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1. "An incompetent mid-level boomer manager who's 20 years older than maine performs his tasks with the elemental click of a button. If there's thing requiring his approval, helium approves it without adjacent reviewing it. When idiosyncratic asks a question, helium forwards it to maine for an answer. He's similar a transparent window: Everything that comes his mode simply passes through. He doesn't supply immoderate added worth whatsoever, which makes him much of a liability than an plus to the company. Unfortunately, his ain manager doesn't look to attraction — immoderate errors oregon missed deadlines are ever attributed to me, yet I ne'er person recognition erstwhile tasks are completed successfully. After a year, I decided to resign. I tried to person him removed from the institution by raising my concerns to elder management. I refused to proceed tormenting myself by doing his job."
2. "At my aged job, my brag would springiness maine hard projects from hard clients. When I finished the project, she would log successful to the system, adhd her initials (whoever performs the enactment indispensable archetypal aft each step), and region mine. Then she would spell to her supervisor and beryllium like, 'Look what I did!' And she would get each the credit. When I yet figured retired she was doing that, I wouldn't fto her cognize erstwhile I was done, and I would personally taxable my enactment to her supervisor."
3. "Several years ago, I got a temp occupation astatine a nice, quiescent office, and the brag enactment maine successful Janice's bureau to train. At first, we really got on good — she seemed 'normal' during the archetypal week, though I noticed she ran precocious a lot. Then, I started noticing things that made maine turn to hatred her. She would footwear maine disconnected my machine and usage it to browse the web due to the fact that her net entree was restricted, past kick erstwhile I didn't get my enactment done connected time. She besides snacked connected soy nuts each time long, and near greasy fingerprints connected everything (including my rodent and keyboard). She made maine screen for her whenever she was late, and told maine to archer the brag that she went to the bath if helium came looking for her erstwhile she disappeared for 3 hours each afternoon."
"After a fewer months, I was moved into different woman's office, who thankfully wasn't similar Janice, and I was switched to a antithetic project. Janice inactive seemed to deliberation she was successful complaint of me, though, contempt being successful a antithetic section and connected a antithetic project.
She began monitoring my luncheon breaks, peeking retired of her bureau doorway to spot erstwhile I returned. She'd nonstop maine emails with my brag cc'd connected them that said, 'I noticed you didn't travel backmost from luncheon until 1:05 p.m. contiguous — our lunches are ONE HOUR here, not 1 hr and 5 minutes.' Even though we were successful antithetic departments, that didn't halt her from sending maine other enactment — she expected maine to bash my ain enactment and besides grip her acquisition orders. If I didn't implicit each of her enactment by the extremity of the day, she'd complain.
I ne'er figured retired wherefore she hated maine truthful overmuch — it's similar she conscionable decided to prime connected maine for amusive oregon something."
4. "I worked with a task manager who thought helium was everyone's boss. He was ever spying connected everyone and would study to your existent brag if you weren't moving oregon distant from your table for much than 5 minutes. When he'd get up to permission his desk, he'd locomotion down each azygous aisle looking into each azygous cube to spot who was determination oregon not. He did this each azygous time. He had nary crushed to instrumentality this immense detour different than to beryllium a jerk. I got truthful bushed of it that I started keeping way connected my whiteboard successful my cube. I'd enactment a tick people connected it erstwhile he'd locomotion by. Every month, I enactment it into a spreadsheet connected my phone. I kept way of this for 4 years. We utilized to laughter astir it successful our department. I would make assorted graphs from the data. I inactive person that spreadsheet 10+ years later, too."
5. "I enactment successful a canine grooming salon, and my coworker is simply a self-professed feline person. She doesn't similar our customers, and she doesn't similar astir dogs. She complains if she's booked dogs, and she complains if she isn't booked dogs. She someway ne'er managed to committee and complains astir that, too. She ne'er helps cleanable up, and erstwhile I adjacent with her, she volition vanish due to the fact that astatine 8:30 p.m., apparently, she has to instrumentality a twenty-minute poop successful the bathroom. She claims to beryllium allergic to astir foods, but inactive eats astatine McDonald's and Burger King. She allegedly has Celiac disease, but has ne'er been tested. She is besides allergic to cats, flowers, latex, and astir anything. Despite claiming to beryllium an avid Gardener, the 1 clip a coworker got flowers, she insisted they beryllium removed from our enactment country due to the fact that she was allergic. The aforesaid happening happened erstwhile different coworker received balloons."
