Friday, July 31, 2020

People's Most Eccentric and Oblivious Bosses


Most bosses have some weird eccentricities and behaviors. Some bosses are outright oblivious and rude, and others might just be straight up dumb. Here are experiences with real-life Michael Scotts. Some employees had a better time than others. Some bosses are just hell to work for, like this ungrateful psycho boss who got instant karma.

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Text - homeschoolpromqueen 51.6k points · 13 hours ago 5 & 4 More Worked with a genuine Michael Scott: i.e. a nice, well- meaning person who just did some absurd things. We had kidnapping drills one day, where we learned how to 'not be kidnapped'. Notably, this was a regular, boring office in a regular, boring suburb. No reason why kidnapping would be on anybody's radar.. He and several of the guys randomly broke out into a push-up contest. Again. White collar office. Middle-aged dudes in khakis

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Text - Disappeared for four days. No call. No email. Wouldn't respond to any of our attempts to reach him. Finally, someone drove out to his house to make sure he was alive. He was. He'd just forgotten to tell us he was taking the week off, and then lost his phone in a lake. There were many, many moments like these. Great boss. Genuinely cared about everyone in the company. Occasional moments of brilliance, where he really got things done. But OMG, so many moments of ridiculousness.

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Text - happydactyl31 36.8k points · 13 hours ago 2 4 3 & 4 More I used Michael Scott as a reference point for an old boss of mine from the moment I started working there. He made Chewbacca noises on the regular because one of my coworkers' names sort of vaguely sounded like Chewbacca (it didn't), used voice to text extremely loudly in his office for no reason to send really personal messages, got really excited and wore a specific vest any time we had after-work outings scheduled, shouted the sa

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Text - That said - he had all the good parts too. He never hesitated go to the mat for any of us whether we deserved it or not, he gave really sage business advice and great examples of how to face challenges out of absolutely nowhere, and he came to every community play I did in the 4 years I worked for him - and told everyone else in the office how good I was in it for the following month and chastised them for not coming. When things really got serious or bad in my life, he couldn't have been

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Text - BigShoots 34.5k points · 14 hours ago We had an anonymous feedback program at work, and our boss was livid with the results, particularly with several comments that he frequently lost his temper in meetings and would yell at us. The more he talked about how incorrect and unfair and hurtful these comments were, the redder and angrier he got, until he finally pounded the table and shouted, "I DO NOT! SCREAM! IN MEETINGS! OKAY?"

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Text - RespectFar 3.1k points · 13 hours ago I had a redhead boss who made us all sit down and watch a training video about how we shouldn't refer to him as a "ginger" because it is bullying. No one had ever called him that.

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Text - Two_for_joy 24.4k points · 15 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago O O & 9 2 & 4 More I had one and these are just a few quick stories • he asked me how much I weighed during my interview • one time he was considering selling the company to a Japanese company and while walking them around the building he was heard saying 'we really bombed the hell out of you, huh? • he got on the intercom and interrupted everyone by yelling for someone to bring him the football team's schedule • I have video o

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Text - • one time he told me to call his assistant and have her bring him a bag of coffee and his 5lb dumbbell • he had a 'secret' facelift. He was mysteriously gone for 3 weeks and came back with a beard. • I ended up with a box of pictures from the 70s with an exotic dancer giving him a lap dance. In the conference room. Same furniture. • One time I watched his business partner go down the pot luck line, tasting everything with the same fork. At the end of the line, he stuck his used fork into

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Text - LemonsofLifee 21.2k points · 14 hours ago He wanted a pomegranate for lunch and they were out of season, but that didn't stop him from sending me on a quest to every grocery store in town in search of a pomegranate. Multiple produce guys laughed at me, but that was the easiest $13/hr I've ever made.

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Text - lala710 20.4k points · 14 hours ago He held a meeting with our whole team less one person to discuss said person being gay. We all knew for well over a year, and never made a deal of it. So yes, they are out there and that is why the show is so funny to me. I can relate..

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Text - represent_represent 19.0k points · 14 hours ago I worked for a woman as her "personal assistant/ cat sitter". She was super rich and off the deep end nuts. She had me order a mannequin online, and then paid me to take one of the mannequin legs to Nordstrom to try and see what suitcase I could buy that would fit the dismembered mannequin body, because she wanted to fly with the mannequin to Pittsburgh to display "as her daughter", dressed in her daughter's clothes, at that daughter's gradu

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Text - PAzo042 17.4k points · 14 hours ago I literally had a boss who would stop us in the middle of our work and hold company-wide meetings talking about 9/11 truther conspiracies and chemtrails. Mind you we were furniture- making company. He would get so caught up in his conspiracy theories that he forgot to order wood to make furniture one month.

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Text - enlarged-tuna-fish 15.3k points · 14 hours ago Never have worked for one myself, but my dad told me a story about his boss who was giving out awards to everyone in honor of how long they've worked there, and he would give speeches for each person. A woman employee received her award and he gave a speech about the story of how she came to work there. And he said, "At first I didn't want to hire her because she was so hot." My dad's not working there anymore, but I love that story because I

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Text - supersecretsecretary 14.7k points · 14 hours ago My boss used to carry around a backpack full of hammers and if you fell sleep at your desk he started banging a hammer on your desk until you woke up and then he would autograph the hammer and give it to you as a gift

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Text - harperv215 14.5k points · 14 hours ago I had a boss that used to watch me through a gap in the glass partition between our desks. She wanted to see if I was paying attention during meetings. One day, I put a large folder to cover the gap and she freaked. I still laugh when I think about it.

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Text - holmen-2001 12.1k points · 14 hours ago 3 My ass boss insisted his daughters be flower girls in my wedding. I declined. At the reception, he told me I was spending too much time talking to one person, and I need to work the room more.

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Text - mackenziefox55 7.4k points 13 hours ago Yep, I had one. Organized a thoroughly awkward award ceremony once (that we never did again). Asked a Mexican employee if his new baby's name was going to be “No Mas" during the shower we threw for him. Heard me once use the phrase "economy of scale," then used it wrong 5 minutes later in a conversation with different people. Didn't know the meaning behind "Black Friday" and what it meant for a company to be "in the black." Just like Michael Scott,

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Text - paulfromatlanta 6.8k points · 14 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago Long ago, my 80 year old boss pulled me into his office B: "Paul, I've noticed that your shirts come untucked and that looks unprofessional" Me: I'm sorry about that Joel B: I want you to start tucking your shirts into your underwear Me: Uhhh... B: Go ahead and and try it now. Me: Joel, you know I have 15 women who report to me - I can't un-do my pants in the office. B: Sure you can. Drops pants. He is 80 and wearing Spiderm

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Text - downloadedpizza 6.7k points · 14 hours ago My brother had two bosses at his first job that I think fit this. It was an old married couple that owned the gym across the street from us. Probably in their 70s when he started working there. The wife was from Germany and super strict, the husband was clearly losing it Some notable mentions are: •when the husband combined bleach and ammonia to clean the hot tub and sauna room, tear gassing my brother in the process •wife insisted the street be

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