Friday, July 17, 2020

AskReddit Thread: Bosses And Managers' Worst Employees


It's a wonder that these people were able to get jobs in the first place. You never know what kind of baggage someone might be carrying when they start up with a new job. If you're lucky and smart about it, you properly vet those applicants to make sure you don't have complete toxic chaos erupt further on down the road. 

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Text - probablynappingtbh • 13h Not a boss but there's a girl I work with now who is bad but not bad enough to do anything about it. I work in a kiosk and she's always walking out without saying or taking 30 minute breaks to hang out with her friends who come visit her. We'll get a customer and while I'm taking the order she'll just be standing on her phone not helping at all. Not to mention she's almost 30 with two kids. I'm a teenager and l'm given about twice the amount of hours as she is.

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Text - Lamplock • 7h Not a manager but an assistant supervisor of a catering company. We have this one girl who is so monotonous and just so slow it's the most frustrating thing on the planet. She's also recently decided to just not turn up for shifts when she pleases, but the bosses won't fire her because we need her for big events. We've got other staff that constantly turns down shifts then writes angry emails in when she doesn't get given any shifts. And then a bunch of other staff that cons

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Text - potatoprincess17 • 4h Kid I worked with last week trained for one day, another girl called to ask where he is the next day. He responds with, "oh yeah I don't work there any more." I respond with, "We'd like a two week notice before you quit, you have shifts you're responsible for." Kid, "yeah, no l'm not coming."

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Text - pocketrocketsingh • 8h The one who believed and insisted that he is way smarter than his peers and others in the company and was actually an idiot.

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Text - Chromatinkerer • 18h My boss had a former employee who he had a disagreement with. The employee started calling his house in the middle of the night and hanging up, repeatedly.

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Text - JudgeSmailsfresca • 4h The "victim" or always "done wrong" employee, forever complaining about the job, but never brings solutions and resists change because "this is how we've always done it."

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Text - Cultured_Ignorance • 18h Always late and always asked when we could take a break. Every day he had some injury which excused him from working hard like the other guys. He wanted to use a company truck to pick up a girl he was seeing to go to dinner. One day he showed up at the job site at noon and said he had court that morning. Never let me know and had no paperwork to prove it. Fired him there on the spot and have no idea what he's doing now.

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Text - WithGravy • 16h Guy who was constantly on his phone. Had a shit don't stink attitude. And always failed miserably with hitting on the female employees, but never stopped.

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Text - NocturneMarvel • 13h Not a boss or anything, but when I was working front line at Boston Market, in a food court, on a military base, we had a worker who constantly glared at customers. One time she went on break before a rush, came back during a rush and yelled "I'm back, bitches." To us and the military personnel and their families standing in line. Hated working with her and actually requested to never work with her again after she yelled at me for being the one person our boss told th

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Text - KavaBill • 7h A girl who is so bad people go to other cafes to avoid her and come in when she's not there. When she is repremanded for making yet another mistake, she will lose a shift and then purposely open the store hours late the next day, killing business, out of spite. She knows we can't fire her. She sleeps with the owner.

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Text - phephelant • 15h Not a boss but my co-worker was the absolute worst. We worked at a horse farm and the guy hated horses. He also avoided doing any work ever. He'd make deals where we'd each do one job and then wait around for me to do mine so that l'd help him with his. Literally made a simple job impossibly difficult and sometimes dangerous and he still is there even after I quit.

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Text - NachOMan_RandySavage • 13h We had a guy at my movie theater who could never do anything important. Like we would be shutting down concessions for the night so everyone could go home and I would find him in the back making kid pack boxes, which definitely weren't needed. Or we'd have a giant movie in theaters that needed to be turned around quickly and he would be meticulously sweeping less than 1/2 a row while there were other huge messes and customers waiting.

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Text - 8337 • 18h The worst employee you can have is one that doesn't do anything egregious enough to fire, but manages to make every single workday that much more aggravating. The worst guy had an attention span of a gnat. You had to write down instructions for everything, even tasks he'd done a million times before, and check in on him every 15 minutes or so. And yet, given these parameters, he'd complete perfect work. Every year during performance reviews, we'd argue about whether or not to k

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Text - JavaJapes • 13h I once had an employee that thought to flip a burger you were supposed to flip it like a pancake. He didn't last long considering he constantly had moments like that all day, that was just the thing I remember specifically. Too many stories to pick from but that one still makes me laugh when I remember it happening.

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Text - beansinacup • 3h I was managing a pub a while ago and we had a young lad with us my boss had left me with, he'd been hired out of favour to his parents. I asked him to hoover/vacuum and he looks at me and asks how? I explained calmly that you plug it in the ducking wall and move one end around to pick up shit... have you not seen your mom clean? His reply was "we had servants" Same lad wanted to see a proper English pub fight, after a few locals went fisty cuffs I found him hiding in MY O

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Text - YouMeAndSymmetry • 8h She enjoyed wearing clothes that were definitely not dress code approved. We were allowed to dress up for Halloween. We still had a dress code, but she ignored it. She was just incompetent as a cashier and as a stocker. Very poor attitude. She could never understand how things needed to be done. My store manager just would not fire her, even after no call-no shows. I eventually caught her doing a drug deal over the store phone while checking out customers. She admitt

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