Jerk Bosses Who Got Shamed By Their Employees 

Here's a joke my Dad told me when I was about twelve: When the body was first being made all the parts wanted to be the boss. The eyes said, "We should be the boss because we find food and look out for danger." The hands said, "We should be the boss because we use tools and make clothing and shelter." The legs said, "We should be the boss because we carry the body everywhere it needs to go." The brain said, "I should be the boss because I think and make decisions." And, on and on it went, with all the parts bickering and arguing over who would be the boss. Finally, the asshole piped up and said, "I want to be the boss." The other body parts laughed and laughed and said, "Why should you be the boss? You're an asshole!" So the asshole stopped itself up. Soon the eyes were blurry and crossed, the hands trembled, the legs were weak, and the brain was feverish. The other body parts finally gave up and told the asshole he could be the boss. The moral of the story is: You don't have to be a brain to be the boss. Just an asshole.

I've worked for exactly two different firms in my work life. In both cases, they were excelent bosses (you know, the ones who care for and are an inspiration to their employees). I was once told that I "had no ambition" because I refused to search for a higher-paying job. My answer? "No, I have a DIFFERENT kind of ambition - not to work for assholes. And I've fullfilled it." Abel, Ramon, hats off to the two of you.

5:25 If you are in the USA, this is illegal. National Labor Relations Act is a federal law, it doesn’t vary by state. You are protected when you discuss work conditions with coworkers, including openly talking about your wages and benefits. There are a few exceptions, but for the vast majority of employees in the US, this is a protected right. Your boss tells you to stop talking about your pay so you can keep getting underpaid.

The 'Just once I wish my employees would say...." Sign, Yeah that's a pretty big red flag get out of there

Working with two middle aged bosses they discussed my body and whether I "was good at sex", right there in front of a male customer. Then they asked me if I wanted to star in a home made porn film. I was 17/18. Male customer was so concerned he actually waited around the corner till he saw both of them leave and then came back in to give me advice to quit immediately, just lock the shop door and put the keys through the letter box. Gave me his name and address and told me if my unemployment claim was denied he would be a witness for me. One of my bosses was the town Mayor at the time. Yes I left and no my claim wasn't denied. This was back in the early 80s, so there wasn't anything I could other than leave.

There's a reason that I told my children and grandchildren that unless you are the boss, you're working for an idiot. At a meeting once, the Plant Manager told us that we are all responsible for quality. I pointed out that only management has the authority to decide what quality is, and that we ship sub-standard parts every day on management's orders. "If I don't get to decide what quality is, and I don't get to decide what gets shipped," I told him, "don't tell me that I'm responsible for it." I walked out of the meeting at that point. BTW: I'm union, so the PM couldn't fire me for daring to point out his hypocrisy. However, he never brought the subject up again.

I'm too European to understand. Last year I got into "trouble" with our secretary for almost not using up all 40 days of holidays in time!

worked for a family-owned construction firm once (wasnt one of the family who owned it) - one year a couple weeks before xmas, the boss comes round to tell us that NOT ONLY was the company unable to afford any xmas bonuses that year, BUT ALSO they were going to shut down over the holiday & lay everyone off (so not only would we not get any straight pay, but we'd lose any vacation pay that we hadnt used yet) - after we came back to work after Jan 1, the big boss was being a big jerk, slamming doors, yelling at everyone, that kind of thing, and finally the supervisor corralled his secretary: "why is Floyd so upset?" "he's mad because you guys didnt chip in to get him a xmas gift this year!" a lot of us bailed out soon after that, and someone had the last laugh by calling the feds & turning in the big boss for software piracy.

The Great Resignation is because of bosses/companies like these.

At 3:34, the “COFFEE IS FOR FULL TIME STAFF ONLY” is the one the got me. Seriously?!? Every business I’ve worked for or visited in my life had free, complimentary coffee for employees, visitors, guests, or whoever happened to be in the building and wanted coffee. This is incredibly petty.

Wow. All of them were bad but, that last one was very "special" I can pretty much guarantee that none of those things were ever said by the sign maker before they became a boss and, judging by the level of entitlement shown in the sign, l bet they were a nightmare employee.

Working as a machinist in the 80s I arrived to work late one day. The boss asked me why I was late. I told him my clutch blew up on the way in and I had to hitch hike the rest of the way. He told me, "You should leave earlier so when little things like that happen I wouldn't be late!" Needless to say I quit soon after.

