We all look for a real leader in our boss. The one who can have our backs, who motivates and inspires. It’s a person you can thoroughly trust, learn from, and grow together with professionally.

The truth is, in reality, exactly the opposite can happen. Our managers, bosses and supervisors can downright make our life a living hell. And having in mind that we spend 40 hours a week and 2,080 working hours a year with them, this is a huge lump of our life to spend in misery.

So below we wrapped up some blood-boiling examples that demonstrate what real leaders should not do or say. More stories about annoying bosses can be found in our previous features here and here.

#1 Very Inappropriate Joke

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#2 That’s Just Awful

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#3 Terrible Boss Regretting

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#4 I Left My Job Shortly After Receiving This “Prize” For My Good Work

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#5 Boss Changed Her Mind Very Fast

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#6 My Fiance Called In Sick. Her Boss Called 911 And Told The Police She Was On Drugs. Is This Legal?

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#7 My Boss Thinks I Should Skip Seeing My Probation Officer And Go To Jail So He Can Have A Day Off. He Thinks My Labor Should Be More Important Than My Freedom

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#8 After Helping Them On Short Notice Many Times, I Finally Learned That My Day Off Is My Day Off

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#9 Please Note The Timestamps. Any Suggestions On How To Deal With This Outrageous Unfairness?

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#10 I Felt Sick, So I Did A Test For Covid. My Boss Responded With This

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#11 Boss Fired Me For Taking Approved Vacation Time. After That, He Denied My Unemployment. Three Weeks Later, I Got Asked To Sign A Non-Disclosure Agreement

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#12 My Boss Asked Me If I Could Change The Day I Put My Dog To Sleep

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#13 I Got Fired For Telling The Boss “How To Do His Job” When All I Did Was Say, “We Can’t Obstruct A Fire Escape”

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#14 The Fire Exit At My Job Has Been Blocked Like This For Months, And My Boss Threatened To Fire Me After He Saw Me Taking This Photo

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#15 I Lost My Job Of 3 Years Because Of This

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#16 My Boss Called Me In Early, And Said The Line Needs To Be Cleaned Up. He Set Up The Line This Morning And Made All This Mess

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#17 My Boss Screwed The Only Window At Our Office Shut, So It’s Impossible To Get Fresh Air

He wanted to save money by not using the heater, which we never use cause it’s so hot in here anyways, so he decided to screw it shut. This can’t be legal. Right?

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#18 My Coworker Had A Dispute With The Owner. This Is How The Owner Replied On The Group Chat

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#19 I Walked To Work In A Thunderstorm, But My Boss Forgot To Tell Me We All Have Today Off

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#20 I Just Found Out I’m The Single Lowest Paid Paramedic At My Ambulance Company, Despite Having The Most Experience By Several Years

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#21 I’m Still In Shock

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#22 My Boss Told Me To At Least Try Shoveling Out And Come In Today. Red Car Is Mine. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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#23 I Told My Boss I Quit, And He’s Not Going To Pay Me

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#24 My Boss Actually Wrote This On My Last Check

He didn’t give a 2-week notice, was very inconsiderate, and quit for no reason. Vegan who likes cancer, not meat, coward. He got free rides to work for five months. Self-centered and never amount to anything!

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#25 The Same Thing Happened To My Friend Michael Scott When He Had Bruce Springsteen’s Tickets

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#26 Boss Told Me I Have To Come Into Work Because They Need Me

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#27 I Messaged My Boss That There Was A Small Leak, And He Told Me To Put A Bucket Under It. A Few Hours Later, The Ceiling Tiles Collapsed During A Rush

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#28 The Employer Doesn’t Let Workers Use The Air Conditioner As A Heat Wave Comes Rushing In

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#29 My Store Manager Yelled At Me Because I Can Barely Afford To Eat

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#30 Stop Stealing My Electricity

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#31 These Meals We Got At My Job For Shifts Up To 12 Hours

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#32 Boss Gave Me Cash And Called It A Bonus. Months Later, He Took It Out Of My Paycheck

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#33 A 15-Year-Old Kid Was So Tired From The Workload That He Just Fell Asleep On His 10-Minute Break. After Boss Saw That, He Said: “Make Sure He Doesn’t Get Paid For That”

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#34 My Boss Shared This Without A Hint Of Irony In Our WhatsApp Group

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#35 My Boss Wouldn’t Let Me Go To Turn Off My Headlights, Even Though You Could See It Through The Window That They Were On

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#36 My Boss Says It’s My Responsibility To “Walk The Office” When She Steals My Things

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#37 I Am So Done With This

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#38 I Asked For A Raise On Tuesday And Received This Text Message Yesterday Morning

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#39 Boss Called My Dr. Because I Tested Positive For Covid

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#40 3 Months To Know My Worth?

