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I've just seen a thread about a twatty boss who was quibbling over a 1 minute discrepancy in a start time and it reminded me of the fucking ridiculous boss I used to have.

I work in film and television, so very casual dress code and people come as themselves and work very very long hours for no overtime. My boss at one particular place of work was a lunatic and wanted to micro manage everything and everyone. He would stand with a stop watch and time people arriving and then mark it on a chart that everyone could see and he would take the times and make a chart at the end of each month which he would talk everyone through i.e: "So Ollie, you were four minutes late on the first Wednesday but interestingly you were on time the following Wednesday..." and so on.

He then decided that staff should eat breakfast when they arrived at work so that he knew everyone had had a healthy meal and would be as productive as possible.... and for some insane reason, people humoured him and arrived fifteen minutes early with breakfast.
He would then police everyone's breakfast looking at the sugar content of cereals etc and finally set up a cereal bar of 'approved cereals'.

He then decided that even though the industry is notoriously not just casual dress, but often very individual dress, he wanted everyone to wear blue and only blue because this was 'smart'. I refused to do this and threatened to leave and was given dispensation to wear a few other colours because I was so senior. But the last straw was when his wife (who was head of HR) decided that people were wearing unsuitable shoes - again, film production - no clients, noone but ourselves - and created a WhatsApp group so that EVERYONE could text a picture of the shoes they were planning to wear that day so that she could SIGN THEM OFF.

There were about 45 people working there so people had to start sending pics from about 6am.

It was fucking mental. The shoe thing was the last straw and I left, but I still have a couple of friends there are there are new and even more ridiculous rules in place now.

Cant compare with that but my old boss once called me to find out where I was and why I was late, he got properly angry and told me my poor timekeeping was unacceptable and I wouldn't last much longer if I was going to be late a lot.
I'm meant to start at 8.30, he phoned at 8.33 and I had never been late before then. Thing is, I was in a meeting, that had started at 8.00, that he'd set up and was supposed to be in too. It ended up being my fault that he had missed the 8am meeting.

My old boss was properly chaotic, used to phone me to pick him up from various places he had ended up sleeping after a night out.

Don’t know why he couldn’t get a taxi or why I was the chosen one to collect him.

I didn’t really mind though as it meant he was generally nicer to me than the others because I had secrets.