I had a boss once who would berate us all the time and wanted to cut our vacation time. We unionised the place and when he saw he could no longer treat us badly, he quit.

It's funny how your boss can take an entire day off because a few people who don't even know they exist have lost a sports game, but if a dear family member of yours suddenly falls seriously ill or even passes away, such as a father or a mother, someone who has taken care of you for decades, then you're just playing the victim and finding excuses not to work.

I worked for a boss much like these bosses and it lasted all of two hours. He screamed at me! I had a very good resume' and came with a LOT of work experience, more than that clown ever had and yet he felt a need to scream at me in less than two hours. I got up, left his office and he yelled, "I'm not finished with you" to which I replied, "Oh yes you are you sawed off sob - your lack of self-esteem has certainly caused you a lot of emotional problems and until you can learn to be a real boss, you'll never keep good employees". Cya.

Once had my Resources department tell me I didn’t need the day off to go to my fathers funeral because I worked nights. “Just go after work and you can still be on time for the shift afterwards!” Needless to say I made sure that didn’t happen.

Worst job for me (years ago) was being a viticulture student with a training college. We got bussed out to vineyards each day to provide free labour for the wealthy owners. We were told it was illegal to pay us, as we were students. At the end of it, we were given 'certificates in viticulture". I applied for a job at one of the vineyards afterwards and was rejected on the grounds that I hadn't done any paid work in the industry. What a scam that was.

5:30 - you are allowed to discuss wages per the National Labor Relations Act. Just FYI for anyone here not aware of that. I didn't know that until I was in my early 40's. Wish I had known earlier.

I had a manager who was hanging on by a thread with the company. He hassled me when I got to work a few min late after visiting with my terminally ill father. Then he shows up at the funeral home during the wake! Asked me when I'll be in. It was on veterans day. On a Monday. My birthday was Thursday. I told him I'd see him next week! He was fired after we had to fill out a form about how we felt about the company & management.

😑😑😑😑😑 *An old boss obviously didn't want us to take time off at the same time. So we took turn. But then she ranted off about how come there's always one person taking time off each month. We were a team of 12...*

I’m retired now, but some these triggered me. I was in the hospital with double pneumonia when the supervisor “ visited” me and wanted to know when I was returning to work.

A place I use to work at called me wanting me to work the overnight shift that night. I was two states away, literally at a family member's funeral that he knew about... He got pissy when I told him it would take me from that moment to the beginning of the shift to get there and I was not leaving the funeral nor driving through two states to then work all night. He started to threaten me as I was hanging up on him.

The best thing to come out of Covid is how easy it is to just work somewhere else. Everyone is hiring. Maybe one day corporations might realize their employees are actual people, not just vehicles to make the CEO and share holders more money.

We were at DIsneyland and my wife's boss called and said he might need her after all so could you just stay in the hotel room for a couple of days? She told him no and gave notice when she got back. He must have been insane.

I remember a retail job where our dept (covered by 2 clerks) was on 2 floors. We always tried to have one person watching the register, but occasionally both of us were helping elsewhere and a customer would have to wait a few minutes to check out. The manager decided to install a desk bell. We tossed it in the trash. The next one was screwed to the counter. We opened it up and removed the little ringer on the inside. The last one was a different model that couldn't have the top removed. We filled it with super glue through the opening on the top. The next week the bell was gone. Funny how these things happen.

I've been retired since 2007. It's easy to see things haven't improved in the workplace. My advice, know your state work laws, don't hesitate to report the company to the DOL and be sure to have notes of dates/times/those involved to help prosecute the A-holes.

I once had a boss who made a point of keeping the group for which I was the Task Leader under budget on a government contract to ensure the contract would always be renewed. We didn't mind too much, since the work was actually interesting... until we found out our main competitor, doing almost identical work for a different part of the agency on the other side of the building, was paying their staff actual market rate. Their contracts were also always renewed even though my group was the one that kept winning awards. After some serious lunchtime talks, I had my entire group use one lunch break to visit the boss' office at company HQ and explained to him very politely that if we didn't get pay parity, he'd lose the contract because none of us would continue working for the company. We all got 40% -- yes, *forty* percent - raises and oddly enough, the contract renewals continued unabated. :-)

The pettiness of some of the notices remind me of Dolores Umbridge in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

I would have used the Trump bucks to lite a joint in front of my boss!🤣😂

Whenever we had " we value you" (aka your hard work gave management more money) pizza, our boss would make sure nobody took more that 2 slices and she took the rest home. Pretty sure she was the one who ordered, probably got extra, using company money.

