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After my post yesterday about my boss ordering 30 or so counterfeit video games (from China, at 4 bucks a piece) to try and sell, I thought it would be fun to start a thread where everyone can relate stories of their stupid boss or stupid bosses in general. Any good ones out there?

My dad worked for an idiot once. He's a mechanic for large navy vessels and while he was working on an engine with another fellow their boss came by and started talking to the guys near the scissorlift. The guy with my dad yelled down that they needed to go lower to reach what they thought was wrong with the engine. Their boss said "What, you want to go higher!?" and proceeded to raise the scissorlift. Seeing as though they were close to the roof my dad wasn't going to put up with it and yelled "Cut it out you dumb f**k!" and threw a 5 pund wrench at the guy.

Ha. This was totally supposed to go in Off Topic, not here.

Yes, yes it was, but I posted here anyways.

Ask, and you shall receive.

I've had so many stupid bosses I don't know where to start. How about the one who hired a slowed kid, and I mean seriously mentally handicapped, and another who was from somewhere in southeast Asia and didn't speak a word of English and told me to have them both trained up by the end of the night. It was at Tippins, and I was the "head dishwasher', whatever that means, and it was a Friday night, our busiest night. I just sorta puttered around until finally we got critically backed up and cooks were yelling for plates to put food on and I just stared at them and smiled. I told my boss that the slowed kid was the new "head dishwasher" and walked out. Two days later, the boss overdosed on meth and went to the hospital. The new boss begged for me to come back, and I did, on the condition that the only foreigners they hired from then on were Mexicans, because I spoke a fair amount of Spanish back then.

About 5 years ago I needed to have a procedure done. I'll just say it involved my bowels. So part of the procedure is taking a cocktail of fluids that will clean you out more thoroughly then one could believe. I told my boss at the time that I would need to take the night off so that I could go home and have projectile diahrea. He questioned me on why I would need to go home when they have a bathroom here. I went through my usual mental resistance to throttle him within an inch of his life and explained to him what was going to happen.

I got the night off after that.

Everybody is an idiot from time to time, bosses included. The most annoying thing about my current boss is his incompetence. We can't get anything done because he is in stenographer mode instead of *doing* something.

Make sure your boss doesn't post here first though!

This silly girl learned that lesson the hard way.....

LuciusAR wrote:Make sure your boss doesn't post here first though!

This silly girl learned that lesson the hard way.....

Epic!!!! if its not made up!

My work hired a new kid to be the head of IT above everyone else that had been there for years. Hoping to impress, our new boss called his first meeting that included all the IT staff and head of management. He then proceeded to inform everyone of the direction he planned to take with our IT and gave special mention that he planned to upgrade all firewalls in every computer to reduce the risk of fires inside the machines.

Both him and the Management looked quite confused when the entire IT staff burst into laughter. One of us then informed our embarassed boss, exactly what a firewall does.

hellsguardian316 wrote:My work hired a new kid to be the head of IT above everyone else that had been there for years. Hoping to impress, our new boss called his first meeting that included all the IT staff and head of management. He then proceeded to inform everyone of the direction he planned to take with our IT and gave special mention that he planned to upgrade all firewalls in every computer to reduce the risk of fires inside the machines.

Both him and the Management looked quite confused when the entire IT staff burst into laughter. One of us then informed our embarassed boss, exactly what a firewall does.

That's priceless!!! Rarely is public humiliation so well-earned.

That is pretty good


Cant really complain about my CO though, he isnt too bad, allthough he does now and again have that "i am god" ego

I had a boss who canceled my requested time off at the last minute despite having approved it two months in advance. Also, he had forms written up which the janitorial staff had to sign every time we swept the floor, or cleaned a bathroom, or cleaned up a spill.

I work in the electronic department in retail. I have a nice little square with cash registers and I am surrounded on two sides by glass cases containing games.

A customer called me over to the accessories(cables, etc and is on the other side of one of the glass cases.) and was asking me questions. The HR person was shopping with her family and saw that I wasn't in my little square and called over the intercom for two other workers to come back there. I told her on my little walkie talkie that I was with a customer and in the accessory aisle. I was ignored over the walkie.

So when I was done I got yelled at for not being where I was supposed to be even though I was trying to help an elderly man pick out a gift for his grandson who loved his 360.
So I got yelled at for giving customer service because the stupid HR lady didn't bother to look in the next aisle for me.

I was called into work to cover for a person who was sick. I was hesitant, because it was my first day off in two weeks, but I came anyways. Well, before I got there, "somehow" [being the manager's stupid ass niece] the phone's ringer managed to "turn itself off".

Well, long story short, the owner was told [who was extremely pissed] that I had done it. So, I decided to take the next couple of days off, unapproved of course. I would have paid money to see her face that Saturday when the store didn't open.

I was one of 2 people who opened up on the weekends and the other had worked closing shifts from Mon-Fri. Thankfully, justice was served. The manager was fired. If I had my way, the reason for the firing would have been "competence of an epic scale".

Some companies reward seniority over competence. Mine is one of them.

I currently work for a HR professional in the maintenance division of a major US telecommunications provider. they have been in position for 4 years.

Today I have explained twice that a T1 (carries 24 voice lines) needs to have its T3 (carries 28 T1) fixed before their friends DSL (rides a voice line. PM for technology clarification if you must) can be up.

I expect to have to explain it one more time before it sinks in.