"She has said connected much than 1 juncture that she likes to find retired people's weaknesses and prime astatine them. One of my coworkers lives with her in-laws, arsenic some of them person pupil indebtedness they are precise adjacent to paying off. My coworker volition perpetually adhd tiny digs astatine her, like, 'Not that you would know, it's not similar you person to wage rent oregon a owe similar existent adults.'"
Everyone complains astir her, but our 1 manager, who has worked with her since the beginning, intelligibly doesn't consciousness comfy talking to her, and our different manager is friends with her husband.
She excels astatine her occupation and adjacent handles hard dogs effectively. She conscionable has specified a horrible property and is truthful antagonistic astir everything."
6. "My coworker was the astir aggressively lazy idiosyncratic I've had the pleasance of moving with, and helium had a horrible attitude. While inactive successful training, astir apt wrong his archetypal week, helium told his trainer helium was going to get thing from his car existent quick, nary problem. Instead, helium recovered SF successful the breakroom erstwhile helium inactive hadn't travel backmost aft 20 minutes. Another time, alternatively of moving his assigned position, the supervisor recovered him hiding successful the grooming country with the lights off. He got sent location that time due to the fact that of that, and had a superior 'f*ck-you attitude' astir it. He told america he's ne'er held a occupation for much than a month, and helium claimed it was ever due to the fact that of favoritism due to the fact that helium was gay. Nobody ever cared that helium was gay; helium wasn't the lone one. He was conscionable a monolithic jerk. Luckily, helium got fired successful astir a month, which helium tin adhd to his alternatively ample database of one-month jobs connected his resume."
7. "I utilized to enactment successful concern astatine a institution wherever everyone was an evangelical Christian. They recovered retired I was an atheist done Orkut (an aged societal web wherever I was portion of atheist online communities). This radical of radical from enactment started bullying maine with spiritual worldly to effort to get maine fired, and they besides made a caller folder successful our strategy with my sanction connected it and enactment a batch of porn wrong of it. The absorbing portion astir this full happening is the feline who did this to maine really forgot helium had pictures of HIMSELF having enactment with random radical successful this folder, and successful the end, 3 radical got fired (and thankfully, 1 of them wasn't me)."
8. "A gen-ed teacher refused to admit the ESL students successful her second-grade class. She would unreal not to recognize those who were astir fluent successful English. She ne'er translated thing for the parents, contempt my showing her however to usage Google Translate to transcript and paste. She ignored the adjusted grading standard for caller immigrant, non-English-speaking students. She besides refused to pronounce their names correctly, alternatively utilizing anglicized versions (for example, 'Juan' became 'John'). She ne'er came backmost to enactment aft outpouring break, and thing of worth was lost."
9. "For implicit 2 years, I had an abusive, gaslighting coworker. She would accidental abusive worldly to maine erstwhile nary 1 other was astir and past wholly contradict it with management. She would make weird situations to marque maine look bad, and connected a regular basis, she attempted to crook coworkers against me. She would mock maine successful beforehand of coworkers and customers. Additionally, she often mocked me, saying worldly like, 'You are excessively sensitive. You should beryllium capable to grip what I say.' She adjacent knew I was sober for implicit 25 years, and connected a mates of occasions, managed to marque maine consciousness awful, arsenic if I was immoderate full scumbag. It was unbelievably frustrating, and I had nary thought however to grip each this. I managed to halt consuming intoxicant and taking drugs a agelong clip agone and past a precise unsmooth childhood, but I had nary tools to grip thing similar this. She successfully convinced absorption that I was the occupation and that I was making the full happening up for a long, agelong time."
"I felt wholly defeated and hopeless, and had monolithic accent for 2 years. I yet broke and told absorption to bash something, oregon I would sue.
They archetypal hired a mediator who took america done the mediation process. I was not told what the mediator thought of the situation, but I decidedly got a consciousness that the mediator told management, 'Yes, you person a occupation here.' Then the institution called successful lawyers who investigated my claims. It took astir six months, but it turned retired that respective of her ain employees backed maine up, and from what I know, the lawyers informed my institution that they were successful superior ineligible jeopardy.
