Bosses, Supervisors, Managers, ect......

Oh, dude, I think you've got the wrong impression. I'm not complaining. I'm just trying to havea discussion about it. Thought it'd be cool to talk about how much of an a** your old boss might have been.

I had a couple bosses when I worked at Best Buy who were complete a-holes.

For example, I was working with a high-profile customer (DJ Kid Capri) and selling him some computer stuff for 'the road'. Well, I'm in the middle of selling and one of the managers, who is a fan of Kid Capri's comes over and says, "Nick, why don't you go help other customers, and I'll help him?" I felt kind of offended because, quite frankly, I was the best sales person in the store (including him). But I let him take over, because I knew he was a fan, and I figured that maybe he wanted to try to get an autograph or something....

So the next day, I get called into an office by the store's general manager and he sits me down and asks, "Why did you give a customer $600 off on their laptop? We lost money on that product." I didn't. Turns out, the manager who took over for me decided to give Kid Capri a $600 discount on his laptop in exchange for an autographed CD and a photograph with him... He then rung out the sale and used my name as the salesperson.

I tried to explain the situation, but of course, the general manager didn't believe me and thought that I was trying to 'steal from the store' by giving a customer such a huge discount.

Eventually that other manager admitted to giving the guy a discount, but he said that I was the one who offered the customer the discount in the first place.

I was quite furious, and told the guy to go himself.

what about Head Master? mine is a religious nut and if you do anything bad he will but it into a bible story

I work in a Supermarket, my Boss always expects the best and sometimes, the best isn't good enough. It annoys me because you try your hardest and work like hell, and there's still faults and problems.

I'm a Team Leader, so I have to look after 30+ members of staff and feel alot of pressure and don't always get the right support. However, I have one hell of a firey attitude and will fire straight back at my manager/trading manager without thinking, sometimes.

I work at kohls. Im a supervisor, get along great with all the managers and districts. Did have one manager when i first started there a year ago who would bitch just to bitch, she was fired, and another supervisor that was fired just last week was the same.

I cant say.....my boss might read this.

The only job I ever had where I hated my boss (a Circuit City location in 2002), it was the exact same way. Our store manager, over the course of the six months I worked there in sales, did all of the following, plus more:

-- Had an affair with an 18-year-old female employee who then told his wife on him (the guy also had two young daughters with his wife)... the day the girl quit, his wife came to the store and slapped the s*** out of him in the parking lot.

-- Held morning meetings to go over the prior day's sales figures and publicly mock and humiliate the salespeople who had poor showings, as a way to "motivate" them to get better.

-- *Required* us to use part of our lunch break to visit a competing local entertainment store in plain clothes, once per week, and file a report to the rest of the department on their prices, procedures, etc. (I actually didn't have a problem with the scouting, but requiring us to do it during our lunch break was douchebaggery at its finest.)

-- Reduced an older (pushing 60) female saleswoman to tears by confronting her about going to corporate about his threats and degrading comments toward her, and told her he'd "make her life miserable" from that point on. She had her hours cut and was reassigned to selling audio equipment, which she knew nothing about, despite having over a decade of experience selling TVs.

-- Regularly chewed out salespeople in front of customers for -- get this -- not approaching customers often enough. (So on top of trying to shop in peace, and trying to avoid pushy salesmen, the customers are made to feel guilty about shunning the salesmen when they approach.)

-- Shouted at a very experienced TV salesman after he managed to sell 8 rear projection HDTVs to a local business (whose owner was at one point ready to leave to see what other stores had for sale), because they only bought the extra insurance protection plan on 4 of the TVs. (Exact quote: "I thought you were supposed to be a GOOD salesman?")

-- Would issue written, formal "disciplinary warnings" for low sales numbers. As if not selling enough was a disciplinary problem.

-- Would regularly try to force salespeople to resign if they had sub par numbers, because he didn't have enough proper cause to fire them. His trick was to call people into his office and tell them "Corporate has recommended that I fire you," as a way of convincing the employee that it was hopeless to put up a fight. He would then play "good cop" and suggest resigning immediately to "save" that person from having to say they were fired. Most people fell for it. The one kid that opted not to resign was reduced to four hours per week and held to the same sales quota as those of us who worked almost 40 hours a week. The kid eventually quit because he wasn't making enough money to live on.

In a bit of good news, I heard from friends that about a year after I escaped that place, the manager was fired because corporate caught him taking money from the car audio installation registers and then trying to blame the shortages on that department's manager. He was taken out of the store in cuffs by the police, and last I heard, was working at a sewage treatment plan.

That's like three of my managers rolled into one.

When I worked at my last job, I had the official worse manager ever. She ripped me a new one publicly for narrowly missing a stat when another employee was greatly over that stat and did not say a word to her about it. So I tried to go to HR, and I could not find them on my breaks or lunch. So I see an HR person walk by, put my phone in after-call, flag her down and say I need to talk to her when she has a minute. My manager came over, and got on my case about phone codes. She said she would get me time with HR. Later, she told me to put my phone in personal time, and go talk to HR, which I did.

The next day, she pulled me off the phone and wrote me up fo being in personal time for fourty five minutes. I kept on saying "You are writing me up for something you told me to do." But she wouldn't listen.

I've had some bad bosses over the years. I was actually promoted to the store manager position where I work this past week, so I'm hoping to learn from their mistakes.