Mine came up since I saw him this past weekend at the local supermarket Safeway... to put it short, after about 1 1/2 years of serious harassment towards me (2 years ago) , I found a way out and found a different job under the same company (Though it was hard to get a new one since they ask for your last two employer reviews...). Anyway, last week at the grocerie store, he acted like he was my long lost best friend... like nothing happened. I have always sworn that I would NEVER be like his (lack of) management "expertise".
Anyone else have BAAAD supervisors???!
...and I'm talking about bad.
What were your WORST Supervisors?
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yes but I still work for the same company
OH wait!!!!!
When I was in Seafood we were warned we had Visitors
from faraway places.. and we knew the time they would be on the floor.
OK so just as the time approaches (after break)
a motor on the line shorts and catches fire, now I got a little fire
but the motor is under a Hydraulic line or two so this could get ugly
I send everyone to the break room and put out the fire and clear off the product on the belt (smoke) and I have the Maintence crew fixing the problem. You guessed it here we go I look up and we have company on the floor..The foreman pulls me aside and yells HEY are you stupid???
what is going on?? why is everyone on break????
Uh look there is water on the floor,smoke still in the air and
BURNED shrimp being cleaned off the belt
I had a fire and everything is OK now..
the visitors saw all and told him I was great in my emergency
procedures.
OH wait!!!!!
When I was in Seafood we were warned we had Visitors
from faraway places.. and we knew the time they would be on the floor.
OK so just as the time approaches (after break)
a motor on the line shorts and catches fire, now I got a little fire
but the motor is under a Hydraulic line or two so this could get ugly
I send everyone to the break room and put out the fire and clear off the product on the belt (smoke) and I have the Maintence crew fixing the problem. You guessed it here we go I look up and we have company on the floor..The foreman pulls me aside and yells HEY are you stupid???
what is going on?? why is everyone on break????
Uh look there is water on the floor,smoke still in the air and
BURNED shrimp being cleaned off the belt
I had a fire and everything is OK now..
the visitors saw all and told him I was great in my emergency
procedures.
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Worked for the original Frontier Airlines Credit Union in the mid 80's. Manager of the place was a real a**hole. Smoked cigars, and they stunk. He had a habit of running down the stairs from the 2nd floor screaming at one of the tellers, "Who pulled their bait money??" It was an easy thing to do at the time, and we would have all been up shitcreek if we were REALLY being robbed. 
It was an easy thing to do at the time, and we would have all been up shitcreek if we were REALLY being robbed. 
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Found her passed out drunk with her head on her desk and couldn't wake her up...she'd been drinking on the job for some time...
when they finally terminated her...I got her job...but I wasn't the one who turned her in either...
It's kinda tricky to terminate someone with an alcohol problem..you gotta offer rehab..and follow strict guidelines or the Dept. of Labor will nail you ass...
when they finally terminated her...I got her job...but I wasn't the one who turned her in either...
It's kinda tricky to terminate someone with an alcohol problem..you gotta offer rehab..and follow strict guidelines or the Dept. of Labor will nail you ass...
When it goes from full to crescent...I move in and out of tune...Everlasting Moon....
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OK, not mine but my husbands.
He taught Construction Technology for a Community College at an outreach program in a prison; until today.
His supervisor has been horrible to him for a while now. I think she's a man-hater with a big chip on her shoulder. Always riding him for one stupid thing or another.
So he gets this SWEET job offer from a company that he used to frame houses for and he accepts and went to the prison job today for his exit interview. He asked about his 40 hours of comp time that he has built up and Miss Thang tells him that he will lose it. He basically tells her that is illegal and they need to go talk with HER supervisor about it. She refuses so he leaves the prison, drives to the college campus and talks to the president of the college. Then he returns to the prison to get his personal items and she has revoked his keys, passes and everything else and has him escorted out of the facillity- without his stuff!!!!!
I may be mistaken but I do believe that he may be the first man in history to be thrown OUT of prison!!!!
How's that for a supervisor?
He taught Construction Technology for a Community College at an outreach program in a prison; until today.
His supervisor has been horrible to him for a while now. I think she's a man-hater with a big chip on her shoulder. Always riding him for one stupid thing or another.
So he gets this SWEET job offer from a company that he used to frame houses for and he accepts and went to the prison job today for his exit interview. He asked about his 40 hours of comp time that he has built up and Miss Thang tells him that he will lose it. He basically tells her that is illegal and they need to go talk with HER supervisor about it. She refuses so he leaves the prison, drives to the college campus and talks to the president of the college. Then he returns to the prison to get his personal items and she has revoked his keys, passes and everything else and has him escorted out of the facillity- without his stuff!!!!!