Easy solution for 90% of these - don't share your personal number with people at work. If you're not on the clock, you're unavailable.

I had some pretty awful bosses. The old narcissistic lady married with a younger guy, who was a painter in her younger years, and she hired me to take care of her cottage. I was alone to clean, change the bedsheets, do the laundry, serve the clients, prepare the breakfasts, it was insanely exhausting and she was a horrible person. I also worked in a vineyard few years in a row, the boss was a raging alcoholic and a violent psycho. His wife was probably cheating on him with the young male employees. I also had a summer job once where we had to pick corn in the fields, the heat was unbearable and our manager didn't even brought water to us, as it's usually done in the agricultural jobs. He was also a huge AH. Tell me about awful bosses lol

Just remembered another odd one...wife worked in a hospital and a fellow nurse had worked there 20 years and for her anniversary they gave her a gift certificate for a free cup of coffee...at the hospital cafeteria!!! Told her that was like getting a card saying "go to hell".

So many companies don't give a Christmas bonus that I've always been in appreciative. That is, until I worked for a small company and we got two $10 off coupons for a restaurant chain, that the owner got for free.

Had a boss who was an absolutely incompetent jerk. Credit where it is due, what he was really good at was making others believe he was competent. He knows all the right phrases and was a smooth talker. That impression lasted about 5 minutes once you actually started working with him. Took all the praise for things that went well, took credit for work that others did and had zero issues throwing team members under the bus to make himself look better. Also tried to play us against each other. (BIG mistake #1 because we are a very tight-knit team that has been working together for many years) Tried to leave as few paper trails as possible, so somehow we managed to have at least two ppl around when he came in. Also made a couple VERY inappropriate remarks about female colleagues to some of us, when nobody else was around. After the second person from our team handed in their resignation explicitly stating they were not willing to work anymore under his lead, alarm bells started ringing at HR. He was fired within hours of the second person leaving the premises. They had again spilled the beans about his conduct, and hinted that if this person remained in that post for longer, there was a real chance the entire team might end up quitting. They let it slip that two of us were already looking at job openings and one actually had an offer to work somewhere else and had asked to sleep on it. We were running at 120% capacity plus overtime because we had to pick up the slack from the two people who had left. We were barely hanging on. Meanwhile, Mr Incompetent loved to hold meetings. As many meetings as possible. He plastered us with completely pointless and idiotic meetings until we could not get any work done and started missing deadlines (which then of course was „our“ fault). Even when I told him point blank that an important project will not get done if I have to join the meeting right away, he insisted „No, I really need you to be there…“ Needless to say, this was one more of those meetings where you still have no clue why you are there 10 minutes in except to indulge someone who loves to hear himself talk. Wasted time all around, and we caught flak for missing a deadline. Thankfully the entire company had our backs because some other department heads had caught on to this dude’s complete lack of competence. This made the rounds pretty quickly. Wherever possible we tried to get things done with other departments without involving him. Said manager lasted about a year and made two very competent and experienced colleagues quit out of sheer frustration, one of whom had been with us for almost a decade. This idiot manager’s termination came like a bolt from the blue for him and he was visibly shocked. He was completely oblivious to the fact that the writing had been on the wall for him for several weeks. He was a marked man at that point and pretty much everybody else knew what was going to happen but not when. We later learned that he was moaning about how he was a victim of an illoyal team that had conspired against him. Which was not entirely incorrect, to be honest. But then, loyalty and respect have to be earned. We were cleaning up the damage he had caused for several months. His email inbox contained some pretty major landmines that would really have gotten a whole lot of people into a heap of trouble and cost the company a fortune.

Fifteen years after graduating university with a master's degree I was making (in today's dollar equivalent) $93,000 with full benefits. I then quit my job due to having to work for similar jerks as the bozos described in these emails. I started my own business and after a few years I was making $200,000 with only clients to answer to. To my former bosses (except one) I say to them 🖕

The clip at 6:15 - if I had been the manager, I'd also have guaranteed the customers wouldn't be served by a person of colour...then I'd have just left them sitting there with nobody serving them.

