Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 23, 2012, 11:44 am
“Not all psychopaths are in prison — some are in the boardroom.” At least that’s what Canadian psychologist and co-author of the book “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work”, Dr. Robert Hare thinks.  And admit it, so do you. In fact, if you’ve had a really, really bad boss, yo...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 5, 2012, 9:47 pm
What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week… The worst bosses of 2011? Our friends at eBosswatch list 100 of the worst bosses of 2011 and include the sexual harassment hijinks of Mike Cordova of Applebees, Mr. 999 himself, Herman Cain, and former Penn State Assistant Coach and man-who-...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 29, 2011, 8:14 am
I’ve had to share a hotel room with a colleague before. Besides the fact that she snored like an ox, the idea of sharing personal spaces as intimate as bedrooms and bathrooms with a work colleague is just …disturbing.  But, the budget was tight and I got along pretty well with my colleague.  B...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 7, 2011, 1:25 pm
Lauren had one date with investment banker Mike. He had a good time. She, not so much. She never called him back. What follows is (allegedly) his letter to her expressing his disappointment… ——— Message From: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:19:39 -0500 Subject: Hi Lauren Hi Lauren, I’m disapp...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 5, 2011, 11:51 am
A teacher is awaiting word on whether he’ll be fired for asking a student why he hadn’t done his homework. Except he asked it like this… Source: Happyplace
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 21, 2011, 3:48 pm
There’s at least one retailer refusing to give in to the pressure to open on Thanksgiving Day. Cost Plus World Market just posted this on their Facebook page…               Thanks for giving your employees a break Cost Plus – A nice alternative to the current landscape of profit...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 21, 2011, 10:55 am
More sad, hilarious, frustrating and true reader submitted bad boss stories… I worked for a Jazz Club in Cocoa Beach, Florida.  My boss was a 70 year old Astria woman who looked like yoda.  She wore the same clothes into work each night yet yelled about having a military press in each employee�...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Oct 17, 2011, 1:42 pm
In honor of Bosses Day… If this is real, it’s epic.  Joey hired a marching band to help him quit. A couple of people commented that Joey was an ass to quit a job (even a bad job) in this economy. Once the band started, I for one, couldn’t stop smiling. And I love how the band drowns out his ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Sep 13, 2011, 11:09 am
Despite working 22 days straight, Adam wouldn’t give his employee a day off. So…               The smiley face is a nice touch.  Source: HappyPlace
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Sep 1, 2011, 9:43 am
So, you’ve already been working your employees overtime and you’d like them to come in on the weekend but know that asking them to, after they’ve just worked a 70 hour week, would be outrageous. This is an actual email forwarded by a reader whose boss displays a more passive aggressive method ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Aug 8, 2011, 2:03 pm
Bad Barista. The contest, sponsored by Working America, asked workers to submit their bad boss stories for a chance to win the use of a vacation condo for a week and $1,000. After reading Bad Barista’s story, we think she deserved the grand prize win (selected by website votes.) The California c...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Aug 1, 2011, 9:58 am
While many highly competent job seekers, out of work through no fault of their own, hit the pavement each day looking for jobs that will pay them even a fraction of what they used to earn, the individuals below made colossal errors in judgment and mismanaged companies into the red, yet they bounced ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jul 25, 2011, 12:13 am
After its Fourth of July barbecue an Indiana manager of a Dillard’s department store instructed employees to store the unused hot dogs in the company freezer and save them for the Labor Day bash. Nolan Koewler either didn’t hear the instructions or really wanted some hot dogs because he ate two...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jul 12, 2011, 9:45 am
While turmoil brews over what’s being called the nations largest cheating scandal, former Atlanta Public School (APS) Superintendent is on vacation. In Hawaii. (Image: Hall in Hawaii being asked for an interview by local Atlanta Anchorwoman Monica Pearson) The investigation into Atlanta Public Sc...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 28, 2011, 9:13 am
Rod Blagojevich (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File) What happened is that something finally, triumphantly, penetrated that Teflon hair and attitude of yours Blago. After deliberating for 9 days, a jury found the former Illinois Governor guilty on 17 corruption-related charges. The charges include trying ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 26, 2011, 10:34 am