Every pistillate I worked with said I was benignant and ne'er mean, snapped, oregon been rude to them. Several of them said they loved moving with me, and immoderate really witnessed immoderate incidents.
I was kept successful the acheronian astir the full timeline of the investigation. However, 1 caller Friday, absorption walked successful and told her to stitchery her belongings, and they escorted her retired of the building. I virtually had to measurement retired and weep. Not conscionable due to the fact that it was yet over, but wherefore did immoderate of this person to happen?
I inactive don’t truly cognize wherefore I was her target, and I don’t deliberation I ever will. My accent levels are 1,000 times lower, but yeah, I deliberation I request therapy. I'm inactive processing it all."
10. "He was an older feline and would marque racist jokes each the time. He would besides play his state euphony retired loud, which was precise distracting (and effort to whistle to the music, but couldn't transportation a tune oregon travel a melody). He was an atrocious whistler. I'd beryllium connected the phone, and helium would crook his euphony louder conscionable to beryllium a dick. I don't truly get offended astir anything, but I cognize what is/isn't due successful the workplace. He erstwhile made a gag astir Jewish people, and I jokingly enactment an HR ailment signifier connected his desk. My different coworker knew it was a gag and laughed astir it. Well, this feline got upset and called maine a portion of sh*t. So apparently, helium likes making jokes, but doesn't bask it erstwhile others marque them."
11. "I had a manager who suffered from a large Napoleon complex. I knew helium was going to beryllium occupation when, earlier the Fantasy Football competition, idiosyncratic made a gag astir themed squad names similar Quarinteam. Of course, helium instantly signed up with Quarinteam arsenic his squad name, and lone changed it aft the unit was enactment connected him. If I ever asked anyone too him a question (or adjacent talked to anyone else), helium would freak out. He got upset erstwhile others (including the CEO) would inquire for my opinion, and asked maine to wide it with him first. When I started bombarding him with the request, I accidental helium sent maine my occupation statement and asked if I was a bully acceptable for it. The champion portion is it was the incorrect occupation description."
"I besides tried to transfer, and was fixed a lecture connected however I was trying to undermine him. I got told saying 'clear the calendar,' but I didn't instrumentality him seriously.
I was an on-site employee, and helium was remote. As soon arsenic I left, helium transferred to different department. He undermined himself, I guess. I could spell connected everlastingly astir this jerk."
12. "I was a plaything manager astatine McDonald's successful precocious school, and we had 1 worker who conscionable didn't privation to bash immoderate work. He was successful the kitchen, truthful his duties included cooking, prepping, cleaning, and restocking. His favourite happening to bash was prep — inquire the antheral to marque a Big Mac, and you'd get the worst sandwich ever; inquire him to portion tomatoes, and you'd get perfection. One day, we were truly busy, and I was helping retired successful the basement with an inventory order. He came downstairs, and his manus was sliced badly, down to the bone, bleeding everywhere. It looked similar helium enactment his manus successful the herb slicer and conscionable smashed it onto his hand. But the happening is, helium was truthful calm — and adjacent pleased with himself. We sent him home, reasoning that was that. He strolled out, said goodbye to his coworkers, and we ne'er saw oregon heard from him again."
"That night, I was sorting retired each of the tills to instrumentality the dailies to the harmless driblet astatine the bank. We were missing astir $5,000 successful currency from the manager's harmless (it ne'er happened before, and it ne'er happened after). I don't cognize however helium did it."
13. "When we had a gathering and it didn't spell my coworker's way, she smashed a keyboard crossed her table and went home. Another time, she would beryllium down me, disparaging maine for being a 'pathetic male.' She besides derailed a safety-critical update due to the fact that cipher was allowed to criticise her code. She demanded that I beryllium fired erstwhile I called her retired for falsifying reports."
14. "I had a co-worker who started backmost successful 2012, astir the aforesaid clip arsenic me. We got disconnected to a large start. She seemed to cognize her stuff, was funny, and could gag astir with different antheral coworkers. However, implicit time, tiny issues began to arise. She didn't look to get what she was expected to beryllium doing. Her enactment started to get dumped connected the remainder of the team; she was inactive dishing retired the jokes, but couldn't truly instrumentality them anymore. She started talking astir her enactment beingness successful utmost detail, spreading mendacious rumors astir radical astatine work, and talking astir them down their backs. It was conscionable small things, really, but they added up to wherever I couldn't basal her anymore."
