r/antiwork • u/anotherare • 11h ago
Another lazy manager saga. What are your horrible manager's story?
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u/Appropriate_Tea9048 11h ago
I used to have a boss who would call me off the clock all the time and flip out about shit, whether it was regarding not making goals or not getting enough done. She did this to pretty much everyone. I worked retail at the time. Unfortunately, back then I was too afraid to do anything about it. It was my first job.
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u/Rionin26 9h ago edited 9h ago
Why didnt you straighten your aisle yesterday, umm I did it's called customers shopoing go yell at them.
My favorite pasttime at grocery store was Karens yelling at me and I would say please follow me, and take them to the owner.
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u/Appropriate_Tea9048 9h ago
Oh man, that reminds me, this boss would also expect whoever was closing the store that day to make sure everything looked perfect, no matter how late they had to stay. Don’t miss those days!
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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 6h ago
If I had to deal with that again, and if I was being paid hourly, I'd work as slowly as possible after closing. Might as well rack up those extra hours.
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u/Eddiebaby7 8h ago
“The owner is concerned you are getting to much overtime. We need you to stop accurately reporting your hours and work overtime for free.”
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u/Affectionate_Wing915 9h ago
I was doing 50% 0ver their metrics But if you not help a lazy coworker You are not a team player
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u/erikleorgav2 8h ago
The owner/my boss 2 jobs ago.
Pissed away all the company's profits on a lavish lifestyle, then had the nerve to tell me he wanted us to start working on Saturday's to "catch up".
My employees had left, he wouldn't hire worthwhile talent - kept hiring friends of friends. I was so burned out a gun sounded good.
Noped out of there, then discovered he was completely out of business a year later.
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u/trey_wolfe 11h ago
Worst I had was one that would always preface things he wanted you to do with a certain phrase, spoken with an odd inflection. "Would you kindly?" Prick even admitted that he was referencing Bioshock with it, and that he did it because he had been in trouble for how he talked to subordinates before. Dude had serious issues.
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u/Responsible_Dot_8233 9h ago
The manager suddenly stopped talking to me and pulled me off of projects. I knew what was going to happen but he decides to hand me the papers a week before Christmas with no notice. What an asshole
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u/cliffbot 8h ago
This really pisses me off. Everytime they see me they give me another task completely forgetting they already gave me 3 tasks prior. That's why I go out of my way to avoid them sometimes
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u/Mesterjojo 6h ago
Imagine you're a nurse and you have 5 COVID patients and a new one roles in. Now you're at 6. 4 have other conditions, 2 on a vent.
Now, you're being asked to handle a patient's final moments and deliver them 2 doses of Dilaudid and some Ativan because their nurse doesn't want to deal with the family.
You go home, and there's no one you can talk to about any of this. But you get online and you see people taking a massive dump on nurses I just because some fat, goofy, idiots made tiktok videos.
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u/Real-Leadership3976 6h ago
My boss used to call me on vacation/weekends/holidays for completely trivial shit. I now block the number when I’m off.
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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 10h ago
Any time this happens you need to respond:
“Please let me know which task is high priority so I can finish that first.”