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Having a boss that cares about you is the best. Encouraging your personal and professional development, making you feel like a valuable member of the team, even saying a simple "thank you" really contributes to job satisfaction.

Sometimes, however, it feels like this boss doesn't even exist. Like they're just a fictional character, created by some business management faculty to trick students into joining the workforce.

Take this viral thread for example.

It started with a tweet by comedian Kevin McCaffrey. In it, McCaffrey recalled the time when he told his manager that his grandma had died before a double shift he was scheduled for. Their response? "Can you just work one shift?"

As the tweet blew up, people started replying with baffling phrases they heard from bosses themselves. Below are some of the most delirious ones.

Bored Panda got in touch with McCaffrey to learn more about the story behind his famous tweet. "I was a server in Anderson, Indiana for 4 months in 2003," he said. "Was I happy with it? No, haha, but I don't blame OG. It was a good server job in the area, the employees were very cool overall."

McCaffrey doesn't really remember what the real reason was that day, but he has a theory. "The TV department at Ball State's activity fair (called SuperParty) where people sign up for what shows they want to work on for the year. I was the host and EP of a late night talk show, and they wouldn't let me take the day off. I wasn't gonna miss it, so fake grandma had to have a bad day."

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Bella Jones
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmm .... she was happy to ignore the roaches up until the employer upset her. Not cool. Not cool at all.

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The main thing McCaffrey took away from all the replies his tweet got was that "management, in every job, is delusional."

"They demand far more than they're willing to give almost everywhere, and expect people who are clearly working survival jobs to bail on everything in their lives to deliver unlimited salad and breadsticks for 2.13 an hour and an average of about 10% tip," he said. "I also learned that there are plenty of people very mad that I lied in 2003 at the Anderson Indiana Olive Garden and missed that shift."

A study by CareerBuilder.com shows that a whopping 58 percent of managers said they didn’t receive any management training. Let that sink it. Most managers in the workforce were promoted because they were good at what they did, not because they made the people around them better. This statistic might explain their lack of competence. Our leaders aren't trained to lead.

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Here's another interesting fact for you. Leigh Branham, author of The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave revealed that 89 percent of bosses believe employees quit because they want more money. I bet any boss would love this statistic to be true (because it basically pardons them from wrong-doing) but it is simply not true. Only 12 percent of employees actually leave an organization for more money.

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Max
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, 99% of people in food service are there just because they get paid. It's not really a 'calling' or 'career'.

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Marcellus the Third
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a bit perplexed that work would even have the right to know your Dr, let alone ring them on a whim.

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A Harvard Business Review survey revealed that only 49% of full-time workers responded that they had "a great deal of trust" in those working above and alongside them. 

That becomes a bigger problem when you consider their other research which has found that positive teams that trust each other are more productive, creative, and resilient and improve the organization’s overall effectiveness.

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Z Kalnina
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good riddance! Some employers don't want you to be educated because you will quit then anyway. Best be out of that environment.

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Recognition is the number one thing employees say their manager could give them to elevate their job satisfaction to new heights. Sadly, as you can see from the tweets, not every boss gets it. Global studies prove that when it comes to inspiring people to be their best at work, nothing else comes close—not even higher pay, promotion, autonomy, or training.

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Gallup discovered that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. However, its analytics suggest they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup found that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.

Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units, and this variation is in turn responsible for severely low worldwide employee engagement. Gallup reported in two large-scale studies in 2012 that only 30% of U.S. employees are engaged at work, and a staggeringly low 13% worldwide are engaged.

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If only they listened more.

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James016
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t know how it works in the USA but that must be a health and safety violation.

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N G
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not 3 days to get over it. It's 3 days to sort the paperwork. They're not offering "grief leave".

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KoalaLa
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm all for inclusivity, but you can't expect the whole restaurant system changes because of you being autistic?

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WilvanderHeijden
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you take paid time off over medical leave? No boss is going: " Wow, what an outstanding employee!!! Taking PTO instead of the medical leave he could have gotten. Amazing, remind me to promote him and give him a raise when he comes in." Instead they'll be like: " Jeez, what a dumb@ss. Remind me to fire him when he returns."

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Ian Koch
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they got injured while working... then she was asked to come back to work the same day. by her boss. I would say this to the boss, before quitting: Do you are have stupid.

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Derpy Dino
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wow, kidney stones suck(from what ive heard) and if your pissing rocks, you need to stay home.

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Mama Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am sorry about your miscarriage and they should have sent you home. As for the other two complaints you had, all I can say is it's retail and the expectation is that you are there to work through holidays. Your anniversary, while special to you and your hubby, well if you didn't get your request for time off in a timely manner, that is not your boss's fault. It's the nature of the beast and the beast is retail.

Lexi Mitchell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right? SOMEONE has to work on thanksgiving, and nobody cares except you about your anniversary or birthday or whatever. I’m not even sure why people get mad about that, like otherwise they’d be spending the entire 24 hours doing anniversary stuff? I mean I don’t spend my whole birthday doing birthday stuff, and usually have to do birthday stuff on a different day.

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Patrick McKemie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, how do you pandas think this is supposed to go. "Oh, yeah, she's rude, but it's our job to work around her problems?!?

Jods
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A female work colleague suddenly started to have a problem with alcohol and would fly into a rage for the tiniest reason. She got a written warning but did not give a reason for drinking on the job. Months later we were in the kitchen area on our own and she admitted she had suffered a yet another miscarriage felt ashamed of telling anyone. The anyone being a male manager who would not even sanction time off to attend direct family funerals. So I definitely have sympathy for her post.

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Jods
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can we get Punished Edward “punished” because he is such an a**e hole?

TheFakeSteveRogers
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He didn't have to Fire you, he should understand it. It 's because out of anger, and you wanted to Vent it out, that's why you were Rude.

EQXL
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way I read I see two invalid reasons and one valid reason and the way it is brought it seems uncommunicative about so I guess the boss just had to guess

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zovjraar
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i worked every Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve when i worked at Target. didn't automatically get my anniversary off either /s. my husband worked there too. we had to work weekends and holidays. because that's retail. if you want time off, you put in for time off. i am sorry she lost her baby, and she should have been granted some time off for that (not sure Target does that). but the rudeness is on her.

Tina Russell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Treating you like s**t is fine until you start treating them like s**t. The selfishness of people continues to amaze me.

KT
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's hardly what i would call mysterious for getting fired. It's target, an easily replaceable job, put your private life first

Robert T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sad part is that you felt you had to be rude and were happy to be fired.

Lexi Mitchell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, why take it out on the coworkers because the boss wouldn’t let her having thanksgiving off? Sorry about her losing the baby, but the rest of it is pretty entitled and bitchy.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a strange thing to lie about. Maybe they sensed you did. And actually knowing you'd use such a lie to get out of work doesn't say great things about you. I would not want you to be my employee.

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