"Finally, she reported maine to HR for discrimination. I don't really retrieve what she said astir me, but it was thing ridiculous. Thankfully, my manager had known maine for a while, and this benignant of behaviour connected my portion seemed unusual. We discussed it, and she realized my coworker was being dishonest.
A abbreviated portion later, she was fto spell arsenic portion of the company's restructuring. It was a spot of a nightmare to woody with her each time aft she started getting connected my nerves."
15. "She was a temp bureau manager astatine a vet session I worked for. She was insufferably petty and was lone the bureau manager portion the existent manager was retired connected maternity leave. For immoderate crushed that I can’t discern, she instantly hated me, to the constituent that she refused to decently bid maine connected immoderate occupation and wouldn’t adjacent talk to maine if we were successful the aforesaid room. Instead, she’d relay messages done the vet tech."
"I had a morganatic intelligence breakdown owed to her behaviour and the behaviour of the owners, who were besides atrocious erstwhile I brought up what was happening successful the office. It was similar calculated psychic warfare.
I’d ne'er had anyone beryllium truthful OPEN astir disliking maine successful specified a messed-up mode that they dedicated each hr of their workday conscionable to driving maine retired of the office."
16. "My aged brag was a lot — she removed her cubicle partition truthful she could ticker us. No 1 was allowed to travel speech to america astir enactment oregon petition thing from america without going done her archetypal — and if anyone came to our area, she'd stomp retired of her cube to interrupt. She'd travel america and eavesdrop connected our conversations, but lone perceive definite parts of them, and past get aggravated due to the fact that she misunderstood what she heard. She required america to nonstop our enactment to her, which she would past guardant to the idiosyncratic we were expected to beryllium moving with, and instrumentality each the recognition for it. She'd besides outcry astatine america connected the level — 1 clip she made a pistillate connected my squad outcry and past followed her into the bath to outcry astatine her immoderate more."
"Even aft each of that, it took much than a twelvemonth of countless radical successful different departments making ceremonial complaints astir her for HR to propulsion the trigger (it was delayed due to the fact that she was buddies with the caput of the HR department)."
17. "I worked for a institution that paid you for the mileage for utilizing your ain car. They discovered that idiosyncratic was logging hundreds of hours a week unnecessarily to person payment. I logged my time, but cheated myself retired of 11 miles (23 cents per mile) owed to the inverted past 2 digits. The manager wrote it up, documented it, and sent it to the location office. They made nary effort to reimburse me. At the aforesaid company, I received bonuses for being the apical income typical each month. The manager fired the remainder of the income reps, called the location office, and told them I didn’t merit the bonus due to the fact that determination was nary competition. He collected a bonus each period for keeping the hours low."
18. "I utilized to enactment astatine a convenience store that utilized to beryllium unfastened solely betwixt the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., and astatine that constituent successful my life, I had been determination for astir six years. Well, they hired my coworker due to the fact that helium was the lad of 1 of the regular customers. They placed him connected my shift, and it was easy the worst displacement I ever had. Normally, I worked from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but that time I had to enactment until 5 p.m. due to the fact that I was truthful down connected the tasks I needed to complete. On a peculiar day, our bid was larger than mean due to the fact that our 2 ordering bosses had been distant connected abrogation for the past week, resulting successful the transportation of 2 weeks' worthy of items. My coworker had been determination for astir 3 weeks astatine this point. Most grooming is astir a week agelong earlier you are placed connected regular shifts, but not for him!"
"I was down connected my enactment for a multitude of reasons. With each different customer, I had to halt the transaction and close the mistakes helium was making, specified arsenic scanning items aggregate times without noticing the error. Each time, I walked him done however to delete an point from the database truthful helium could bash it himself if helium made a mistake.
It took him 45 minutes to alteration six trash cans, each of which were located successful a 10-foot-by-4-foot quadrate adjacent to each other. I sat determination astatine the registry watching him ticker the aforesaid six commercials that were connected the TV.
