Society & Culture Terrible boss stories

[Duritz]

A squirt of the chef's own sauce, eh?

The not so secret sauce, it would seem!

 

[Duritz]

when i was a chef i would usually cook a few meals on my days off and freeze them down. Things like coq au vin, curries, pies, lasagnes,lamb shanks etc just so i could have something nice to eat after work. I still do it these days even though i'm not working in kitchens, as with a 4 year old and a wife expecting twins i am quite time poor. I always do a slow roast once a week(pork belly,chicken,lamb shoulder).
I love making desserts. Having a little boy i spoil him by making real ice cream, brownies,brulees etc on my days off.
Tonight we are having home made gnochhi(just finished making)with a beef cheek ragout( i froze down ragout from sunday).

Do you live near me? If no, are you up for moving?

 

[Duritz]

I had to sack a chef who stuffed a waitress and then brought her knickers to work to show off to the other chefs

You sacked him? After he sacked her?















I'll see myself out.

 

[Perth gal]

I had to sack a chef who stuffed a waitress and then brought her knickers to work to show off to the other chefs

How old was he? 16?

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

How old was he? 16?

in his 30s and married

 

[Perth gal]

in his 30s and married

Pathetic.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

This thread sounds like that movie 'Waiting'

 

[Carl Hooper]

tl;dr Pretty boring story tbh, I just wasted 10 minutes writing it.

I was gonna write a story then thought about this lmao

 

[the_interloper]

I worked at a pub with a ****wit as my first boss. He went on holidays for 2 weeks once and left a list of rules, one was "if someone dies be thankful it wasn't you and come to work anyway", no shit.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

This thread sounds like that movie 'Waiting'

Mad af movie

 

[Shell]

I worked at a pub with a ******* as my first boss. He went on holidays for 2 weeks once and left a list of rules, one was "if someone dies be thankful it wasn't you and come to work anyway", no shit.

 

[Shell]

Can you please list all the other rules pls.

 

[the_interloper]

Can you please list all the other rules pls.

I can't remember the rest, was stuff about not calling in sick, no bludging, no swapping shifts, that's the only one i remember though.

Dude was ****ing weird, my ex came through the drive through bottle o one night (that's where I worked) when I wasn't on with a group of her mates. One of them gets out to get some drinks and he jumps in the car, shuts the door and says "righto girls, where are we going?"

 

[Mofra]

I once got yelled at to "hurry up and stop bleeding".
Military life was "fun".

 

[craigos]

I forgot about another one, started a new job and the person I was replacing was a full blown alcoholic. They were "sacked" but because they had been with the company so long had been give the task of training the new person as a goodwill gesture (I guess). Anyways I had been there Wednesday and Thursday and Drunky McDrunk would roll in an hour late stinking of booze and cigarettes where he would not really show me much and just bitch and wine about everyone within the company, especially the "bitch who got me fired".

Friday comes around and the boss meets with me and proceeds to tell me I'm going to have to start being more productive and that if I wanted to be successful within the company would have to increase my work output substantially. I was a little taken back and didn't really say much other than it was hard because Drunky wasn't making a great deal of sense and was always late to which he replied that if that's the case I ought to show a bit more initiative to get things done.

I go home Friday, crack a couple of beers and send him an email saying it's not going to work. Outlining the reasons and stating that I felt that if that's the level of support I received in the beginning when I was new, I had little optimism for the future. Also dropped in that for the next person they hire it would probably be a bit more professional to get someone sober, punctual and intelligent to train a new employee if you wanted to avoid this situation again. I tell him to feel free to call me if he wanted to discuss further.

