Tell me about your annoying bosses

[Redhothoochycoocher]

I've just started a new job and my boss is winding me up so much I'm already job hunting again. Is it possible to get the ick with someone you're not even romantically involved because I'm fairly sure that's what's happened. Everything he does pisses me off.

1. Talks constantly while I'm trying to work, distracting me as I'm learning new systems.
2. Mansplains everything. Today I was 'taught' that if you cook onions for a long time they become sweet. It's incessant.
3. Tells me and anyone who will listen far far too much about his personal life, lots of detail that I don't need to know about his ex.
4. He strikes me as someone who didn't do well in school academically and is self-taught but now he shows off about what he knows (like cooking onions). Today he explained how he'd done a very simple calculation as though it wouldn't have been clear to me.

There's more but it would become outing if I went into too much detail. Anyway, please share some annoying boss stories to distract me from my own!

Oh and forgot a key one! Flicks his eyes down to my chest when we're talking. 🤮

Bump! He can't be the only one 😭

Yeah I had a job 12 years ago, I was very well qualified for it, knew exactly what I was doing.

My line manager micro managed everything I did. I had a way of organising myself that has always worked for me - a way of doing a todo list on paper, I’m dyslexic and I was taught it in school. She refused to let me do it, and created a new typed up todo list tgat I had to print out and update daily, with daily tasks at top and do by end of week at bottom. I then had to update it on the computer and reprint it. It created three times as much work and was totally unmanageable, especially as she would go in and edit it without me knowing. She micromanaged everything like I was thick. I then got told off for being 1 minute late because my train was cancelled.

I found another job fast.

My second manager would deliberately give me tasks that she knew would result in upsets with others then deny she ever told me to do them. Sent me on errands then accuse me of taking too long although I was quicker than everyone else.

Said I worked too quickly and showed everyone up. Told me everyone hated me (this was definitely not true, I got along well with nearly everyone and made the most of an awful situation). She was an outright bully and I don’t know why she hired me.

The only good thing she ever did was suggest I apply for a role in another part of the business which I did, was successful and it put me on the path to my current life and career. I stopped by once to thank her for pushing me to the new role. She stayed in her miserable job until she died a few years later.

My last boss before I retired early was the laziest man I have ever known. He would expect us to sort out work for absent colleagues first thing in the morning. That was not our responsibility and he was given time to be able to do that, we weren't. I went in early to prepare for teaching, not to sort his admin. He would steal resources from your classroom that you had created and pass them off as his own. The office staff got wise to this and would check with us if material was his or not. He prepared no lessons and everything was off the cuff. It backfired spectacularly when Hmie were in the department. He didn't do the work of managing behaviour which he was paid to, so referrals weren't dealt with. This had a big impact on behaviour in class as pupils didn't see consequences. He talked about colleagues to others, including health related information. He was lucky no-one complained. He used staff to plan inset days as he was too lazy to think of it himself. He used staff to do the timetable for the department. While this sounds like an opportunity for staff, he didn't check it. One year the worst teacher in the department gave herself all the best classes. He let it stand. His classroom was chaotic and messy. He couldn't find anything. All the procedures the previous bosses had put into place were discarded with nothing replacing them. He was the meanest man I have ever encountered too. He would steal milk from the fridge, sandwiches vanished, he never contributed to staff lunches and never gave staff a Christmas card let alone a small gift which was customary and he knew was customary. He would steal staff's personal mugs and they would be found lurking in his classroom thick with mould. He was indiscreet and would say things in the staff base about interview candidates which broke protocol. I could go on all day. After his first year I complained and my fingers were rapped for not supporting him.

I has a manager who would alter a report that you'd done by adding or removing a few words and then claim part, or whole authorship.
She also had an imaginary fiance, with great and intricate detail about their lives together, but absolutely didn't exist.