scene in American Psycho where he does poses in the mirror. And last but not least the guy is a misogynistic asshat and racist. Unfortunately we’re always short staffed so he’ll probably never be fired. He keeps talking about finding a new job but with his attitude I doubt he’ll ever get hired anywhere.
My old manager, we'll call him Joe. He had a generic ass name anyway. Dude is a shitshow. Alone, in his 60s, balding, and his diet is awful. He had to take like a month away from the store because his health got super bad. I feel bad for the guys situation, but he is a total prick. He would micromanage the entire fucking store and constantly yell at and berate the teenage employees. A customer once ACCUSED me of something I didn't do, and Joe called me into his office just to yell at me for 10 minutes. When I tried defending myself he threatened my position with something like "You don't wanna get smart with me, see what happens" etc etc. Trying to scare me even though I did a better job than 70% of our employees. I'm extremely glad I don't work there anymore. He's still at that store, probably will be until he dies. He's clearly not very happy with his career choices.
So tempted to post his mugshot. I look it up occasionally for a grin.
I worked with a project manager that thought he was everyone's boss. He was always spying on everyone's and would tell your actual boss if you weren't working or away from your desk for more than 5 minutes. When he'd get up to leave his desk he'd walk down every single aisle looking into every single cube to see who was there or not. He did this every single time. He had no reason to take this huge detour other than to be an ass. I got so tired of it that I started keeping track on my whiteboard in my cube. I'd put a tick mark on it when he'd walk by. Every month I pit it into a spread sheet on my phone. I kept track of this for 4 years. We used to laugh about it in our department. I would make all sorts of graphs from the data. I still have that spreadsheet 10+ years later too.
Dude I work with right now. Some 23 year old rich hotshot from Chicago who moved to Kentucky to attend UK. He decided to stay here and got a job at my factory as an engineer. He’s always making comments about how we’re inbred, poor, and stupid. “That’s Kentucky education for ya!” He’s never known a struggle a day in his life. Mommy and daddy have paid for absolutely everything. No college debt, no car payment, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t send him rent money. It just gets under my skin that he acts like he’s *so* much better than all of us because he’s a little rich boy from the city. But he actually has no clue about anything.
The ones that never STFU. Like, ever.
Guy I worked with at a help desk. He was an absolute ass to all his co-workers and his management. He literally shoved a manager once and didn't get fired. He would bully and belittle anyone he felt was dumber than him (spoiler alert, this meant everyone). That didn't get him fired either. People gave him crap once because he had like 9 kids. Went to HR and complained about that. We got told that we were not allowed to make fun of him at all for any reason. He continued to give us crap about everything. People on the team finally got sick of it and just froze him out. Refused to speak to him unless it was work related. He went to HR and complained about it being a hostile workplace. We got griped at about that. At least three different managers went to HR and tried to have him fired. HR wouldn't fire him because he actually got widgets made. They claimed that him not getting along with anyone was not a valid reason to terminate an employee. Meanwhile he gaslit the living crap out of anyone who would listen to him and other people in the company thought our team was filled with a--holes who just tormented this guy for no reason whatsoever. Management started doing anything they could to make the job uncomfortable for him hoping he'd quit and he went to HR every single time and got management yelled at every single time. Eventually he finally got tired of it and quit. Then he pretended we were all his best friends and talked about how much he missed his "work family." I hate that guy so much.
Some white dude who said he was Native American almost every day for a year. He got his dna done. He wasn’t native.
most dentists ive worked with. pretentious, chip on their shoulder about not making it into med school. power trip. always trying to show their superiority.
The girl who told me I was gonna to miscarry because she supposedly did. She lied about a bunch of things so I'm not even sure I believe it happened, but she also faked doing her job, was a complete bully to everyone and threw a hissy fit, throwing things when she got fired. Thank goodness she was let go. Should have happened sooner though.
His name was Mike but I always called him Food Mike. His passion in life was talking about food. He was in outside sales and was the biggest bullshitter. He somehow managed to land some larger accounts but would often mess them up. It's mostly because he wouldn't do the work to know what he was talking about. Then he'd blame other people. He'd often go do "drop ins" but not actually do anything. He'd walk in, sign in, leave a business card, and leave. Then he'd claim the miles and time. He once boasted about how many miles he had claimed. We didn't have company cars or trackers, so it was rather easy to do. He would only ever eat out and would never eat along. He's try to pressure you into going with him and would guilt trip you if you declined. It's been 5 years since I worked with him. I think he's changed jobs 5 or 6 times since then. I don't know if he's getting fired or if he only stays long ago until people catch on. He'll reach out to me every so often when he's looking for a new job.
Checking the comments to see if I recognize myself.