He called me on the Monday and said "he didn't think I had it in me from the beginning and that I might want to look at my work ethic if I wanted to hold down a full-time job in the future" (subtle brag but my work ethic is unquestionable). The job was advertised probably another 3 times and last I heard was that Drunky McDrunk had been given another chance to change his ways

 

[Plugger35]

I forgot about another one, started a new job and the person I was replacing was a full blown alcoholic. They were "sacked" but because they had been with the company so long had been give the task of training the new person as a goodwill gesture (I guess). Anyways I had been there Wednesday and Thursday and Drunky McDrunk would roll in an hour late stinking of booze and cigarettes where he would not really show me much and just bitch and wine about everyone within the company, especially the "bitch who got me fired".

Friday comes around and the boss meets with me and proceeds to tell me I'm going to have to start being more productive and that if I wanted to be successful within the company would have to increase my work output substantially. I was a little taken back and didn't really say much other than it was hard because Drunky wasn't making a great deal of sense and was always late to which he replied that if that's the case I ought to show a bit more initiative to get things done.

I go home Friday, crack a couple of beers and send him an email saying it's not going to work. Outlining the reasons and stating that I felt that if that's the level of support I received in the beginning when I was new, I had little optimism for the future. Also dropped in that for the next person they hire it would probably be a bit more professional to get someone sober, punctual and intelligent to train a new employee if you wanted to avoid this situation again. I tell him to feel free to call me if he wanted to discuss further.

He called me on the Monday and said "he didn't think I had it in me from the beginning and that I might want to look at my work ethic if I wanted to hold down a full-time job in the future" (subtle brag but my work ethic is unquestionable). The job was advertised probably another 3 times and last I heard was that Drunky McDrunk had been given another chance to change his ways

So this job was chief football writer for the Herald Sun?

 

[Sinjin Smith]

I once got yelled at to "hurry up and stop bleeding".
Military life was "fun".

 

[Nothing]

where he would not really show me much and just bitch and wine about everyone within the company, especially the "bitch who got me fired".

What else would a drunk do?

 

[revival_mode]

Not so much a terrible boss but a terrible workplace in general. In between finishing high school and starting uni my old man ever so thoughtfully organised a job for me at the local abattoir for 6 weeks or so paying a miserly $7 an hour (2008). It was morning shift so 6am-2pm every day Monday-Friday with one hour travel time each way.

My job was to stand pack the meat into boxes and put the boxes in a big pile to be collected at the end of the day. The cows would come in on an endless stream of hooks and they would be taken off and cuts into slabs of mean by a team of 6-8 guys who would cut meat to spec. All while standing in a cool room that hovered at about 2 degrees. If you wanted a day off you simply didn't turn up. If you'd worked there for some time and were at the top of the pecking order you could earn $17 an hour.

You got two 10 minutes breaks and one half hour break per shift which were like clockwork. On breaks the guys would talk about how much they love their job and how they wished they could do it elsewhere in places such as QLD or do it at night. Towards the end of my 6 weeks they offered to teach me how to start deboning and cutting meat if I wanted to stay on long term. I politely declined.

Apart from the pay what is was so terrible about it? I understand it would be a bit boring... but other it doesn't sound too bad especially for a short term

 

[IKnowtheDog]

So this job was chief football writer for the Herald Sun?

and I thought I knew Mike Sheahan

I forgot about another one, started a new job and the person I was replacing was a full blown alcoholic. They were "sacked" but because they had been with the company so long had been give the task of training the new person as a goodwill gesture (I guess). Anyways I had been there Wednesday and Thursday and Drunky McDrunk would roll in an hour late stinking of booze and cigarettes where he would not really show me much and just bitch and wine about everyone within the company, especially the "bitch who got me fired".

Friday comes around and the boss meets with me and proceeds to tell me I'm going to have to start being more productive and that if I wanted to be successful within the company would have to increase my work output substantially. I was a little taken back and didn't really say much other than it was hard because Drunky wasn't making a great deal of sense and was always late to which he replied that if that's the case I ought to show a bit more initiative to get things done.

I go home Friday, crack a couple of beers and send him an email saying it's not going to work. Outlining the reasons and stating that I felt that if that's the level of support I received in the beginning when I was new, I had little optimism for the future. Also dropped in that for the next person they hire it would probably be a bit more professional to get someone sober, punctual and intelligent to train a new employee if you wanted to avoid this situation again. I tell him to feel free to call me if he wanted to discuss further.