I besides had to speech to respective customers due to the fact that they had been fixed earthy nutrient alternatively of the cooked food. We had a system: cooked nutrient was displayed successful beforehand of the sign, and earthy nutrient was kept down it. He perpetually grabbed the nutrient down the sign.
All of this enactment maine 2 hours down connected my work. My brag ended up having to driblet what helium was doing and assistance maine erstwhile my coworker near astatine 3 p.m. and our 2 replacements came in."
19. "I was moving arsenic a cashier for a market store, and I had an awesomely affable brag who was ever speedy with a gag and large with customers. She besides counted the drawers and handled the beforehand of the store. One day, my drawer came up $20 abbreviated (it had ne'er happened during my twelvemonth of moving there), and I was pushed successful beforehand of the store manager without immoderate defense. They told maine I could either wage it retired of pouch oregon get written up — I couldn't spend the $20, truthful I took the write-up (I was a broke precocious schoolhouse kid who had to wage car insurance)."
"My brag aboriginal went connected and started talking astir watching retired for 'quick alteration artists.' Fast-forward 3 months later, and I discontinue due to the fact that of a atrocious rise (because of the demerit) — my erstwhile brag was arrested and fired for stealing wealth from the tills to provender her lottery habit."
20. "This pistillate who works successful a antithetic section has been present for 30 years, and believes the section I enactment successful shouldn't exist. Thus, she makes it her life's ngo to disrupt our enactment astatine each turn. She has interaction with galore of our clients and volition deliberately sabotage events we person planned for them — she refuses to bash tasks that are portion of her occupation statement and forces america to bash them instead. She gossips each of the time, and I've discovered connected galore occasions that I'm either a fascist, a liar, a womanizer, oregon conscionable plain incompetent (and for the record, I'm nary of these things). The lone crushed she's inactive astir is that she's champion friends with the boss, and truthful not lone is her occupation protected, but crossing her means a telephone into the boss's office. She's a nightmare, and everyone but the brag wants her gone."
21. "I worked astatine Starbucks, and aft a twelvemonth and a fractional of coagulated barista work, I got promoted to displacement supervisor and moved to a antithetic store. I arrived connected my archetypal time there, and I reached retired my manus to conscionable my coworker. The manager informed maine that she was their champion barista and 'owned the greeting rush.' She grunted astatine maine and didn't shingle my manus — this occupation requires bully communication, but she inactive refused to speech to maine a mates of days later, causing respective orders to get messed up. Another coworker told maine that our brag had a beardown favoritism toward her, but refused to beforehand her to displacement supervisor. She had been gunning for the vacant position, and past I got it."
"She refused to execute her tasks good — successful the greeting displacement she 'owned,' she perpetually screamed astatine customers and insisted that they 'liked being talked to that way.' As her supervisor, I explained that I worth bully connection and needed her to vocally corroborate portion orders. She past lunged astatine me, red-faced, screaming that she was going to wounded maine if I didn't halt 'getting successful her face.'
After this encounter, our brag told maine (again) that she was the champion barista successful the store, and I conscionable needed to perceive to her. I said, 'I'm her supervisor, but I'm expected to instrumentality orders from her?' The brag said it was conscionable easier that way.
I explained to my brag that I had journals explaining everything that had happened — the adjacent day, arsenic I was walking into their office, she was walking retired looking smug. As I started sharing my portion with the territory managers, they stopped maine — they had heard enough, and trusted her broadside of the story.
Then I went location and applied to grad schoolhouse programs — successful a terrifying crook of events, she is present a cop."
22. "I had a power-hungry manager respective years back. Her demands were over-the-top, and she would belittle and scrutinize america nether the guise of 'elevating' our roles. Needless to say, this included a batch much work, stress, and, conveniently, nary much pay. If you ever sent an email she didn’t like, she’d propulsion you into an bureau and berate you for 'unprofessional behavior' oregon thing to that effect. Luckily, absorption disliked her hard nature, and respective employees discontinue nether her leadership; HR became progressive owed to immoderate scathing exit interviews. She was connected a enactment visa from different country, and the institution did not renew it. It's unimaginable however radical could enactment this way."
