35 Bad Bosses That Deserve The ‘Toxic Boss Award’

If you have worked under a bad boss, you may know how traumatic that experience can be. Not everyone is an honest worker, but some try to provide a fair service in return for a decent wage. Unfortunately, though, folks get dealt the short end of the stick and end up having to deal with entitled bosses during their work stint. 

#1 Boss Wrote “Thief” On My Check

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Filed a wage theft report against my former employer, was told he only paid 80% of what was owned, but I sucked it up. When I picked up the check at the Department of Labor, it had “THIEF” boldly written on the subject line. Super awkward, unfair, and embarrassing, especially with others witnessing it. Is there anything that can be done?

#2 My Boss Declined My Vacation (After Having 4 Months Notice) To Hawaii To Propose To My Girlfriend Because They (Needed Me Badly) In The Office… Obviously Work/Life Balance Didn’t Mean Anything To Them. Anyways… Here’s My View (She Said Yes)

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#3 Boss Needs A Bad Rule

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#4 So, This Is Something That A Potential Employer Can Do? I Don’t See How It’s Relevant To My Job As A Network Administrator

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#5 The Audacity To Ask Something Like This

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#6 Boss Wasn’t Paying Attention And Sat On My Desk While Talking To A Coworker

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UPDATE: So I approached him about it and he tried to convince me that they were already broken before he sat there, which I know is a lie. After talking for more than 20 minutes he then finally admitted to it, saying it was an accident and apologized. When I said he’d need to buy me a replacement pair he said “we can talk more about it tomorrow.” 🙄 Wish me luck I guess…

#7 Great Thank You I Will Put You Down

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#8 Eat And Get Laid Off. Snitches Get $20

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#9 Calling Homeless People “Animals”

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#10 The Manager Would Throw Away Cookies Every Saturday Instead Of Giving Them To The Employees

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We threw away 55 cookies. The managers didn’t let us take any home because they thought it might “encourage us to purposely make extra.”

#11 This Perverse Obsession With Keeping Employees At Work For The Maximum Number Of Hours Per Day Is Sick. This CEO Doesn’t So Much Need Advice As They Need Therapy

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#12 Boss Says The Office Has No Roaches

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So, here’s the deal. I found a roach a few times inside my work laptop when I got home..it couldn’t come from my house and a few other colleagues complained of the same issue. I decided to prove him wrong, bought a cheap 50c chinese sticky roach trap and left my laptop at work with this trap directly next to my laptop….this is the results after a weekend in the office. Not just roaches but the roach egg sack thingy hatched and those are the babies…

#13 Boss Telling Me To Close In -40f

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#14 Am I Overreacting At My Bosses Response?

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I feel like this is terrible management. I have never worked at a job where the priority is my time off and not my health????? Am I Overreacting?

#15 AIO? Married Ex-Boss Reached Out With An ‘Offer’ So I Told His Wife And Reported Him To The Labor Department

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I (25F) used to work briefly (remote) at a non-profit running out of NJ.
My ex-boss, who’s married and has a kid, reached out to me about a month ago (after 5+ months of me quitting) with the offer you see in his messages.
I read this, sent his wife the texts, and reported him to the labor department. Just got scheduled for an interview with the department to discuss next steps—AIO about all of this?
Additional context: He’s the founder, manages the HR himself, and was also my direct report. And no, I haven’t found a job yet after this!

#16 Got Fired From My Job Because I Couldn’t Come To A Cleaning Party On 2 Hour Notice

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#17 Boss Didn’t Like The Color Of The Chairs In The Break Room. So Now We Just Don’t Have Chairs

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#18 2 Weeks Of Telling My Boss The Produce In The Warehouse Is Going Bad – Him: Don’t Worry About It

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#19 Put In My Notice Because My Boss Asked Me If I Could Change The Day I Put My Dog To Sleep

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This was what I received from my boss after asking for help regarding having to put my dog to sleep and not being able to make my 5 AM shift because of it. I worked at Starbucks for over 2.5 years and called out/was out sick a total of three or four times.

