What has your boss said or done that has made you want to quit your job

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Just been reading an article about this and it inspired me to start a a thread. What has your boss said or done that has made you want to quit on the spot.

Mine was to a colleague of mine, his apartment complex was on fire and it was spreading along to his row, he was evacuated and came into work to grab some things, we all knew what had happened and was all sad for him as he had children, my manager asked him to sort out her computer as he was our IT guy, he basically told her not right now he had bigger things to worry about and she stormed back into our office threw a stop, saying can you believe him, he is too busy to help and I bet he says it's because his flat is on fire. We all sat there like
Safe to say we didn't expect any compassion from her in regards to our personal life.

@PlanktonsComputerWife

My old supervisor (well... not really mine, as I was freelance, but anyway) wanted us to write the reasons why we were grateful to be working there. On the walls. Where the clients could see.

@PlanktonsComputerWife Wow. All the stories on this thread are terrible, but this is some next level, Lululemon-style bullshit. I hope this person didn't also try to send you on a "self improvement" course.

At a day nursery.

I was qualified but there were 3 people between me and the manager.

1 day I came in at lunchtime and was told by someone higher than me that an apprentice had fed a baby something they shouldn't. The baby was fine but they were just passing it on. A week later my boss bollocking me for not telling him, despite me not being there and two higher ups who were there and who was running the nursery being there/dealing with it and their responsibility to pass up the command chain.

There wasn’t one particular thing because there was numerous incidents/comments but being furloughed for several months made me realise my ex-boss was toxic and probably had a personality disorder. Next month I will be celebrating one year in my new job and I haven’t looked back.

@Detest

Expected me to cover her job for 6 months while she was on the sick, without extra pay, involving extra work, extra hours and supervision work. Then promoted one of the blokes I'd been supervising, and had disciplined for tardiness, over me. Handed my notice in the next day. She called me several times at my new job asking for help and advice on the systems she wasn't used to operating....

I hope you didn’t help her?

This happened to a colleague who was covering her own job and was asked to do extra work for another department which she was doing for no extra pay. Her husband was taken into hospital seriously ill and her manager wouldn’t give her time off. She handed her notice in.

When the department she was doing the extra work for heard about this they offered her a new job on a higher wage. Because it was within the same company her manager refused to accept her minimum notice period stating she had no one else to do her job. When her manager realised that she couldn’t make her stay she asked the new manager to write in the new job description that she had to be available to help out when the previous manager needed her.

Both my colleague and the new manager refused to help out.

I was about 8 weeks in my new job when young female colleague came out crying from the bosses office.

Comment from other (male) colleague: Oh, he makes everyone female cry eventually, that's just how he is!
Handed in my notice within a week!

We were talking an old manager we had had who left, loads of people didn't like him but l always got on well with him.
My current manager said "he wouldn't have let you have a week off just because your dad died"
I was so shocked l couldn't even respond.
It was the aggression she said it with that l remember 20 years later rather that the actual words.

I was granted permission to work from home one day every other week due to my epilepsy for two reasons. Firstly, tiredness exacerbates my condition and increases likelihood of time off sick due to seizures. Secondly, I can’t use public transport due to anxiety around having seizures on the bus and the fact I have to walk down a road in the dark (in winter) to access the bus and during a seizure once walked into the road and was almost hit by a car. Anyway, she kept trying to take away the day a week at home saying my job ‘couldn’t be done from home’. It took having a seizure at the office party to prove that I really did need that day. Cow bag.

*one day every week I should say.

God, I could write a book on mine.
But the FINAL straw was when she had been signed off for 3 months and I had covered the vast majority of her work, working an extra 2days over my contract ( unpaid but promised time off in leu).
On her return there was a catch up meeting with big boss who starts by saying that he would like to thank me for all my hard work.....
She stood up, slammed her hands on his desk and screeched that she was not thanking me for anything, she knows the rest of the team did the work ( they certainly didn't, they massively took the piss and all of them came and went as they felt like, leaving me in the shit and having to cover).
The thing is, big boss had introduced monitoring and not only had stamps of who completed which projects and when ,also on the main one we had worked together in his office as he took me onto the project as his direct report.
I just stood up and said to him I told you she would react like this to which she shouted, you are an Irish thick bitch.
Yup, I told him then and there that I was resigning.

The one who told me I had made loads of mistakes in my 1st week but could i work for them anyway at a reduced hourly rate!

Employer 1
I didn't know you were a dalek when I hired you - after disclosing disability that was preventing me from attending meetings upstairs in a different building that had no lift.

Employer 2
I can't see how you can possibly do this job in a wheelchair - when they declined my request for reasonable adjustments to prevent me from having to walk between multiple buildings across the day, I informed them I'd be transitioning in to using a wheelchair at work. A normal desk based office job that involved lots of meetings on a large site (think university campus style)

The list would be too long to detail here.

Told everyone I'm a bully after I reported one of her work besties to her for bullying the lovely guy we have who has Asperger's. Am currently trying to get out asap.

Very recently a colleague i job shared with would leave all the work incomplete (there would be piles left to do). She would undo everything I did, even tiny things. I couldn't complain as she had a close friendship with our manager. Turns out she wanted to drop hours and the only way to do that was to get me to leave. It worked.