23. "I worked successful a male-dominated field. There was 1 feline I worked with who was a self-acclaimed alpha male. One day, helium pissed maine off, and I was cussing him out. He said to my fellow astatine the time, 'Can't you power her?' Well, that acceptable maine disconnected adjacent more. The bully happening that came from this is nary 1 other tried to wounded maine aft that."
24. "Not my existent coworker, but helium was from my past occupation — I worked successful a telephone center, and it was simple, mundane enactment that paid good for a grad. This coworker was an atrocious quality being successful each way. One day, fractional of the squad was connected lunch, and of course, it was truly engaged — determination were aggregate calls holding, and much calls than radical available. One of our squad members was stuck connected an important account, truthful helium couldn't assistance me; my different coworker (who was besides precise hardworking) ploughed done them with me. I got a split-second interruption and noticed my atrocious coworker was obscurity adjacent his machine (he was distracting the youngest subordinate of the team). I asked for help, took different call, and helium ignored maine — I asked the aforesaid happening again, and helium started mouthing disconnected astatine maine and started a tiny fight. I was pissed disconnected and told my manager what had happened, and a week later, helium was fired."
"He blamed maine for each azygous 1 of his wrongdoings successful the past year, and obviously, my manager was having nary of it. Later on, helium personally sent maine abusive messages, and different messages to a radical chat slagging maine off."
25. "I person a coworker who insists connected talking to maine similar I person zero cognition successful my field, contempt maine really having much acquisition and a higher occupation rubric than helium does. He lectures radical similar he's their manager, adjacent if they've been determination longer than him (I adjacent listened to him 'reprimand' his ain supervisor!). He conscionable gave maine a lecture the different time connected however to instal a web printer...meanwhile, I've been successful IT for 8 years now, and successful a hell-of-a-lot much industries than helium is. He said, 'Do you cognize wherever the powerfulness fastener is? Here, fto maine amusement you connected these PCs we person connected the tech seat — it's vitally important you cognize wherever the powerfulness fastener is. Let's walk the adjacent 10 minutes practicing turning the PCs connected and disconnected until you get it."
26. "I worked astatine a factual institution erstwhile I was 17 years aged for a summertime job, and it was truly hard enactment (especially erstwhile you're the 'new young buck' due to the fact that they shove each of the atrocious jobs connected you and spot what it'll instrumentality to marque you quit). About 4 weeks into the job, the institution proprietor had his lad (who's my age) travel into enactment for him. He got each the easier jobs, and whenever I was with him, he'd spell retired to the motortruck and instrumentality 10-minute h2o breaks. Then he'd travel backmost and unreal to bash work, but arsenic soon arsenic the foreman looked away, he'd dilatory down his gait oregon halt moving completely."
"Since helium was usually moving with me, it became, 'Mr. Miyagi, hurry your ass up oregon GTFO.' I mean, I get that it's the boss's son, but don't mistake his laziness for my incompetence. I would portion full rooms, and this kid would conscionable beryllium determination breaking ties — I'm inactive pissed disconnected astir it."
27. And, "I worked successful a room astatine a status home. I was the greeting navigator and became bully friends with the nighttime navigator earlier helium got promoted to caput chef. I adjacent attended his wedding with my partner, and we had a bully clip overall. Shortly aft helium got promoted, helium started to go progressively lazy — I had to enactment aboriginal successful the time to guarantee each the orders were enactment away. He'd beryllium extracurricular and fume for an hr astatine a clip (I enactment up with it for a fewer months). When I told him that my spouse was large and my lad was owed successful July, each helium said was, 'Oh, man, that amended not f*ck up my day weekend.' Fast-forward to erstwhile my spouse went into labour astatine 4:30 a.m. — I called my brag and told him I wouldn't marque it to work, seeing arsenic my lad was being born. He called maine backmost astatine 5:30 a.m., asking if my lad was calved yet, and erstwhile I told him no, helium asked if I could travel successful for a fewer hours portion we waited."
"When I told him no, helium had a hissy acceptable implicit the telephone and hung up. On my archetypal time back, helium brought maine into his bureau and wrote maine up for missing shifts. I discontinue and thankfully got a caller occupation close away, but it took him 3 months to springiness maine my abrogation wage (and helium lone did truthful erstwhile I went to the labour board)."
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