Bad bosses come in all shapes and forms. While some are straight-up selfish and unethical, others continuously tell their employees the absolute worst things. But there's a whole other category of managers who are simply awful human beings that always seem to find a way to make every day feel like a never-ending nightmare.
When you constantly clean up your boss's mess, witness ridiculous entitlement, and put up with a complete lack of respect, it’s easy to feel frustrated. Luckily, there are plenty of people who call out their out-of-touch bosses by documenting their nasty behaviors and sharing them with the whole world.
Bored Panda combed the web and compiled this list of the greatest examples of how bosses and managers show off their worst sides. So get comfy, grab a metaphorical box of popcorn, and continue scrolling! Upvote the ones that surprised you most and share your own experiences with us in the comments.
#1 Who Is The Boss Now?
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#2 Is It Normal To Not Want To Discuss The Base Pay?
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#3 The Company Culture
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#4 I'm A Skilled Tradesman Who Is Supposed To Get A $3000 Bonus At The End Of The Year For Making The Company $150,000 In Profit, Per My Contract
I doubled it, which is supposed to increase my bonus. This is what I received. 100% done with this industry.
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#5 Finally Decided I’d Had Enough Of My Boss On Monday, And Did It Feel Good
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#6 My Office Has Lost 60% Of Our Staff Since The Start Of The Pandemic. I Am Doing The Work Of 3 People And I Was Here For 14 Hours Yesterday
Got this email from our area manager this morning. Happy Thanksgiving
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#7 Boss Told Me After Massively Overworking Me That If I Want To Play In His Sandpit I Need To Toughen Up
Told him I don’t want to play in the sandpit, I want time to lay on the lawn with my cats. He told me to take my cats and go to hell. He was bluffing. I wasn’t. I quit! Coming at ya from my lawn!
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#8 I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans. By Hand
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#9 I Work In Construction And Get Paid In Cash. My Boss Thinks He's Funny
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#10 Trashy Bosses
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#11 Toddler Logic
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#12 2 Weeks Of Telling My Boss The Produce In The Warehouse Are Going Bad. Him: Don't Worry About It
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#13 A Competing Company Is Offering Us 20 Percent More To Work For Them. Management's Response:
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#14 One Of A Seemingly Endless Series Of Unreasonable Notes Left By My Boss. It’s Great Here
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#15 This Sign. The Manager Must Be A Nightmare
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#16 A Boss’s Emailed Reply To An Employee Testing Positive For Covid-19
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#17 Great Thank You I Will Put You Down
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#18 Had Approved Time Off, Boss Still Scheduled Me
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#19 Why Do Bosses Get So Angry About Vacation Days?
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#20 My Sister Recieved This Email Today. It Was Sent From Her Manager To All Her Coworkers
She reported it to HR and they told her it was "out of place for her to critique her superior's emails."
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#21 I Work In An Italian Restaurant. These Are The Notes Of Encouragement That My Boss Regularly Posts Around The Place. I Love Working For Him
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#22 Called My Boss And Said “How Do You Expect Me To Work Like This.” She Said “Try Your Best.” I’m A Barista
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#23 Unbelievable
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#24 "Boss, We Need New Tools", "You Just Got New Tools"
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#25 Working Night Shift Without Holiday Pay. This Is The Lunch They Provided. Happy New Year
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#26 Throwback To June Of This Year When My Employer Wrote Me Up For Discussing Pay With Coworkers! (Which I Didn't Even Do Btw)
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#27 My Boss Decided To Up The Price Of Our Previously Free Water
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#28 Boss Says We Can’t Wear Masks Because “It Will Scare Customers.” Guess I’ll Suck Some Pollen Like A Vacuum
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#29 Texted Area Manager & General Manager I Could Not Open On My Last Day Due To Injury
They demanded I find a cover and had the audacity to get mad at me. This is why they can’t find anyone. So glad I’m quitting.
