I was once hired as an "unpaid" marketing intern in exchange for college credits. The role required me to work 20 hours a week, spread over 4 hours a day. During my first week, the woman who hired me assigned a task that would clearly take 6-8 hours to complete, all within the same day. I politely informed her that while I would do my best, it was unlikely I could finish it within the day's deadline and asked if that would be acceptable.

Her response? A cold, "Excuse me?"

I reiterated my concern, and she abruptly ended the call. Minutes later, I received a WhatsApp message from her stating that I no longer needed to work there. Within the hour, she contacted my professor to inform them they had "let me go." I ended up in tears on a Zoom call with my professor, who was supportive. As a result of the incident, my college blacklisted the company for future internships as they were clearly unprofessional.

Repulsive_Tale_8634 , Kindel Media/pexels Report

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That would have to be George. He was at least twice my age. He leaned over my desk and said “if I jumped your bones and raped you, would you tell Jay (owner) and have me fired?” He did this in front of my manager, who said nothing.

geniologygal , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

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Jim in plumbing when I worked at Lowes.

He tried to sexually assault my gf in the break room in front of me.

Took 4 coworkers and 3 customers to keep me from ending his existence.

The company took his side and I got a very small severance to quit.

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My manager at a mall gift shop once invited me to a party at his place. "Who's going to be there?", I asked. "Some friends, maybe 5-10 people, no big thing" he replied. "Sure," I said.

Arrive at his place. No cars out front, it's quiet. Lights are on though. I ring the doorbell and Manager answers and lets me in. "Where is everyone?" I ask as I enter, as I notice there's hardly anyone else there. Except for one couple, both dressed to the 9's.

At this point you might be thinking it was some sex thing, but no, it was worse.

They pitched me Amway.

I got a job at Wal-Mart a week later.

PrettyBigChief , Alexy Almond/pexels Report

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Had a coworker who thought "collaboration" meant telling everyone else what to do and then disappearing when actual work started. He was like a magic trick: always vanishing right when you needed him. It was amazing... but not in a good way.

mysweaty_ass , Yan Krukau/pexels Report

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I worked for a very wealthy attorney whose son was convicted of being a serial r***st. The whole family treated people terribly, everyone around them was there to be used and discarded.

The fact that the son was actually convicted and publicly shamed happened only because the severity of his crimes was so egregious that the courts couldn't ignore it and the family couldn't overcome the victims' statements the way they ran over everyone else. The son's defense in court was a window into the way this family treated everyone - the victims were at fault, because they were trying to get something from him. My boss viewed everything that way, he saw his employees as money sucking expenses and instantly discounted any work they did as unimportant, unskilled, worthless. Worst boss ever.

AdWonderful5920 , Pavel Danilyuk /pexels Report

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I had a boss who tried to overrule my bonus structure within the first month of her employment. She stole a presentation I created and presented it as her own. She asked me to finish my degree and the company would pay for it from our scholarship fund… which turned into her lying to our president and me screaming at both of them (I was a single mom with thousands of debt because of them). She once told me that she could make me chauffeur her children around if she wanted to, because she was above me. She asked the president to fire me after I transferred out of her department.

Now, reader, you might assume she was evil (she was) and malicious (indeed)… but she was also as dumb as a box of rocks. This woman couldn’t tell accounting from hieroglyphics if her life depended on it.

When I finally quit that job, she requested an exit interview to which I ever so politely declined and wished her ill.

Independent-Salt8377 , MART PRODUCTION/pexels Report

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An egotistical manager who drowned himself in far too much aftershave. Lied about everything, claimed to forget conversations, what was said during conversations or make something up entirely. Flipped between the worst micromanager (that didn't have a clue what was going on the majority of the time) or disappearing for the majority of shift, which was preferable tbh.

IJustWantedThis , Karolina Kaboompics /pexels Report

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Ugh, there was this one dude who was a total micromanager. like, he’d hover over your shoulder, question every tiny thing, and then take credit for the work when it was done. worst part? he never did anything himself, just barked orders. working with him was a nightmare and made every day feel like a year.

petitesof_x , Mikhail Nilov/pexels Report

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The backstabber whose job is mostly to talk about other colleagues' mistakes except for her own.

iamKathrynn , Yan Krukau/pexels Report

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A manager who told me (a gay guy) that I should enjoy being touched up by one of the women after reporting inappropriate behaviour. This went on until a different female member of staff said they didn't like seeing it.
The manager apologised to the woman inappropriately touching me about having to "do this and have this conversation". It stopped but nothing came of it at that point.

The woman in question also spent most of the time telling other members of staff that she'd be able to turn me and that was also dismissed in my complaint.

A few months down the line, this manager failed my probation. A few months after that the manager was sacked and the woman touching me up left aburuptly. HR offered me my job back.

