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

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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

I used to work for a big investment bank on a trading floor. When I started, my boss’s boss said to me that there were two types of women who worked there. Cock suckers and ball breakers. He said if I was the first he would be very pleased to make sure I went far in the company.

Fortunately my boss (female) was awesome. I was initially taken on as a temp. Whilst still a temp I had a huge and unexpected bereavement. She gave me as much time off as I needed, all fully paid. She helped me come back to work gradually and arranged bereavement counselling through the company for me. She fast tracked my permanent role during this time as she thought the stability might help me. A year later she remembered the anniversary and took me out for a boozy lunch. Throughout my time there she pushed and developed my career and put me forward for huge opportunities. It wasn’t just me it was our whole team. Such a legend!

I had an area manager tell me that if she had been doing my interview for the job I'd been doing for almost 3 years, I wouldn't have got it because 'I wasn't the face the company wanted'. i didn't retort, because I didn't have a new job to go to at that point, but I wanted to ask if the face they wanted was a wee Glega' keelie with dyed black hair and a perma-tan! However, karma was looking out for me, because a few months after I left, her store closed and a completely new one was being opened and she had to apply for her own job. Which she didn't get...

I found I could bear her misfortune with a great deal of fortitude...

One boss told me my Scots husband had to be an alcoholic, called her Irish PA a potato person in public and told the Secretary that her Ghanaian boyfriend was the wrong colour. Loads of screamed abuse. She sacks me saying that everyone hated me. I threatened the nasty hag with a tribunal and screwed money out of her before laughing in her face. Dumped her post book in the bin to fuck her off too. Evil fucking bitch, her own child hates her.

Disgrace that's disgusting! I'm so shocked at some of these! I'm surprised you kept your temper.

PSB: that was haulage for you in the 90s. There was a horrific murder a while back when an HGV driver killed his employer over short wages. I can't condone it, but I can imagine the working conditions and thought processes that led him to think that it was the right response. These days, I work for the biggest transport firm on the planet. They don't do that crap.

Glad to hear it. I can understand why such conditions would drive someone to murder.

That I was making too many mistakes and not accurate enough, but then when I asked to see them so I could learn from them they had miraculously disappeared. I knew I was doing a good job and had streamlined lots of processes, did more than was asked of me, but I was afraid I would lose my job and become homeless (dh was very ill and not working at the time so we lived off my tiny salary). The stress was overwhelming.
I moved teams and changed roles over a year ago and I'm so much happier. Currently on mat leave and they are training the third person that's been in my old job and apparently my old boss is always saying mummycuddles had a quicker/better way of doing this so I can't have been that bad!

i stupidly, regrettably, slept with my boss at 16/17 and the day after he freaked out and told me not to say anything because he could get in trouble.

Turns out he was more scared about sleeping with someone below the age of consent, which he thought was 18.....

Not the fact he was married or anything....

That I have big eyes and nothing going on behind them.

This was part of a long period of bullying for which he received a slap on the wrists. He had the cheek to burst into crocodile tears in the HR meeting because he felt "so bad" about how he had treated me.

Hopefully karma is real.

A boss suggested I lap dance in my spare time to earn extra cash. Another told me that I would have made a good bar maid.

when i worked for the NHS, i was asked if my bleached blonde hair was the same 'down below'.....by a patient!

I also ended up having a very extremely premature baby , my boss asked me when I was coming back to work, less than a fortnight later and my baby was still in intensive care ...

I never went back

@LadyOfTheCanyon omfg my ex-boss used to say the exact same things ;)

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Was his name Paul?

After having my drink spiked on a work night out whilst working as bar staff when at uni. My manager's response to me reporting it happening in his club where I worked,'I'd kill for some free drugs you lucky girl'.

The fact i found the whole experience terrifying, couldn't remember big chucks of the night and only knew nothing worse had happened because my mate took me home as soon as she twigged what had happened seemed to go right over his head.

Went straight home, didn't finish my shift and never went back.

@LadyOfTheCanyon nope but that's scary as it means there's more of them around.

I was at college, had to do waitressing in college restaurant. Head tutor pulled me aside and said I had BO! I was mortified. I showered that morning but through stress and my blouse to tight these things happen. Mind you I wouldn’t like my waitress serving me to smell. He was just being truthful I suppose. Was embarrassed.
The same year on work placement my boss at a restaurant used to hold the door for me and I would walk forward, he used to put his hand on my bottom. It was awful, I used to dread going in. I was only 18. 25 years ago. If it happened now he wouldn’t have an arm!!

I was temping at a London office for a railway company. Female director told me I wasn’t suited to City life and I should go back to my hometown and be a nurse like I was doing before. Apparently I was too weak and feeble to hack life at the HQ of a (crappy) train company. Think it was SW Trains from memory so one of the worst ones!

My next job was a perm role in financial services as a PA and when I told her I was leaving for the job she slammed her office door in my face. I ended up as an executive assistant to the CIO of a bank. I got on very well there and enjoyed it.

Was sat at my desk typing as an 18 yr old junior, male boss stood behind me and said "I bet you'd take on all comers, wouldn't you?", whilst attempting to grope me from behind. Tried reporting him but union rep just told me that it would be a waste of time as he has been like it for years. I left. Fucker - it still has the power to upset me/make me angry nearly 30 yrs later.