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What is the worst thing ever said to you by a boss?

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Chocywockydodahhhhhh · 27/03/2018 12:53

So many posts on here about bad bosses I was just wondering mine would be
I had a miscarriage on the Sunday and came into work on the Sunday and managed to get through. By Tuesday afternoon I was bleeding through my pads, pants and onto the chair and I was in a lot of pain so went home. I was off two days and when I got back my boss didn’t ask how I was or how I was coping and instead said
“why couldn’t you have worn a thicker pad and not gone home, we had some in the cuboard, you could have put two together”

Bitch

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Duckswaddle · 27/03/2018 15:54

Both of mine was were from female bosses; one that said I was basically shit at my job (fuck off, no idea what I did); the other told me that my boobs were looking too low and that I "might want to do something about that". I was pregnant and wearing non underwired comfy bras.
I got a better job Smile

Schnauzermum2 · 27/03/2018 16:04

Your baby might die (as to why I had no card/collection when going on mat leave) last parting message after bullying all through pregnancy. Found out the bitch had been sacked whilst I was in hospital

ohcheeseandrice · 27/03/2018 16:08

At 14 working a waitress job my boss asked me if I was wearing a push up bra because my tits looked much bigger. He also asked the next week if I was still a virgin and winked after asking. He was 40. His wife was the chef in the next room.
I later found out that a few weeks after I left he beat his wife to a pulp and fled the country, wiping out her accounts and leaving her with nothing.

Regularly groped at a retail job, I was 17.

I worked at a very physical job, lots of heavy lifting so when I was about 8 weeks pregnant I told my manager just so they were aware and so the could do a risk assessment. His reply 'well it's still early days, you still loose it yet'

Curlygirly · 27/03/2018 16:09

usertwo that sounds like my 1st boss. She told me not to wear leggings as they don't suit me. I was size 10.
Also she said to another girl " shame you're fat as you've got such a pretty face!"

MereDintofPandiculation · 27/03/2018 16:28

DH headed another team with same company. Boss regularly called his managers together, inc me, and would always spend some time slagging off DH and his work, knowing that I couldn't defend DH without looking as if I was dragging private life into work.

Same piece of shit wouldn't allow compassionate leave when DS4 was in hospital for 2 weeks.

PrettyWisdomous · 27/03/2018 16:41

This thread is horrible Sad

milliesmaller · 27/03/2018 16:42

cloudchasing- I sure hope you left the next day Shock

milliesmaller · 27/03/2018 16:44

She complained I dressed better than her! (all the time).
I left shortly after.

GreenRut · 27/03/2018 16:45

My first boss, on resigning and finding out I'd applied for her job, told me really patronisingly that she supported me applying but id never be anything more than an envelope stuffer. I remember how much it stung at the time. Less so now that I'm far more successful in my career than she is Wink

ballerini · 27/03/2018 16:49

Some of these are shocking!
I was told by a previous boss that I almost caused a man to be arrested! The man was a customer who got really angry as he had missed his appointment and it took me a few minutes to find the appointment since it was earlier that day and there were a lot of lists to check.

Ppbleedingwoes · 27/03/2018 16:51

My first job at 16, my 50 year old boss presented me with a wrapped up present on valentine’s day - it was a sex toy with a note that said ‘you’ve been promoted’ The worst part was his wife worked in the same building In a different department and I knew her!

iklboo · 27/03/2018 16:55

Team building event - you know the one where you've got a list of items and you have to prioritise them. Two full teams so around 40-50 people. She said - smirking:

'Easy. I'd take the gun & shoot iklboo. There's so much of her to go round nobody would be hungry for weeks'.

Snorkpod · 27/03/2018 16:58

I don't act like someone with hearing loss.

Also that I couldn't work with soneone else with a visible disability because it would make people think the org only employed disabled people which would undermine it's credability!

I didn't know this had been said until I'd already left and ET'd their ass over another issue othetwise I would have bought a discrimination claim.

Idreamofpizza · 27/03/2018 17:07

I was told at an annual appraisal a very long time ago that some people are race horses and will get promoted quickly to better things but that unfortunately I was a cart horse.