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I worked with a guy in a call centre who every 30 minutes at least would fart like a trooper, and I don't just mean like a normal fart, I mean like a tank had just crashed through the wall of the office fart.

Funny_Ingenuity_2070 , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

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My current employer.. she’s a very nice lady and caring as well. Problem is she has untreated ADHD and will not take her meds because she’s “fighting it.” She gets really loud when she’s excited. I’ve had to shut her office door. She is very scattered and disorganized. I have sat with her countless times to show her the folders I’ve created on her laptop in order for her to locate clients and remember what they need. I’ll be in the middle of a task and have to drop what I’m doing to start another task of “equal importance.” She spits food out on her keyboard. We have an 80 pound office dog she can’t handle which I take out and work with.. love that dog but just another interruption. Problem is I’m paid very well and she’s very generous with the bonuses. I’m not going anywhere.

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I'm a teacher. The first district I worked in was a mess, and my coworkers and I were pretty miserable in general. Part of the problem was that we had to share classrooms. For instance, I taught one period per day in another teacher's main room, while the other two periods (block schedule) were in my main room.

The teacher whose room I had to use once a day was a control freak and what I would classify as a "high-conflict individual". Everyone who had to share a room with her ended up complaining to administration because she would confront you *during class* and *in front of students*. And it was always over stupid s**t. For instance, she accused one teacher's class of stealing her pens. She once got angry with me because she thought my students were moving her textbooks...? They weren't; she was just paranoid.

I'm so glad I got out of there years ago, but I still feel for whichever poor teacher has to share a room with that woman.

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Someone who's both a compulsive liar and a one-upper. Whenever someone is talking about a positive or negative situation they are in, whether in professional or personal life, he will always try to muster up the most obviously made up story just to show that his life is better or worse depending on the situation.

Majoub619 , Anna Shvets /pexels Report

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I don't know about the quality of her character, but I did work with a girl who ditched me at work to cash her check on the clock with her girlfriend. And I then had to handle a massive dinner rush entirely by myself for more than an hour. I was working at a subway with both a drive thru and a front entrance and I had non-stop customers the entire time she was gone. I ended up having to comp everyone a free drink and ask them to wait while I worked through each person because there were so many. I made good tips that night, but that girl was my enemy until they fired her.

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I worked for a miser of man in his restaurant for 2 whole days. He was so stingy he wouldn't even let employees charge their phones. My breaking point was while I was washing my hands (which you should do anytime you touch a dirty plate before going back in the dining room) he **grabbed** my wrist, turned off the water and yelled, "YOU WASH TOO MUCH!" I left about 20 minutes later and never looked back.

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At the community gym I managed, my boss hired an office assistant for himself (but it was really for me, to do his job).

She was a smoker who wreaked. I don’t have a problem with smokers. I have one problem with that if she works in a gym with students and senior citizens, and she just stinks like an ash tray.

But wait! There’s more!! She contacted HR because one day, after four years of me coming in ten minutes early, I go in at my start time. Worse yet, I had the audacity to text her that my car was parked in by a delivery truck. She knew I would not be ten minutes early.

She made a big stink (aside from the olfactory type), and gym members heads turned to watch her berate me for being late.

It was still two minutes before my shift.

I went to the HR meeting, which was basically “why can’t we just get along?”, and it was fine for a week. She and I not speaking to one another was fine.

Then, the pandemic shut down our business.

I never saw her again.

The end.

Realistic-Most-5751 , Yan Krukau/pexels Report

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I had two people throw me under the bus for things I clearly didnt do. Luckily management didnt believe them and asked for my side of the story. They wanted my job because it "paid more" but in hindsight i was severly underpaid and overworked. I promptly asked to work out of a different location. The added 10 minute commute did so much for my mental health to not be around those people. I dont work there anymore but i know they still work in the same industry as me.

Anytime we hire someone new at my current office I pray that it's not them.

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I once worked with a woman who smoked. A lot. And she smoked horrible smelling cigarettes. You could smell her in the elevator hours after she had left... blärgh.

love-boobs-in-dm , Denx arman/pexels Report

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At 21 I worked for a very weak male project manager who would turn to jelly the moment a women was involved. He was often very distracted and once when he didn't lock his computer I saw most of his work time was spent on a messed up custody battle with his (ex?)wife.

He was also quite the coward so he'd send me as a sacrificial lamb to very contentious situations to see how much I'd get beaten up before he got involved. He is the most pathetic manager I have ever worked for and when we had meeting showdowns when female managers would try and pin their team's non-performance on me - not only did he do nothing he rebuked me when I defended myself expecting me to take it as junior staff and make his life easier.

It all came to a head when after many of these situations I told him I would never ever assume responsibility for something I didn't do which he didn't like. This was after I'd repeatedly protected him with clients when he'd gone AWOL so I pushed for a transfer to get away from him.

I hate weak managers and I will never work for someone that takes the title and the money and doesn't step up and do the job.

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