Remember infamous sex-ter and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick? Kilpatrick is a favorite here at RBB because he makes it so easy. Here’s a little rundown of the reason Kilpatrick is in the RBB Hall of Fame: Embarrassing text  messages between Kwame Kilpatric and former mayoral chief of sta...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 20, 2011, 3:15 pm
If the average length of stay for a chief of staff in the U.S. House is close to 7 years and you’ve gone through 11 in 11 years, it might be that you’re the meanest member of the House. That’s what folks have been saying about Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) for years. She regularly appears...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 17, 2011, 10:20 am
In the wake of mounting calls for his resignation and after first denying he sent dirty pictures, then admitting he sent them, and then us finding out he actually sent quite a few, Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress yesterday. It took four minutes, and thankfully, his pregnant wife was not standi...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 6, 2011, 5:37 pm
Soooo… After repeatedly denying that this was him, New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed today that that was him ( a part of him anyway), and so is this.  And he’s ashamed. And he’s not quitting. Weiner admitted hat he had, contrary to previous ranting denials, tweeted a picture...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jun 1, 2011, 10:26 pm
Hollywood is banking on the fact that zillions of Americans hate their bad bosses enough to fork over the $10+ price of admission to see Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day plot the ultimate demise of their respective bosses played by Kevin Spacey – a white color schmuck -, Jennifer Anis...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - May 18, 2011, 12:13 am
your employees must sign pledges promising not to commit suicide. After a rash of suicides last summer, Taiwanese company Foxconn, component producer for Apple products, added the clause requiring employees to forego suicide as an option. An option to what? Well while Foxconn execs claim ignorance ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - May 16, 2011, 7:50 pm
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, dubbed “the great seducer” for his reputation with women, was taken into custody over the weekend and in court today, charged with attempted rape and criminal sexual contact. The charges stem from Strauss-Kahn’s alleged attac...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Apr 26, 2011, 8:43 pm
In an ironic twist to the straight-politician-covering-up-the-fact-that-he’s-gay trend, San Francisco fifth district councilman Ted Sand was arrested earlier this month and charged with drunk driving. Sadly, a drunk politician driving himself home no longer classifies as news. What does? When the...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Mar 29, 2011, 8:52 pm
You don’t say… Career Builder’s newest survey tells us what we’ve known all along – most bosses say they’d never gotten management training before becoming managers. The survey also spoke to 4,000 workers and in 25% of them accused their supervisor of playing favorites and a whopping 40...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Mar 14, 2011, 12:20 am
No matter how bad your boss is do not, I repeat, DO NOT poison her tea. Unfortunately my advice is too late for two North Carolina cafeteria workers who were charged with poisoning their bosses tea last month. The workers, 64 year old Eileen Hallamore and 38 year old Angela Johnson, attempted to po...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Mar 1, 2011, 12:12 am
If by good you mean bad and by person you mean flesh-eating bacteria, then yes Bernie Madoff you are a good person. Great even. Our favorite Ponzi-scheming, imprisoned badvisor says he’s actually…wait for it…”a victim.” In the interview, that spanned more than a dozen phone calls with New...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Feb 21, 2011, 6:28 pm
I’ve worked in at least two places where a colleague announces her pregnancy only to have a cold silence fall over management. They’d never be brazen enough to admit it, but some managers find pregnancy an annoyance and resent the employee for “disrupting” the workflow by getting pregnant. T...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Feb 16, 2011, 12:15 am
on Facebook anyway… sort of. Remember the employee who got fired for dissing her supervisor on Facebook? Well the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) sued American Medical Response of Connecticut, claiming that the company’s blogging and internet policy barring workers from disparaging the com...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Feb 14, 2011, 12:12 am
That would be Chris Lee. NY Congressman Chris Lee.  Chris “striking the Eddie Long pose” Lee. Here’s a side by side if you think I’ve gone too far… What is it about grown a** men who should be busy doing congressy things and running mega-churches, deciding instead to take cell phone pict...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Feb 6, 2011, 7:46 pm
In what’s being reported as the first case in Mexico in which a judge is accused of sexual harassment Mexico City Judge Alfredo Reyes Flores has allegedly been spending an awful lot of his time on the job viewing pornography, including child pornography, consuming alcohol and sexually harassing fe...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 31, 2011, 12:13 am
I already feel like this.
