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

[Lorddenning1]

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.

@babouchette

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.

I had almost exactly the same. I was Head of Comms for a regional organisation with responsibility for single-handedly organising large events. I’d booked AV support for an event with around 200 delegates, only for the AV to fail and there not to be any support as we’d booked/paid for. I was bellowed at publicly by the Commercial Director to “f***g sort it out” in front of several high profile delegates. On another occasion, given a dressing down by same wanky director in front of the entire office on Monday morning for not recording an interview on BBC Breakfast at 7:30am on a Saturday morning - that I hadn’t been informed was happening. I was “made redundant” a few months later, and had to train my replacement before I left. Awful place to work.

[quote lhirault]@Stnoop pretty obvious who you're talking about! [/quote]
Yeah, I knew it was an easy Google for anyone interested, hence the name change before posting! Don't care about people knowing just didn't want to say the name of the person in the post as he googled his name often and tweeted/emailed abuse at people and I don't need or want that back in my life, but maybe not anymore with the most recent convictions.
Pretty cathartic to say all the shit that happened "out loud"

Worst manager I ever had was in retail job. I was assistant manager. Some of their memorable bullying tactics included;

Kept a diary of all my alleged wrong doings but never actually discussed them with me. I discovered it when she left accidentally it open on the desk. Full of comments about me not making her tea the way she liked it, not being able to tape up a box correctly, the way I talked to customers was wrong etc etc

Managed to rota my days off so that they were 2 weeks apart. Eg I would work 14 days in a row

Refused to let me go to an emergency docs appointment when I had a (as it transpired) kidney infection and was passing blood in urine

Managed to put me down to work Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day whilst she had each of them off

Wouldn't talk to me or would be very off hand when I got into work but would be perfectly lovely to other staff members

Refused to authorise my holiday request just in case it clashed with the imminent birth of her new niece/nephew. Refused to even discuss when would be a convenient time for me to book leave

I did stand up for myself in the end and got my own back when she left the shop to go and manage another branch...as assistant manager it was up to me to organise a leaving card/present. I did fuck all and still remember her hovering by the door looking hopeful and me just waving goodbye and walking off.

I messaged my boss on Christmas Eve to advise her that I had received late notification of a potential negligence claim. I had dealt with everything, notified insurers, but didn’t want to not advise my boss. I was very hurt when she told me she couldn’t do anything as she was already broken up for Christmas, as I only worked Christmas Eve after being advised of the claim at 5.10 on the 23rd. I was supposed to be off on Christmas Eve too, but worked 6 hours so she didn’t need to.

She has one grown up child, I have 3 one of whom is still at primary.

The reason she couldn’t do anything? Her husband is unhappy about her working extra hours. But I seem t9work longer hours and she is definitely paid more than me.

Mine told me she , 'didn't keep a dog and bark herself' when l merely asked her if she had fed one of the babies in our care . We worked on a childrens ward together , she was a staff nurse grade 6 l was a staff nurse grade 5 ,everyone helped to feed the babies, l was just checking with her before l went to feed the baby myself.

@StormBaby

Not my job now, but when my mum passed away in the very early hours I sent my boss a text at about 7.30am to let her know(my mum had been terminal for a couple of weeks). Her response was “so are you coming in today or what?” I just couldn’t work for her after that and I left a month or so later.

Nowhere in that league, and I haven't quit my job, but in September I fell from my bike on and badly fractured my shoulder. I had both my personal and work phones on me but my personal phone was closer. I only had one colleagues contact number on it after giving it to her about a pre covid Christmas night out, so rang her, told her what was happening and asked her to let our manager aware. Later I sent a text and confirmed the shoulder was badly broken. She responded by asking if I was in the next day. I reminded her it was my shoulder that was badly broken, not a false nail, and no, I wasn't going to be in for the foreseeable.

One of my bosses asked me to find out how to fire someone because they were off work sick. The man had taken a weeks holiday to have cancer related surgery and needed a few extra days to recover than anticipated, the boss thought he’d ‘done it on purpose’ to get time off.

I let him know and we both sued and won for discrimination - them disability and maternity for me. She stupidly sent the request to fire him to me and let me know she wouldn’t have hired me if she’d known I was pregnant by email.

@Daffodil21

It was my fourth pregnancy after three miscarriages. My boss knew this and asked me to go on a building site every two weeks until maternity leave, during a pandemic + heavily pregnant for the first time ever for site inspections. I told him I want happy, he actively disagreed, so I resigned because my pregnancy was the most important thing.

Sounds like constructive dismissal.

@Shoobydooer even though it's over 30 years ago I will never forget the expression on her face, a sort of cold smirk and dead eyes - truly chilling in fact.