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#41 My Boss Is Physically Incapable Of Pointing Without Touching

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#42 My Boss Didn’t Tell Me In Person To Come To Work On Sunday When He Had The Chance To Do So. Today I Was Awakened By This Message At 2 AM

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#43 I Make $15 An Hour

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#44 My Boss Told Me To Go And Rewire An Old Electrical Cabinet At This Factory. He Didn’t Tell Me That Everything Was Covered In Sewage Liquids

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#45 No Compassion At All

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#46 Recently Posted At Work

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#47 I’m Shamed For Calling Off And Isolating Myself Because Of Covid. My Supervisor Got Mad And Forced Me To Finish A Report At Home. I’m An Unpaid Intern

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#48 My Boss Thought These Were “Perfectly Fine” Tires

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#49 Boss Told Me To Clean The Old Storage Room

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#50 My Job Involves Walking For Hours At A Time. We Also Don’t Get Breaks At All. Even For 12+ Hour Shifts

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#51 My Employer’s Plan In Case Of A Fire?

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#52 I Am At A Loss For Words. This Is Pathetic

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#53 I Didn’t Bring Lunch To Work Since My Employer Was Providing Pizzas. Two Slice Limit On Pizzas They Cut Into 16 Slices

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#54 I Dislocated My Shoulder Yesterday And Got 2-Week Notice From My Employer Today, Because It’s Going To Take Me About A Month To Heal

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#55 My Partner Asked If They Would Be Getting Paid For A Mandatory Work Meeting On Their Day Off

What makes it worse is this place doesn’t do holiday pay despite it being a legal requirement in the UK.

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#56 My Boss Posted This Right After They Mandated Mandatory 6 Days And 11 Hours Work Days

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#57 This Is How My Mom’s Employer Shipped Her $2000 Work Laptop

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#58 My Job Wrote Me Up For Discussing The Pay. What Should I Do?

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#59 The Audacity Of The Boss

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#60 My Boss Texted Me In The Middle Of The Night

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#61 We Discovered That The Warehouse We Worked At Had A Heating Until Someone Left It On 60°F For One Night, And My Boss Broke The Controller

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#62 I Asked Supervisor To Add Me To The Schedule, But They Never Responded. Then They Got Mad At Me For Not Showing Up

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#63 Employees Were Treated Like Middle Schoolers

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#64 Our New Manager

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#65 My Boss Installed A Water Dispenser Yesterday. This Morning, We Got Into The Office To This

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#66 I Was In An Accident Due To California’s Blizzard, Stranded Overnight In Snow, With No Phone Service

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#67 My Boss Gave Us Gift Bags. I Don’t Think They Were From This Year

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#68 My Boss Texted An Assignment On My Day Off

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#69 My Boss Gave Me An 18-Hour Notice That We Will Have A Mandatory Meeting

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#70 My Boss Posted This Job Description On Facebook And Then Commented On This A Week Later. I Wonder Why No One Applied

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#71 I Had A Personal Thing Come Up For Thursday, And My Boss Is Just Ignoring My Time Off Request

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#72 This Burrito At My Job Costs $5.54, And We’re Not Allowed To Leave To Get The Food

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#73 My Boss Didn’t Tell Me That He Put Bread Rolls In The Oven Before Leaving

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#74 My Boss At Work Said This When My Mom Called Me About Her Getting A Big Seizure

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#75 We Had A Cake At The Office, And This Is How My Boss Cut It

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#76 My Cheap Boss Made This Ceiling Fan

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#77 My Husband Was Promoted To His Former Boss’s Position, And The Guy Left His Office Like This For My Husband To Move Into

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#78 My Friend Almost Got Scammed

My friend went to the job interview and was told she would get a certain pay, but when she started signing the paperwork, the rate was $3.15 lower than agreed. When she questioned it, the interviewer said: “Well, you’re here now, may as well take it.”

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#79 My Employer Sent Me This

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#80 My Boss Provided Lunch Of “Italian Sausage With Peppers And Onions”

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#81 Employer Treated Us To A Break Room Dinner, And This Is What He Gave Us. We Are Only Allowed To Take One

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#82 This Is At My Work, Near The Front Of The Store. I Asked Management If I Could Block It Off, So No Kids End Up Touching It, And They Said No

Yes, that’s a metal prong in that electric socket. I really hope no one ends up in the hospital because of this.

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#83 I Got Disciplinary Action For Being Sick And Calling In

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#84 My Boss’s “Inspirational” Quote On The Wall

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#85 My Employer Changed Insurance Provider This Year. My ADHD Meds Used To Cost $25 A Month Last Year. Now It’s Over $350

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#86 Unused Material From The Job Site. Our Boss Said That It’s Cheaper, To Just Throw It All Away. This Bin Will Be Full By The End Of The Week

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#87 Boss Said: “Hey Can You Try To Clean Up The Wires Under The Dash?”

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#88 Supervisor Wanted Us To Clear Out The Back Room By Friday. We Have Another Truck On Thursday, And This Is What It Looks Like Now

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#89 When The Boss Doesn’t Care

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#90 My Boss Accused Me Of Lying About An Accident That Caused Me To Be Late For Work. So I Quit. I Won’t Let Anyone Speak To Me In Such A Disrespectful, Unprofessional Manner

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#91 Jackhammer Bit Broke When My Boss Was Using It For About 2 Minutes

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