He called me on the Monday and said "he didn't think I had it in me from the beginning and that I might want to look at my work ethic if I wanted to hold down a full-time job in the future" (subtle brag but my work ethic is unquestionable). The job was advertised probably another 3 times and last I heard was that Drunky McDrunk had been given another chance to change his ways

That guy should seriously run for Parliament! I've got the perfect Rubber Button for him too!!

 

[Michaels]

My story isn't as good as others posted on here, but I'll share it anyway.

Was working as an Assistant Manager at a retail store that was franchise owned by a greek bloke and his brother. they owned about 5 stores and were just complete assholes and had no idea about people management or how to run the shop.

He would come in maybe once a fortnight and completley change how the stock was stored and sorted out the back making it difficult for everyone to serve customers quickly and effectively so I would express my thoughts on this and we clashed a bit because of it.

anway, despite working in a shopping centre he requested that everyone had their lunch out the back so we could stop and serve customers if it got busy, we were allowed to go to the food court to get something but then had to come back. none of us were obviously happy with this.

to make it seem like a fairer deal he had supplied us a George Foreman grill, and a toaster which we could all use. So one day myself and another staff member decided to cook some sausages on the grill, it was a sunday afternoon and pretty quiet.

not going to lie, the smell of sausages did leave the back room and went through the store and probably into the main walkway of the shopping centre, but we thought nothing of it.

next morning he comes marching in, sits me down and just starts unleashing on me about how there was the smell of sausages, the shopping centre threatened to remove his store from the centre (which was bullshit, i called his bluff and spoke to the centre and that never happened) etc. So im just sitting there copping this abuse, and he finishes with 'you know what, you're fired'. i kept asking him what had i been fired for exactly? no warnings were ever given, and the only thing im guilty of is following your shit rules and using the devices you provided.

to make things worse the other guy who was working with me wasnt fired (i didnt want him to be fired, great guy).

he couldnt give me an answer and told me to leave. i told him you will be hearing from fair work. contacted them and they contacted him, he shit bricks and offered me an extra 4 weeks pay to drop it. being 19-20 years old i took the money.

tl ; dr got fired for cooking sausages on a george foreman grill provided by the franchise owner.

 

[The Lemon]

****ing greeks.

as with woolies...you get plenty of campaigner managers.

One was just a malignant campaigner. Would pick on me for no reason and just made life very hard. Was worried i would be sacked and lose my LSL so i quit. Typical Richmond fan. I hope he is dead.

 

[ash_1050]

Apart from the pay what is was so terrible about it? I understand it would be a bit boring... but other it doesn't sound too bad especially for a short term

Waking up at 4am and getting home at 3am makes it difficult to have a social life and standing in a cool room that's hovering just above zero for 8 hours a day is no fun at all. The only upside is moving 20kg boxes around all day was a great workout.

 

[Run n Spread]

Give anyone a smidgen of power and you see their true selves. Sadly most people are comeplete and utter **** wits who want to lord it over others. The saying power corrupts didn't come from no where.

One boss. I was fired because I didn't smile enough. Serious. Union all the way from here on in.

 

[Scotland]

I don't think I've ever really had a 'bad' boss. Most of the bad bosses I've had have either been a bit unlikable and/or a bit hopeless rather than overly aggressive or demanding or wanting to touch me up in the stock room or anything.

Had one supermarket store manager who seemed to thrive on riding people hard and bullying the teenagers that worked there but since it was only a part time job and I was on to his MO pretty quickly it didn't bother me all that much. I was one of the better workers there and I think he realised that I could do a lot more in a shift than most people so giving me more work than I could do and trying to put pressure on me was pointless, and I didn't react anyway.

The only 'bad' bosses I've had in real jobs are those that have been career limiting.