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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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IHO Horrible Bosses movie, tell us your horrible boss/coworker story
What's your worst boss/coworker story? Besides someone stealing my lunch, I've had it pretty easy.
Re: IHO Horrible Bosses movie, tell us your horrible boss/coworker story
Mine isn't really a horror story, just a miserable one.
I work in a small, luxury-brand food store. When my good manager resigned last Xmas, 2 sales associates were promoted to co-managers. They got the promotion due to nepotism. Someone in corporate is good friends with the families of these girls. The jobs were handed to them on a silver platter when they had no managerial experience and were only 22 years old.
These girls are now buddies and their laziness is appalling. They brazenly text, tweet and surf the internet on company time. They also hide in the back of the store and leave me alone for hours to service customers. When I call them out to help me when the store is busy they go straight back to the stock room to hide when business dies down. Maybe once a week they come out willingly to check the register, restock or just see how I'm doing.
I got sick and tired of one of these girls's unprofessionalism so I blew the whistle on her to the next manager up the chain of command. A couple days later this girl got furious with me for being a whistleblower. I told her it wasn't my job to tell her how to do her job, so going to her boss the the appropriate thing to do. Since then she and the other manager don't speak to me. It's so petty and highschoolish. But then these girls don't have a clue that they're supposed to set a standard of behavior on the job. Their behavior as managers hasn't improved even though they know I'm watching them.
It's demoralizing working in this kind of environment. I'm only staying because of the paycheck.
My direct supervisor makes me batty. First of all, she apparently was given this position due to the good ol' boy system (we're government) and was on her way to be booted from her last.. Now I know why. She is considerd a "manager" ..doesn't have a ton of experience...but more than me and the other nurse she supervises. Both of us have double the education she has.
Thats just be me being bitter. She micromanages, watches from the parking lot when you arrive, goes through my work with a fine tooth comb, picks on the tiniest , stupidest thing EVER. If you ask her a question that she doesn't know the answer ---she'll stumble, beat around the bush and make up an answer sounding like she's an expert. 2 minutes later she'll be on the phone in her office trying to find out the RIGHT answer. She never once admits her mistakes, big or small.
Besides being an imcompetant "manager" she's completely incompetant as a nurse. Like scary incompetant. Mislabeling patients tubes of blood, not knowing what cerebral spinal fluid is, etc. seriously bad news.
Whoa! nurse issue - is there anything you can do about that? That *** is dangerous - mislabeling blood samples and such. can't you get her out of there?
I"m stuck here - my boss does the whole "I'm the boss and the owner so I get to do what I want when I want" and he has no one to knock him off his pedestal. You have bigger concerns on your hands though
One of my very senior bosses (who is married) said that monogamy for men is overrated and that sex is a recreation for him, his wife shouldn't care if he cheated. But he's afraid of her reaction, so he doesn't.
We talked about this for two hours while waiting for a flight.
74 books read in 2011
I had a coworker who was so lazy he literally did about 8 hours of work a MONTH (this went on for at least 8 months). The guy was constantly talking on his cell, making personal calls (when he actually showed up for work). He got involved in a pyramid scheme and tried pitching it to everyone at work. Needless to say, when layoffs came around, he was one of the first people let go.
I also had a terrible experience with my former boss. His boss quit, and he suddenly had a lot more responsibility. He couldn't handle the pressure and was a mess for months--completely disorganized, constantly changing priorities/focus, etc. which made it hard for his subordinates to know what the heck we should be prioritizing. (He also used to get into these bad moods and go around yelling/ranting at everyone--so degrading!) When review time came he freaked out & gave everyone a horrible review including me (I had worked there over 5 years and never had anything worse than a glowing review). In fact that year (for which he was reviewing me) I was TWICE awarded our company's second highest award for my good work--and he even was one of the people who awarded one of them to me. :-/ What a mess. He got laid off a year later.