I may be mistaken but I do believe that he may be the first man in history to be thrown OUT of prison!!!!
How's that for a supervisor?
I do it for the stories I can tell!!!
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I had a babbling idiot for a boss, and he was afraid I was going to take his job (I was)....so he loaded my file up with phony write-ups for things I never did. When he left, I didn't get promoted. I didn't find out until 2 years later that I was considered "unpromotable" because of some of the things I had (never) done.
Sad thing was....he was the only Parrothead boss I ever had before this current job!
Sad thing was....he was the only Parrothead boss I ever had before this current job!
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`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
Here is what one of my former bosses did to me:
After working for the same place for 11 years, with outstanding performance reviews, he walked into my office at 3:30 the day before Thanksgiving (I had sent most of our staff home early so it was him, me and the office manager). He closed the door, sat down and put a sealed envelope on my desk. When I started to open it, he told me to wait a little while, got up and left the office to go home. I closed my door again and opened the envelope---it contained my latest performance review which basically called me totally incompetent and called for a 7:30am meeting with me the following Monday morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, huh?
After working for the same place for 11 years, with outstanding performance reviews, he walked into my office at 3:30 the day before Thanksgiving (I had sent most of our staff home early so it was him, me and the office manager). He closed the door, sat down and put a sealed envelope on my desk. When I started to open it, he told me to wait a little while, got up and left the office to go home. I closed my door again and opened the envelope---it contained my latest performance review which basically called me totally incompetent and called for a 7:30am meeting with me the following Monday morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, huh?
"I finally know what Michael Jordan was talking about when he said he was 'in the zone'"
Jimmy Buffett, 9/4/05, Wrigley Field
Jimmy Buffett, 9/4/05, Wrigley Field
What a Jerk I hope his mom come from under the porch and bit himejr wrote:Here is what one of my former bosses did to me:
After working for the same place for 11 years, with outstanding performance reviews, he walked into my office at 3:30 the day before Thanksgiving (I had sent most of our staff home early so it was him, me and the office manager). He closed the door, sat down and put a sealed envelope on my desk. When I started to open it, he told me to wait a little while, got up and left the office to go home. I closed my door again and opened the envelope---it contained my latest performance review which basically called me totally incompetent and called for a 7:30am meeting with me the following Monday morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, huh?
What an ASS! I wonder what turns these "people" into who they become... I would rather be making $50,000 vs. $100,000 b4 I turn into that. I know mid-level managers are under pressure b/c of the top level managers (who, of course, are completely out of touch with what's really going on) but come on! It affects your health, your social life and especially a person's home life and family.ejr wrote:Here is what one of my former bosses did to me:
After working for the same place for 11 years, with outstanding performance reviews, he walked into my office at 3:30 the day before Thanksgiving (I had sent most of our staff home early so it was him, me and the office manager). He closed the door, sat down and put a sealed envelope on my desk. When I started to open it, he told me to wait a little while, got up and left the office to go home. I closed my door again and opened the envelope---it contained my latest performance review which basically called me totally incompetent and called for a 7:30am meeting with me the following Monday morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, huh?
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I had one of the worst bosses ever when I first moved to DC. She was known to berate employees, punch walls and scream obscenities around the office at the drop of a hat (the best time was when she screamed out a string of F-bombs right outside the conference room where a meeting with the CEO and EVP of one of our biggest clients was going on).
The best, though, was the time when one of the mid-level supervisors decided to quit because he was tired of dealing with her s**t every day. Long story short, we were already short-staffed at the time and he had four kids at home, so he ended up agreeing to stay on in a lower position. But she was so p***ed off, she had his e-mail account cut off. So, even though he was still an employee, he ended up having to set up a Yahoo e-mail account just so we could send him e-mail he needed to do the job!!
"Corrosive" is about the best word I can use to describe the work environment there. Put it this way--this was not a fast food place or anything like that. It was a 50-55 person office of professionals. All but one or two had college degrees and plenty of experience. In the last full calendar year, company-wide (so including the CEO, VPs, etc.) we had 72 percent turnover!!! When I finally left for a new job, about two weeks in, my wife said, "You know, I've seen you smile more in the last two weeks than I have in the whole previous year."
The only good part of that job was the friends I made. All of us who went through that are now really close. Friendships forged in the fires of hell.
The best, though, was the time when one of the mid-level supervisors decided to quit because he was tired of dealing with her s**t every day. Long story short, we were already short-staffed at the time and he had four kids at home, so he ended up agreeing to stay on in a lower position. But she was so p***ed off, she had his e-mail account cut off. So, even though he was still an employee, he ended up having to set up a Yahoo e-mail account just so we could send him e-mail he needed to do the job!!