I worked for a restaurant that wanted a 19 yr old to come back to work after she said her Mother (who she lives with) had Covid. 'if you dont have symptoms you can still work as long as you haven't tested positive.' I quit.

0:33 In Germany your boss will get mad if you don't take your vacation days, because they will get problems with the unions. By law you are entitled to two weeks of continuous leave and the total leave by law is 20 working days for a 5 day work week or 24 days for a 6 day work week. However, in most companies there are 30 working days of vacation. In addition, if you are severely disabled by more than 50 degrees, you are entitled to another 5 days in case of a 5-day week. And these days do not include sick days. On the contrary, in the case of illness on vacation you get the vacation credited again, because vacation is for recreation and illness is not recreation. Sick leave is paid for 6 weeks by your boss, after that about 60% of your normal brutto income for a year by your insurance company without the need to pay tax or insurance with that money. (In Germany you are paid a netto income by your employer, no saving for the IRS at the end of the year. Netto is your brutto minus taxes and insurances (health and employment)).

TBH at my age, I'm getting Soft. When our new Supervisor demoralized the team, I was the THIRD Person to quit.

I once had a boss that asked me to work at little faster. It was my first month of the job, and I was still getting used to the procedures and what not. I admit I’m not the fastest employee, but I’m not as slow as a turtle either. I told that he could have me work fast and have everything look terrible, or he could let me work at my own pace and everything would be neat and organized. He never brought it up again.

It's so funny how bosses of the lowest-paying, crappiest jobs in the world somehow think people will do everything they say instead of going anywhere else.

As long as you keep working for bosses like this, especially if you know about, is sending the message that "this behavior" is ok. As with every bad thing, decide if it's worth tolerating. You deserve to be treated with respect. Nothing less.

I had to put up with that crap for 40 some years and when I finally retired (they think they forced me out but I was ready to quit) it was like winning the Lotto!

About that soda one: I worked at Transamerica. They put a cart out with 4 six packs of Dollar brand soda in front of security cameras to see who would take 1. One lady got fired for taking $1 worth of soda!

Ooh. "Not doing others' work is lazy and arrogant." Maybe once. Twice is exploitation.

When I worked for Crete Carrier, after being out sick for 6 weeks, my boss called me one day to check on me. He informed me I needed hurry and get better as my work was piling up, and there was no one else to do it.

This sadly is mostly an American problem. These stories should be rare but they are actually the NORM. I would say a good 40% or more are court room worthy, but people are too scared/tired to do anything about it. My last boss forced me to take an hour lunch and docked me an hours pay but I still had to work 30 minutes of my hour lunch. Then when I was a few minutes late he said I was stealing time. Literally was about to punch him in the face because he couldn't understand the irony (and that it was illegal what he was doing). I'm honestly shocked America hasn't imploded yet. American companies are the single reason unions were invented to try and prevent exploitation but then the unions began exploiting. You leave America and people will get into trouble for NOT taking vacation or working more than 8 hours a day. People ask me why I work so hard on my online business and not make as much. They say just get a job and I usually scream NO. I don't want to go to jail. If I have to work for another psycho narc that has NO IDEA how to run a business one more time I will end up in prison for assault. So I will happily sell random crap online. I don't care how much money I make as long as it allows me to keep my sanity.

2:36 In the Netherlands a whole mall was to be renovated. On the square in the middle about fifty workmen stood ready to start when a man found a nest in the tree. It seemed to be bird eggs that are pretty rare. They had to wait a month before they could continue.

The best part of quitting your job is to tell your boss OFF . OVER ,OVER AND OVER.😀

I had a couple of guys make some very racist jokes to one of my darker skinned employees. I told them to get out. They refused. I GENTLY ESCORTED them out. The entire FULL restaurant clapped. Middle of nowhere Wisconsin. That is how normal people deal with racism in the real world.

5:27 lots of companies in the USA tell you you can not discuss wage with other employees, it is left over from a fear of staff unionising, HOWEVER it is a protected form of speech in the US and even if it is mentioned in a staff handbook, or a contract it is still protected and it is actually unlawful for a company to forbid it.... as such getting a warning or anything more serious from a company for discussing wages/salary is actually illegal. so the poster should keep that as evidence.

If you are ever written up for discussing pay and have a form like that, you have a wonderful settlement from the company for a violation of worker's rights by the way. The right to discuss wages is federally protected.