#20 Boss Lied To Clients About My Mother Dying And Expected Me To Play Along

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Job was two weeks late in starting, but he could have just told the clients he’d forgot how swamped our shop was and apologized. Or told a white lie that one or another of the machines at the shop had broken down and it took two weeks to get someone in to fix it. But no. And this is hardly the worst thing he’s done. I don’t work for this a**hat any more.

#21 My Boss Thinks It’s A Great Idea To Randomly Pull The Turn The Fridge Off To Save The Energy

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I can’t even tell you how much this enrages me. First it was only for the weekends, now it’s just randomly. How effed up is that? Firstly, you don’t save any energy by turning the fridge on and off, secondly, it’s a really s***ty thing to do, thirdly, this way bacteria and mold can grow in there happily. But this woman is so stupid, any of these arguments will just bounce right off her head… tell me about your s***ty bosses, please.

#22 Been Struggling At Work Since January 3rd When They Laid Off The One Person There To Help Me. This Week I Was Told I’d Be Getting Something That I Would Love And Would Definitely Make Me Happy. That Something

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#23 AIO To This Text My Boss Sent Me?

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And should I send this response, if any? I have rewritten it so many times; this is what I was able to cut it down to.

#24 Former Employer Wants My Password To The Computer I Used 6 Months After Terminating Me

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For context:
This company sought me out to interview at their company for a management position. I ended up getting the job. Lasted 30 days until they terminated the position due to a “cart before the horse” situation. Basically what happened is I called out all the illegal marketing practices happening and offered solutions to fix them. They got rid of the problem, which was “me.” Now they want my password.

#25 Unprofessional Maybe?

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#26 Was Sent Home And Recorded As “Refusing To Work” Because I Told My Boss This Seatbelt Was Unsafe And Illegal. Would You Have Refused To Drive?

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My class A rig is down for service so I was thrown into the class B backup truck.

#27 Devin Should Be Versed In Feminine Hygiene As He Sounds Like A Jerk

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#28 Bosses Are Mad We Use Too Much Toilet Paper

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#29 My Supervisor’s Response To Me Asking For A Raise

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For context, I was told three months ago that in two months I would be moved to a different area in the company to begin working at a much higher pay rate. New employees started being hired at almost 40% more than what I make. After I found out I requested a raise and I’ve been waiting ever since. I have worked here for two years and have never had any performance issues. I told her recently that I am looking for other jobs and I’m not going to wait much longer and she promised me a raise in two weeks. Those couple weeks have passed and this is what I get. I hate my workplace.

#30 Got My Boss To Admit To Wage Theft

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I work for a very well-known corporation as a server/bartender. My shift usually starts at 4:00 pm.
The time clock rounds my hours to 15-minute intervals. If I clock in at 4:01, I don’t start getting paid until 4:15. If I clock in at 3:50 and start working immediately as expected, I don’t get paid for those first 10 minutes. I know if I clock out at 10:40 it doesn’t round to 10:45. It gets rounded down to 10:30. My general manager confirmed that over text. This means I lose up to 28 minutes in my wages every shift.
I know this is wage theft. They did not notify me that they changed the time clocks. When I was first employed, I was paid from when I clocked in to when I clocked out. I wasn’t aware that it was rounding down my hours for a few months. I believe that I’m owed a couple of hundreds of dollars in unpaid wages. I’m planning to send these screen shots to the labour board but I’m not very hopeful anything will happen.
TLDR: my employer is rounding down my hours so he can pay me less.

#31 Literally Can’t Believe He Said That

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#32 Wtf Is This Job Man

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#33 Corporate Life – Micromanaging

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I do my job well enough that I now have to be scrutinized for tiny things in order for my supervisors to look like they have an important role of “managing” people. I almost got fired last year because I racked up a total of 6 minutes of tardies over the course of 2 months because I came back from lunch 1-3 mins late a few times.
I hope I don’t get a write up and sent to the principal’s office!

#34 Report Or Regret

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#35 My Boss Only Replies ‘Ok Thanks’ To All Of My Texts. Even Questions

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