FauxFox · 27/03/2018 17:11

Client entertainment day with two of my clients (women who had a couple of hours train journey home and families to get home to) and two who were young single men from the same city we were in. My boss was enjoying the day immensely and decided to offer an impromptu extension after the scheduled 6pm finish (had been out all day) The men were up for it, the women were not but he was putting them in an awkward position as it was an everyone or no-one type of thing so I said that we should go back as arranged. Boss said loudly in front of all my clients "Well you'll do as I say because I pay you! Ha ha ha"

I sorted out my CV and started applying for jobs the next day. Twat.

TollgateDebs · 27/03/2018 17:18

I had a manager that refused to look you in the eye and had no interaction with anyone (civil service). He failed on every level, but was bullet proof at his grade. My Mum was very ill (phone call) and I said I had to go home that moment, to which he reacted very badly and asked why I couldn't finish my work first! The work was not time dependent and I simply turned my back and walked out. My Mum died that night. I can't tell you what I called him!

jobbymcginty · 27/03/2018 17:19

My boss new I was having a threaten mmc and it happened at night when I was in shift. When I spoke to her the next day saying I wouldn't be in she said for god sake what now.im never off and felt do worthless still do

InglouriousBasterd · 27/03/2018 17:22

He knew my housemate as I had taken over her job when she started uni.

He asked her what knickers I wore Hmm

Cantcarryonforever · 27/03/2018 17:38

My tattoos are disgusting (after asking to see them, they are all covered by clothes)

Referring to my makeup as 'all that shit on your face'

My degree is worthless (studying part time at night)

I'm too stupid to be a receptionist. (which offended both me AND our receptionist in one go Grin my job is not reception or admin)

All from my current boss who is an absolute joy to be around. Hmm

misscockerspaniel · 27/03/2018 17:40

Chocy That is dreadful Flowers. Not me, but to someone I worked with who also, sadly had just suffered a miscarriage. She was photocopying and staring out of the window, lost in thought. The bitch of a manager, who was aware of her circumsances, stood at her office door and shouted "Look everybody, she can't even photocopy properly".

ItsalmostSummer · 27/03/2018 17:43

Oh gosh when 17 and working as a junior in a secretary job, boss would have clients (friends) visiting and they were being waited on hand and foot by myself and other junior. Then boss amongst all his friends (clients) strategically drops pencils and tells us we have to bend over and pick them up. Yuck. So creepy. We were expected us to work weekends which was even more creepy - one on one with the boss.
Also he’d sit on the loo and do work and make phone calls whilst doing number 2s, and if another call came through for him we had to take the phone through to him (on the loo). So gross. Being young this was all part of the job. Nowdays Id say no way to all of above.

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/03/2018 17:51

These stories are horrid.

PompholyxOfUnknownOrigin · 27/03/2018 18:00

Disgusting behaviour from these bosses. Honestly, the ones who were treated so badly as 14/15/16/17 year-olds - why don’t you go back now, as grown up confident women and give them a right bollocking in front of their staff?

Samantha77hat · 27/03/2018 18:09

I took over a business that my predecessor had run into the ground, it was turning over £10m and losing £1.5m a year. It really was a hideous mess.

I covered her maternity leave and on return she became my boss of course.

In the time off I had done a deal to close all the bad accounts and go exclusive with one customer, with projected turnover of £6m making a profit of £600k. We were just at the point of presenting it to the customer's business formally having already been told by them it would go ahead

Boss couldn't make the meeting as she had some baby stuff to do so I was going, to which boss told me 'I am very uncomfortable with you going to that without me', breathtaking, probably because she knew it would be harder for her to take the credit for it

Silly cow got laid off a year later, despicable character

Namechangetempissue · 27/03/2018 18:12

Not said, but my ex boss did the dirty ON MY DESK and got caught on CCTV by his wife (sadly I saw the footage first). I had worked at my desk after that without cleaning it. Dirty fucker. Swear he did it on my desk on purpose, the perv.

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