5:24 -- Fun fact: It is illegal for an employer to forbid employees from discussing their compensation with each other.

@8:16 I worked for a company that would immediately have you collect any personal items, escort you to your auto, and be witnessed off the lot if you gave 2 weeks notice. They would pay you for doing nothing for two weeks. It went into effect after six months perfect attendance. It was part of the hire in agreement.

I worked for a “State Government Corporation,” they didn’t pay overtime, only Comp. Time. When we went on vacation or out sick, which was rare. We were paid first out of Comp. Time. Even if we were over the maximum limit on accrued on our Vacation or Sick pay, and had to forfeit, anymore of this benefit. So we were basically working overtime for free.

I'm an Aussie woman. work in logistics as a forklift operator for a large contract wine bottling company. we get 10 paid sick days a year. we get 4 weeks paid annual leave a year. plus one paid RDO (rostered day off ) per month...you can let them build up though, and cash them out if you want instead of taking them. our uniforms, and all safety gear, e.g. boots, prescription safety glasses, hearing protection, wet weather gear for working outside if we need it, is all supplied at no cost to us. we also get 3 days paid carer leave if a family member is sick. and 3 days paid bereavement leave in the case of a death in the family. if you have a serious illness, or injury that didnt happen at work, that means you wont be back to work for a long time, once you have used up 20 days of sick leave, or it runs out, income protection kicks in and pays 90% of your wages for up to 2 years if need be. we used to get 12 dozen bottles of really nice wine per year for free as well. that changed recently due to company restructuring, and in place of that, we now get a total of $700-00 of vouchers a year to use at either a bottle shop chain (liquor store) or at a local supermarket/department store. plus an extra $50 gift card at Christmas to use at another shopping centre. its not a perfect place to work at. but comparing it to all the stories I see in this video it makes it sound like paradise. I feel really sorry for all of those that shared their stories. you deserve better than that.

My last job, i woke up one day not feeling my legs. I called in, went to hospital asap. My doctor made all kinds of appointments for specialists to run tests to try to find out what the problem was. I kept in contact with my boss letting them know about all of my appointments, still willing to work if i could sit in a chair at the register. She texted me back, saying, "you have a lot going on right now, should i just term you?" and she eventually did. :/

Can relate to the first one. I was told by my then boss to stop being so upset after three deaths in the family in less than a month. I ripped her a new one. And as for that sign with the bottom right corner saying gladly accept a pay cut, that's just plain dumb. When another employer slugged me with a 10% pay cut without warning... well, I still don't think they realised why I quit.

This does not fill me with hope for finding a good boss, once I start working.

I’m so glad I don’t work for a fly by night company with this “we are family” bullshit.

Most of my jobs have been pretty good, but there was one about 20 years ago... When I started working there, I was 30th in terms of senority. When I got caught up in the quarterly round of layoffs, I was _6th_. Three or four people quit, but in 18th months, they'd laid off 21 people in a 30 person company and had hired replacements. My personal favorite was the guy who got let go because "he closed the blinds on his window in the wrong direction" The boss had about four "good" employees, who could blame literally anything on one of the "bad" employees, and the boss would blindly accept what he was told. In my case, I came back from vacation and immediately got called into the office to be told I was being written up. For something that happened while I was gone. With a client that I'd never had any dealings with. When I explained that, I was told that my biggest problem was that I "refused to take criticism". He didn't much like it when in the exit interview when I was being fired, I told him that I'd had exactly two good days working for his company-the day he hired me, and the day he fired me.

I worked at a major grocery chain and the boss was all of 5'3" tall....the same height as myself but being male and short he suffered from a HUGE Napoleon complex. Company policy was to acknowledge people no matter who it was if they were within 4 feet of you at anytime. When I spoke to the butcher ( I was in produce) he came storming out of his office and dressed us down. He'd been watching on CCTV. It got to the point where myself and the butcher only were 3xpected to remain mute for 8 hours. When we complied, he got upset, wrote us up, deducted hours, all kinds of petty punative crap. I wasn't having any of it, I know my rights. So, some e mails to his boss and lightly veiled threats of going to the media had him screeching how nobody respected him. He was right, we respected ourselves. More than half the staff walked out en masse. His profits dropped and corporate shows up a month later to get to the bottom of flagging profits. Suffice to say, he's a pump jockey now at the gas station next door. Threats of lawsuits and investigations from the Ministry of Labour was enough to get the higher ups to take action but without myself and the butcher starting the ball rolling, he'd still be like Hitler in his little fiefdom making school girls cry when they spoke without asking.