"Corrosive" is about the best word I can use to describe the work environment there. Put it this way--this was not a fast food place or anything like that. It was a 50-55 person office of professionals. All but one or two had college degrees and plenty of experience. In the last full calendar year, company-wide (so including the CEO, VPs, etc.) we had 72 percent turnover!!! When I finally left for a new job, about two weeks in, my wife said, "You know, I've seen you smile more in the last two weeks than I have in the whole previous year."
The only good part of that job was the friends I made. All of us who went through that are now really close. Friendships forged in the fires of hell.
The position I held prior to my current position required me to work nights. There were only 10 of us in the entire building. We all got along, and pretty much had a good time. However, that all came to a head with a single hire. The first night that the biatch started she sent no fewer than 26 emails to our manager. "Troy spent 15 minutes talking about sports with Bruce", "Mindy took and hour and 15 minute lunch break", "I caught Jay surfing the internet"
At that time she was not our supervisor. But....6 months later she was. When she started supervising us she would try and pit us against one another. She would come up and say things like "Troy, Dan is really bothered by the fact that you play pranks on him" And then she would go to Dan and say "It really bothers Troy that you play pranks on him"
Our last day our entire team sent her flowers with a card that read "Good luck in your next endeavor. Let us know if you would like your knives returned that are stuck in our backs"
At that time she was not our supervisor. But....6 months later she was. When she started supervising us she would try and pit us against one another. She would come up and say things like "Troy, Dan is really bothered by the fact that you play pranks on him" And then she would go to Dan and say "It really bothers Troy that you play pranks on him"
Our last day our entire team sent her flowers with a card that read "Good luck in your next endeavor. Let us know if you would like your knives returned that are stuck in our backs"
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Not because this guy fired me but Mitchell Clark at Sherwin Williams Division in Morrow, Ga wins that award.
How can you evaluate a person's performance when you only speak to them twice a week. We only had TWO sit down conversations while I was there.
This was YEARS ago but I still remember him
Second place goes to Chris Jenkins that use to work at John H. Harland Co because he was more interested in kissing the ass of the IT Director Max Borner than he was doing his job!
How can you evaluate a person's performance when you only speak to them twice a week. We only had TWO sit down conversations while I was there.
This was YEARS ago but I still remember him
Second place goes to Chris Jenkins that use to work at John H. Harland Co because he was more interested in kissing the ass of the IT Director Max Borner than he was doing his job!
When they run you out of town make it look like you are leading the parade.
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You know...I was going to talk about the Crackhead boss I had when I worked in hospitality..
He was the owner's brother...and the only boy in a family of 5 kids..and the baby...
and the GM of the hotel..
From the first weekend in May, until I finally left, at the end of August, he was never in the hotel except to get the night auditor to take money out the safe and give to him....or to bum a lighter from same auditor...
He stole money daily...Blamed others for his failures..(and since I was the Guest Services Manager and Front Desk Manager, I caught a lot of it...)
Once I said something about his addiction to the Sales Director..and she SCREAMED at me "You don't F##K with Baby Jesus!!"
Anyway...Mr I don't do drugs ..dropped dead this past Summer of a heart attack at the age of 39. It made me think about a lot of things...but mostly how his sister helped kill him...by totally denying that he had any kind of problem........
He was the owner's brother...and the only boy in a family of 5 kids..and the baby...
and the GM of the hotel..
From the first weekend in May, until I finally left, at the end of August, he was never in the hotel except to get the night auditor to take money out the safe and give to him....or to bum a lighter from same auditor...
He stole money daily...Blamed others for his failures..(and since I was the Guest Services Manager and Front Desk Manager, I caught a lot of it...)
Once I said something about his addiction to the Sales Director..and she SCREAMED at me "You don't F##K with Baby Jesus!!"
Anyway...Mr I don't do drugs ..dropped dead this past Summer of a heart attack at the age of 39. It made me think about a lot of things...but mostly how his sister helped kill him...by totally denying that he had any kind of problem........
"I know it's a shabby old building but after all ain't we God's children
And Lord it's a good place for hangin' out .."
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I think so. I only slept with one supervisor after that, but she wasn't married.ragtopW wrote:Ilph wrote:It's been 7 years, the statue of limitations has to be up on that....iuparrothead wrote:WTF!?!?Ilph wrote:I was having sex with one of my supervisors when I was 18. She's wasn't too bad, but her husband wasn't very nice to me....
I hope the Statue of stupid is up too..