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 27, 2011, 12:16 am
Want to talk about your bad boss on Facebook? Twitter? Anywhere in the public domain where you name names, including your own? You might want to think twice. A case in Connecticut raises the question. The National Labor Relations Board alleges that a woman was fired by American Medical Response of ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 24, 2011, 12:30 am
Manwaring at Paul's Big M Last Friday the EEOC announced that a jury returned a $1.2 million verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the agency on behalf of female employees, many of whom were teenagers at the time of the filing, against Paul’s Big M grocery store in Oswego, N.Y. At tr...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 17, 2011, 2:25 pm
Yahoo Finance has a list of five things your boss won’t tell you. There list includes the fact that they’re probably reading your emails and that they couldn’t care less what current strain of bacteria is ravaging your child’s stomach and therefore don’t want to hear about why you’ve got...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 11, 2011, 12:29 pm
From someecards, is this the best termination letter ever? Maybe not, but the reason for termination might be the best we’ve ever read…
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 10, 2011, 10:32 am
While four inches of snow is child’s play for northerners, the southeast, unaccustomed to more than a mere dusting, is paralyzed as a result of a winter storm that crept in overnight. Despite dire news warnings about hazardous driving conditions, I wonder how many non-essential (anyone who isn’...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 6, 2011, 2:05 pm
I got an interesting email the other day from a casting company in Southern California. They’re working on a real-life version of the wildly popular “The Office.” The fictional U.S. version of The Office documents the shenanigans of bad boss with a good heart Michael Scott and his team of side...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Jan 3, 2011, 11:22 am
I recently found out that one the worst bosses I ever had (the one who asked me if I was disobeying a direct order although neither one of us was in the military – she’s also the one with the ridiculous ponytail weave) has, over the past couple of years, been promoted several times. Despite read...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 28, 2010, 9:58 am
One of my faves from August and one of the best ways to quit I’ve seen in a while – This one isn’t quite as dramatic as the flight attendant who flew the coop, or Arnetta the Moodsetta‘s on air meltdown, but if it’s real, it’s pretty clever. Jenny works, correction worked, for a jerk. A...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 20, 2010, 11:45 am
For the next couple of weeks I’ll be reposting some of my favorite bad boss stories. Here’s video proof why the assistant principle responsible for allowing this cheer at a high school game was given the boot. Back in February, Jonesboro High School Assistant Principal, Sandra Nicholson faced p...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 17, 2010, 11:09 am
What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week… Career sucking? On her 45 Things site, Anita Bruzzese gives you 4 ways to feel better when you career sucks. Toxic Bosses: When Supervisors Inflict the 7 Deadly Sins of business on Their Employees. That’s Badass shares the story of the IRS...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 13, 2010, 1:57 pm
Sexual harassment in the workplace has always been a touchy subject – no pun intended. Based on the comments I see here and on other sites, it seems as though when it comes to sexual harassment many readers feel like women should just “man-up.” Apparently they’re not alone. On Forbes.com, ...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 10, 2010, 8:57 am
What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week… Forbes covers bully bosses, providing tips for both employees and HR personnel. Check out part two here. Are some of the worst bosses in the hospitality industry? Ironic, isn’t it? When a bad boss becomes a creature feature. Get past the a...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 6, 2010, 11:54 am
This was a comment I received in response to one of last week’s posts: My boss is in his early 30′s and born with a silver spoon in his mouth .. He inherited the company I work for. He has no respect for his employees and is forever thinking he is being taken advantage of. Out of a one of his m...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Dec 1, 2010, 11:46 am
On Monday I introduced you to a reader who’s being bullied into turning a blind eye to on-the-job violations. Furthermore, the boss is telling everyone in the office that this employee reports every mistake they make, turning him into the office pariah. Today I share part two of his story, includi...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 29, 2010, 12:13 am
Over the course of my career I’ve been asked to do an array of questionable things. Most were just plain stupid, some were sexist, but none were outright illegal. So what do you do when your job description requires you to report violations but your boss wants you to cover them up? Here’s part o...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 24, 2010, 12:13 am
On Monday I introduced you to the Reprobate. Today you meet another group of incompetent, power hungry blowhards. This group of “managers” insisted on a no-snack policy and used surprise pantyhose checks and clandestine trashcan searches as their WMDs – weapons of morale destruction. One of m...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 22, 2010, 12:13 am
This week most Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional way, with turkey, football and family, reflecting on the things they’re most grateful for. Here at Reallybadboss.com we’ve got a lot to be thankful for too. Specifically we’re thankful that the jerks in the stories we’ll...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 19, 2010, 12:50 pm
What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week… Are the new TSA pat-downs more like rub-downs? Need a boss personality type manual? Check this out at The Sydney Morning Herald. Does your boss display Jekyll and Hyde tendencies? Yes? Read on. My favorite bad boss post title ever in the his...
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Denise D. posted an article on Really Bad Boss - Nov 15, 2010, 8:55 am
He also blamed her for misplacing a letter that was in his briefcase the entire time and lectured her about her “weight problem.” It’s real life, it’s really bad, and it’s another really bad boss tale submitted by a reader… Four and a half months ago I left an ugly and unproductive work...
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