When I was 18 I went over the handlebars of a motorised scooter and fractured my arm. I called my boss at the bar I worked at and told him I wouldn't be able to work that night and maybe not for a few days. He told me in his day they used to do farm work with 2 broken arms. He was born into money, gifted the bar from his multi-millionaire dad and had never done any menial labour in his life. On at least 2 occasions he also told other bar staff (7 out of 10 of which were my closest friends since school) that he was going to sack me, and then lied and said he hadn't when I confronted him about it.

My boss is like a diaper, he's always on my ass, and he's always full of shit.

Not the boss, but the foreman on a job who was the boss's brother. This was an electrical contractor I worked for. Not as an electrician, but a general laborer. I'm fairly small and have issues with my shoulders, and had recently dislocated one. The boss calls an tells me that another site needs help with easy things like setting up spools for wire-pulls and laying out electrical sockets near their wall boxes etc. He says it's easy stuff, and it shouldn't bother my shoulders. I told him to please make sure that the foreman understands that I can not be lifting light fixtures over my head or carrying 20 ft sections of 5-inch conduit, and stuff like that. He assures me that he has already spoken to the foreman, and that there were already a few "strapping young guys" on the job who are doing the heavy lifting stuff. I get there and this foreman immediately points to a stack of 2-ftX4-ft florescent light fixtures, and says those need carried to the building and put in. Well I did try. After about 5 of them, my bad shoulder popped out again. Meanwhile the young guys (two of whom were built like football players) are sitting on the floor installing outlets or telecom/ethernet ports. I was the only one lifting 60 pound light fixtures over my head and installing them into drop-ceiling grid with hardly any clearance above to angle them in to place. So it was a fight to wedge each one in and get it dropped into the grid-rails. I went to the foreman and asked him to switch me out with one of those young guys, and mentioned that the big boss himself assured me that I wouldn't be doing any overhead or heavy lifting. The foreman flat out refused and said "Get back to work." I'm back on the 10 ft ladder struggling to get this fixture into its slot, 12 feet above the floor. My shoulder pops again with sharp pain and I drop the damn thing. It's totally fucked. One of the young guys offers to trade me jobs and the foreman comes in having a fit saying "NO! You do the what you were doing!" I tell him that I can't be lifting these up like this. or more are going to get ruined. Still having fits, he goes on about "If you can't do the job you were assigned and paid to do, then get off my site!" I told him that I was assigned to do exactly what the younger and physically fit, strong guys were doing. NOT to be the heavy lifting grunt.. He ran me off the site and later got a call from the boss, reaming him out. It was a common thing for this company to have the older and smaller workers do the heavy lifting while the young guys (Who got paid more than double, mind you) just did the light work. Once, a 65 year old guy with a bad leg and I were carrying 2, 20 ft sections of 5-inch heavy-wall pvc conduit to lay it out for placement into a trench. We were supposed to have help from the "electrician" (the young, overpaid guy). Him and I are slogging these things through mud and and having to climb over the piles of dirt as well. We're covered in mud and it's clinging to our (required) steel-toe boots. We are piling them beside the open trench as we were told. We get about 10 of these things sitting there with no help in sight. So we head off to get two more. Mid you, we're carrying these about 250 yards from the lot, to the trench, around a building. As we get around a corner, out of the shadow of the building and into the sunlight, I saw our "help" chilling in the dry grass, on a large piece of cardboard box that he had carried there. He's in his clean American Eagle jeans and spotless white Ralph Lauren shirt and white Nike shoes, an Arizona tea sitting on the grass beside him, he's spinning his Raybans in his hand, and occasionally flicking the screen of his Apple-phone. I asked him if he was going to help carry these things. He said "Nah, don't wanna get my jeans dirty. Hey, can you take those two on up to the head of the trench? The grass is still wet over there, and I have my good shoes on." So I told the guy with me, "Sam, Drop these motherfuckers right here! We're taking a break!" I turned to Mr. Priss, and told him "Here's your conduit. We carried them to you, You're the "Electrician". You install them! By the way, You are supposed to have steel-toes, work clothes and a hardhat. Not Nikes and 90 dollar nut-huggers!" Sam & I walked off and went had a smoke & coffee break. This time the boss took the side of the "electrician". But Sam "Mysteriously" got a call from his elderly mother and had to go.. Guess who I rode to work with.... Sam. He was my ride, since my house was on his way to & from the site. I had to go too. Mr. Priss had to get his clothes dirty, and installed the conduit in the muddy trench himself. As was his job to do, anyway. He also got wrote up for not having proper work clothes and boots. Edit for fixing whatever typos I saw only after hitting the "Comment" button. You know, Typos are only noticed after submitting the comment...