@lyndasnellsniff

I love your payback to your evil 😈 boss. I can just imagine her anticipation of what you all ot her as a going away gift. Sfa..

Some of these are shocking and appalling

Screamed at me when I tried to explain that she had asked me to take course of action A, not course of action B, as she was insisting. I mean really shrieked. I had an email from her saying 'take course of action A' but there was no point in me telling her so. Also - by this time she was working out her notice - insisted that I ignore the specific instruction of someone very senior and yelled at me when I said I didn't see how I could ignore what this person had asked me to do. She lasted about eight months in the job and it was obvious she just objected to having someone with a disability in her team.

There's nothing worse than an incompetent in a middle-management job.

During the first covid wave I got pulled from my regular work area to a covid ward. On the first day I arrived to find I was in charge of 17 patients, with a newly qualified nurse, 1 HCA that knew the ward and two agency HCA's. When expressed concern I was told "you're a registered nurse so get on with it".

I have never been so close to handing my notice in.

I should say, I haven't worked on a ward in YEARS prior to that. And never will again

I was listening to stories today about what our boss has done in the past.

A young colleague was phoned to say her DP had fallen down the stairs carrying their baby. Baby was being taken in an ambulance to hospital.

Our Boss wouldn't let her go and the poor girl actually stayed. In tears. All because she was a new mum terrified of losing her income,

I had been working really hard on a project well above my pay grade, working till the early hours at home, working on holiday etc and my director was really rude to me about a complex part that even industry experts couldn't agree about (implementing a v complex regulation), I went home that night and updated my calendar and applied for and got a job on higher pay at a bigger company.

I worked in a cafe when I was 16. There other woman there was older and she was in charge, but she left me to do everything, while she sat and chatted to her friends. I washed up, cooked and served food, cleared tables - everything. On day 3 I was outside wiping the tables and I thought bollocks to this, so I put the cloth down and went home, never to return!

I had 2 experiences:

1. temping in a telecom office....nothing to do...manager used to hold seances, ouija board, rune stones ...all that stuff to kill time...i didnt participate....many did....

1. new manager at college...sent me to teach newly released teens from juvenile bail hostel !!....she knew they could be violent etc...put us in a room at top of building with no panic button....of course they wrecked the room and she tried to discipline me for running out to get the security....her attempt failed...she was a nasty evil bitch...she left a few years later....how awful to be such a nasty twisted woman....thats how i think of her now....at the time i just wanted to kill her..!!

Sang at me to be happy when i told her I was having a miscarriage, then refused to let me go home early because she wanted to leave early, so I had to sit at work having a miscarriage. I would never do it now but I was young and inexperienced. I didnt have to leave though, she did 3 months later, she left before she was sacked for being such a bad manager

I was 15, in my first part-time job in a newsagents.

New area manager visited and sent me to Boots to buy lipstick as she'd run out. Couldn't tell me which shade, just that it 'looked like this colour'. I got the wrong one and she screamed at me.

She told me I was taking too long to fill up the crisps. I was pulling them forward and putting the new ones at the back, but apparently I should just have been stuffing them in at the front. She grabbed them off me to demonstrate..... in front of customers.

I left very soon after that.

Told me they didn't want any part time staff working there. I was a part timer

When I told him that my husband (who worked in the same building) had terminal cancer, my manager said "If you want something to take your mind off it, you can have all the overtime you want."

Worked in a pub with a narcissistic boss, the guy was an arsehole! He went off on holiday so we had to do a stock take hand over, I found 2 empty barrels of beer that he had said were full, so when it was time to hand back I'd be 2 barrels down! That would have been a disciplinary for me! I left the 2 barrels there so they went back in to his stock and he couldn't say anything because it was the area manager doing the stock take I put full barrels on top of the 2 empty ones

Also whilst he was away we actually hit our target for the week by Friday afternoon and still had a big football Saturday to go! It was great, the team were buzzing, the area manager got me a bottle of champagne which my boss said 'you know she just took that from another pub dont you?' As he was so mad that I'd done so well whilst he was away!!

I had a promotion to another pub and he ruined that pub, still upsets me to think how he ran in to the ground. I heard the company sent in an independent stocktaker came in and they found 5 bottles of water instead of vodka and the manager blamed one of the team leaders who was about 19 years old!!

He was an awful man who fooled a lot of people in to thinking he was great!!

@SomethingSuss this is really bad, poor women.

“I’ve just had a call to say that mum has cancer and will be going into hospital in a few days for surgery. I’m going to have to go home…”
“Have you got any holidays left?” (And not in the ‘don’t worry if you don’t’ type of way).