I worked as a PA once. The guy was nice enough but not great to work for. He didn't give me a lot to do and he made me feel like everything I did was rubbish and the whole company was very toxic.
He had a big white board in his office and every week I used to write up the weeks calendar with mtgs, training events, etc. The last straw was One day I came into the office and he had rubbed it all out and written it again himself. He didn't like my handwriting.
I went straight to the employment agency at lunchtime,

My first job everyone was unhappy because the hours were long for crap pay, conditions bad and there were unrealistic expectations. I remember the manager calling a meeting saying basically they were fed up with having people come to them with (reasonable) gripes and if people didn't like it they should leave. So most people did, I did as well. They struggle to recruit now as they had such a high staff turnover that a lot of people know someone who has worked there and advises them not to.

One of my bosses likes to be Queen Bee and can be a real drama queen. We had a really difficult time in lockdown as she was working on something all encompassing and time consuming. She expected me to be there every hour of the day, hated us working from home, and my stomach used to plummet when I saw her name on my phone (it still does). I was regularly in tears because she was just so rude and DH was furious at one point and was all for ringing my firm to complain about her. The only thing keeping me same is that the rest of my team are lovely so that counter balances it, and I am going to retire later this year so there is light at the end of the tunnel!

I had a complete arsehole of a boss who was an absolute arse licker to anyone more senior but treated her team like shit on her shoe. We worked for a big investment bank and there was always some charity collection or other. One of the low paid admin staff (single mum) said they couldn't afford to give to x charity one month and she said to her in front of the whole team that she should be able to afford it as she had just had a payrise. I would have walked a lot sooner but it was during the credit crunch and nobody was hiring so I'd have been unemployed. God I hated that bitch.

That I hadn’t been put on a training course I desperately wanted to do, was in my development plan, and half of the team were doing, because I had been off sick and I needed to be doing my job as I’d been off so much. I’d taken 4 days off for a miscarriage the month before, and 3 weeks (instead of the recommended 6) for eye surgery. It was a one day course and there was cover available for me. I spent the training day packing boxes with clothing to send to employees. I work in HR and in no way did that task fall within my remit.

That I was too sensitive to do a particular role within HR. Thankfully my current employers disagreed and I’m now doing that role (for a lot more money and loving it).

Outing and I don’t care.

The eye surgery was several months before the miscarriage and I rushed back from both because I was worried about letting my team down by being off.

I was in a very toxic work environment.

I worked in a private nursery and the room leaders were incompetent and would join the rooms up and then leave to sit at the desk printing stuff out or just doing fake tasks.
The rest of the staff would have to juggle 3 different age groups joined up.
They were really sly as they would come back to help with lunch duties or when the manager was around but then leave again.

I had a break down at work when a baby fell and banged her head and they turned their backs so they wouldn't have to write the report and phone her mum. I wasnt even near the child but had to run to her and be the reporting staff member.

My manager left and one of the lazy room leaders took her place. Everyone knew she use to shirk the job so she would let the other room leaders get away with stuff.
When things started coming down on her head she would email us emails everyday even on weekends off loading her anxiety and making us feel like shit.

She would talk about her mental health and how we should look after ourselves but she was the one creating mental health issues for the team.

I handed my notice in before I even had another job and now I work for a nursery agency and cannot believe what I used to put up with. Now I feel appreciated and worth something and I've been to about 10 different nurseries and seen how they should be run.

A senior emailed me across a small shared office (about 7m x 10m shared with 4 others in the same team) to ask if I could book more patients into my diary. She had access to view my diary online and could see that all slots were full (slots that she’d devised based on my working hours). I worked 1/2 the amount of hours that she did yet I saw way more patients than she did in her allotted clinical time which was the same as my entire contracted hours.
Why she couldn’t have walked across the office to talk to me about it is beyond me. I called her over in the end to check that my diary was the same as she saw on her screen and ask exactly where she wanted me to book the patients into. She didn’t have an answer but said the waiting list was growing so more new patients needed to be seen. As the senior member of staff I left her figuring out how she wanted that to be achieved and happily handed in my notice soon after.
I loved that job but just couldn’t work happily with that person. When (if) she moves on I may well try to go back.

I worked for a company with a toxic culture of bullying and aggression. I stuck it out for two years.

One day I was at an internal presentation by one of the managing partners and the PowerPoint stopped working. He got very angry and publicly humiliated the teenage AV guy who was trying to fix it for him. "Oh take your time, I'm only the managing partner" etc.

I realised in that instant that if that was the kind of person in charge, I would never be able to have a fulfilling career there, and I quit soon afterwards.

Mine was when I stared a completely new role for the same place, (from checkout to cash office) I was training to replace a woman who was retiring, I had been on the job for 2 weeks, I was 19 at the time, and in all that time, she had made these comments to me
"Is that how you count money, can't you do it any quicker".....I'd never had a job that required to count large amounts of cash before, really didn't want to make any mistakes an miscount!!
"There's a penny missing, get down on the floor and have a look for it, don't get back up till you find it"...........this happened before my shift had started!!!!
"You took and 1 hour and 20 minutes to sort out the petrol station cash logs, it normally takes an hour, what were you doing for all that time??"........ that was the second time I'd ever done it, and I was only shown once the week before..
And the creme de la creme "had lunch with the store manager today, he asked me how my new staff member was getting on, I told him I didn't think she'd last long as she wasn't good enough yet"......
2 weeks!!!!! I'd been there 2 weeks!!!!!!!!! The day after she told me about her conversation with the store manager, my alarm didn't go off and I knew I'd be about 30 minutes late because of the bus time table. I decided to use that time instead to write my resignation letter and basically told her I was quitting because she was a bullying c**t and I felt sorry for anyone else who would have to work under her as she was also a complete bitch!!! I never once regretted shoving that under the personnel door