7:20 no doubt the boss was a jerk...but a lot of places have had to implement a strict "no giving expired food away" due to greedy people who eat an item given freely (or taken from dumpster) and then sue for it "making them sick". The companies won't risk bad publicity but will pay off then enforce new rules to avoid losing business. Always a few rotten apples to spoil the whole barrel.

In all my years of working I can honestly say I’ve had 4 nice bosses, the rest were horrible…

6:40 Here's a thought, Boss Man/Lady ~ Close your business on THANKSGIVING DAY!!! Unless you're a hospital or the fire station, you can close 😉

My last boss was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive. Becoming disabled a few months after I quit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Which says a lot about work in the USA.

I worked for a place that deducted $5 a week, if you preferred to wear jeans, instead of slacks. We were told the funds went towards our "Christmas" party. Keep in mind..$5 a week x 52 weeks is $260 from each employee.... Christmas came around, and our "party" consisted of a subway sandwich, and a Coke, distributed to us at our desk, which we were then only allowed to eat during our regular 15 minute break, in the breakroom. Needless to say, their turnover rate was ridiculous. Never could see how they can't understand that loyalty goes both directions. If you shit on people, they shit on you.

I once worked at clothing shop where we were requested to come 30 mins before opening to vacuum and clean and finish 30 mins after closing but not allowed to put this in our timesheet. It was women clothing company who had posters everywhere how they support women but it was the most shittiest environment where we not allowed to sit till your break even if store is empty.

Seeing stuff like this makes me so glad I am retired.

We had a TERRIBLE boss at work. so the owner came down one night. Cleaned out bad bosses office put everything by the curb. Now we have a great boss. And New Trucks. Not new "used" trucks.

I'm pleasantly surprised that there was enough time between posts to actually read them. Not a lot of channels do that.

My last job I was working in was a warehouse where we were pretty spaced out and we got grief for not coming in for being sick so I came in one day and I wasn’t feeling well. Coughing and sneezing. I told him later on that I wouldn’t be able to ride in the van to deliver something because it’s in a closed area and I didn’t want to get the other person sick. It was a Wednesday. I was so sick I had to take the next two days off and I rarely miss work. I came in the next Monday and he pulled me over and said that it was borderline insubordination. I told him if you hate that you’ll really hate what I’m about to say and I told him that that was my last day. He told me to leave and I did. I wasn’t trying to blind side him but that group did shady shit and now they’ve lost so many people one area is closed because they don’t have anyone that knows how to work it. I had enough and man did it feel good

wow I thought it was just me...about the vacation days...every time I ask for one, I get grief about it...why do they give them to you then...

Slavery was outlawed in 1865 in the U.S. but I see some people never really got used to that.

The provided meal made me recall the holiday I was working at a nursing home. The bosses did treat us well and went all out to show that they appreciated our work. That holiday, I was working the evening shift and the bosses arranged to have a holiday meal made for us. They planned on Fllet Mignon with the usual trimmings. Each unit went in shifts and taking food was on the honor system, which had always worked before, but this time when the first people came back, the told us there was no steak and while the kitchen staff put it out, all that was there was the empty pan. So our holiday meal was roast potatoes, green beans, dinner roll, and apple pie. We later learned that a maintenance worker had snuck in and taken all the meat as he was leaving to go home. He was fired and after that each holiday, someone from the kitchen staff was there to serve us the meal.

I have bever understood companies that refuse to tell you what they pay or what shift you would have, what experience you need, etc untill you go through all of the applications and interviews and physicals and drug tests. I wasted half my life applying for jobs that paid way too little, or needed a qualification that i didnt have.

I once worked for a company that had us use travel letters for our expenses in the field. When we were finally issued credit cards, company executives got upset because those were reserved for their positions only.

8:52 That one is lovely. I'm sure the "Just Once I Wish My Boss Would Say" board is a riot as well.

Previous boss here. I had 25 employees. I gave all the my employees freedom from having the boss above their head watching them all the time. Three of them gave me a very bad time. One insulted me, yelled at me and became nearly violent. I learned that he had been influenced by an acquaintance who held a similar job elswhere. He was told he was exploited with a low pay. I told him that I knew he was illiterate and could not even write a tweet on his phone, I had compensated for many years for his inabilities because I had pity on him. The other two stole goods from my Inventory and paid time to run their sidelines. Every one had an automatic raise every year according to that years inflation rate and five days paid holidays on top of their vacation. I decided to sell my business and those three were kicked out by the new owner. (The illiterate one nearly busted a vein when he was told to fill out sales reports every week on his newly supplied computer.)

7:57 - Wow. They're upset about the 50 cents that an employee costs them for charging their 📱. 50 cents for A YEAR'S worth of charging.

At 5:30 - I worked at EDS in the late 80's early 90's: people got FIRED for discussing pay. That was the one taboo subject. Two EDS workers could discuss anything but paychecks. In case you are wondering, H Ross Perot, the guy that created EDS, was the ONLY corporate CEO that rescued his people, EDS employees, from Iran in 1979 when the Shah was ousted. All other companies looked to the US Gov't, which always moves slowly, so their people were held hostage. Perot did it himself, told Jimmy Carter just stay out of my way.

Nothing wrong with giving away the expired soda to anyone who wants it, better than it getting thrown out

I once worked for 12 long minutes in a cookie factory....I had to put a kind of jelly in a machine with a 20l bucket... if there was no jelly the alarm went of, the whole line would stop and 20 pale people would stare at me....started a t 8, at 8.13 I was driving home...lol

2:21 my regional manager has said this same stupid shit before. The way I see it is everyone should pull their own weight. Not someone (me) doing more work than the other 2 guys in the warehouse. I'm pulling more than my own weight for my work. Case in point Friday they expect me to move the tanker on the pad to unload it once I'm done loading my dad's truck, yet that same tanker has to be turned around to position it on the pad to unload which can't be done because I'm not allowed to take the trucks on the road period, and the hoses won't reach under the trailer. Plus the guy that brought the truck back the day before won't stay long enough to even bother to move it, nor will they make him do it. Plus they've been telling me the same bull shit lie since November about them sending me to truck driving school. While I did want to get my Class A CDL back then that ship has sailed because they won't backup what they say. Oh and my dad's truck never got done being loaded until 6 pm and everyone else was gone...

The boss who made that last sign needs to be drug-tested immediately. Sad part is, I even did one of those when I took a pay to switch from contractor scum to full time minion.

Two of the worst bosses I ever had were former Army 2nd Lieutenants.

Does this make anyone else wonder if the jerk bosses are behind the video, just trying to get people to lower their expectations? Now i want a video about awesome bosses to compete with this one and make all the lousy bosses worried about how good others can have it somewhere else!

2:29: my company used to have a work concept similar to this. Then we got taken over, and the new structure virtually forbids you do anything outside your “swim lane”

Youd be surprised how much a little call to osha or food safety departments can absolutely ruin these businesses and in turn, the bosses lives.

That last sign...good God.

5:13 was with the latest supervisor I had. Everybody, including the director, kept telling her what foods I was allergic to and she kept bringing in all these treats, snacks. My director even joked with the supervisor that she was trying to kill me. Thank the Lord I resigned(it wasn't because of that. So many other problems and issues).

When I was in college, I worked at a pizza place in the kitchen. One night me and my roommate were cooking out and drinking beer when my boss Mark calls me from work. He asked if I could come in tonight due to the fact some of the cooks called off. I told him im about 8 beers into a 12 pack and cant drive to work, so he goes, "I will have one of the delivery drivers come get you". I said Im not going into work drunk so I can cut my fingers off or smash my hand in the dough roller. He seriously sat there on the phone waiting for me to say yes...come pick me up.

Free sodas were mostly fine, most of that kind of stuff has a shelf life a lot shorter then you expect, and completely safe to consume. Due to liability reasons, they can't sell it.

Ah the eternal struggle between managerial staff and regular people.

That's not my job is an understatement. I have litterly seen people just handing off work to the ones who get it done. You know who gets the best bonuses and raises? The snakes

Amazon is well known for texting you before your shift and it doesn't matter if it's 3 AM or if it's Christmas morning