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#30 My Boss Called Out Today Because His Team Lost The Super Bowl
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#31 A Department Manager Did This To My Bike When I Had It In The Back For A Single Day
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#32 You Love To See It
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#33 My “Boss” Has No Regard For A Customer's Expensive Chair Even After I Told Her How Much It’s Worth
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#34 My Boss Gave Me These Gloves For ''Welding" After My Old Ones Burned
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#35 My Boss Is Physically Incapable Of Pointing Without Touching
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#36 My Bosses Desktop
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#37 Customer Broke This Where I Work At And I Have To Put It Back Like Nothing Happened Because Colleagues Told Me My Boss Will Make Me Pay For It If It Happened On My Shift. Which It Did. Love My Job
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#38 I Am An HR Assistant And I Am Forced By My Boss To Use Paper Like This To Keep Track Of Working Hours Instead Of Just Doing It On Excel Or With An HR Software (Which We Have)
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#39 Who's Worse - The Manager Or The Racist Customers?
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#40 No Words
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#41 Manager Tried To Get Me To Come In With Less Than An Hour Notice
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#42 Sickness Is Described As An "Offense". I Know This Is Tame Compared To A Lot Of The Stuff On Here, But The Passive-Aggressiveness Of My Manager Is Off The Scale
It makes me so angry. We’re all on minimum wage by the way
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#43 I Guess I Haven't Been Removed From The Email List Yet. After Terminating My Coworker For Going To A Funeral And Calling Me A Slur, They Send This
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#44 Won A Bet Against My Boss Nearly A Year Ago. Came Into Work To See That He Finally Paid Me. In Pennies
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#45 My Boss Puts Applesauce On His Pizza, Slaps Them Together And Eats It Like A Sandwich
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#46 I'm A Graphic Designer And My Boss Is Making Me Do Some Sus Things
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#47 My Former Boss Trying To Tell People They Have To Clock Out For Bathroom Breaks. Lol
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#48 Boss Gave Us Our "Holiday" Present In Her Washed Out Starbucks Cups. Gift Was Swissmiss, A Candy Cane, And Hershey Kisses
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#49 My Boss Fired Me For Taking One Of My Paid Sick Days
I worked there for 6 years. The next day she said I could continue working there if I took on more hours and stopped asking for a raise. I didn't respond. I got this message after I showed up to return my key and get my stuff. My new job pays better.
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#50 About A Year Ago I Got Let Go Of My Job And Decided To Hustle Making Music, This Is The Second Time My Ex-Boss Tries To Have Me Mention Him In A "Media Opportunity"
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#51 So I'm 5 Days Into My Covid Positive Reading And My Boss Sends Me This Because She's Short-Staffed And I'm Still Feeling Absolutely Ill
I'm in Florida for winter break and she's back in NC meaning I would have to fly while covid positive.
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#52 My Manager Taped A Piece Of Paper To A Clipboard
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#53 My Manager Asked For Me To Buy Her An Muffin, Saw It In The Trash A Few Minutes Later
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#54 This Is How My Boss Decided To Organize Our Color Chips
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#55 Sad That This Is The World We Live In
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#56 Husband Thought His Boss Gave Him Money For His Birthday
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#57 The Way My Manager Opens The Milk Cartons
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#58 My Old Boss And This Review Describes Him In A Typical Manner
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#59 My Old Boss Ladies And Gentlemen. I See Updates From Him On My Feed Once Every Few Hours. It Never Stops
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#60 Manager Won’t Let Mom Who’s Son Is On Life Support Request Time Off
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#61 Gave My Notice Just Over A Week Ago Due To A New Job
Got this text message from my manager today in the middle of the day. I worked here for 5 years. After my reply, she decided everything will be shipped.
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#62 I’m 41 And Job Hunting, Applied At A Large Fast-Casual Restaurant Chain For An Entry-Level Position. The Manager Sent Me This The Next Day
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#63 What Do You Guys Think? Should I Go To Work In 3 Hours When My Boss Texts Me At 5 In The Morning?
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#64 I Was Fired Immediately After Bringing Up That I Was Paid Over 2 Hours Less Than What I Worked. My Boss Left One Of The Paystubs Out Of His Math And Tried To Say I Was Paid Too Much
Fired from my first ever job today on my birthday. It was for "having an attitude at work".
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#65 Made My Boss A Custom Water Bottle And Told Him To Hand Wash It. He Put It In The Dishwasher
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#66 Got A Significant Raise A Few Days Ago. Boss Messaged Me Today
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#67 I'm Allergic To Peanuts, Which Is Well Known In My Office. Every Time My One Boss Gets Dessert (Even For My Birthday), She Gets Something With Peanuts
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#68 My Boss Gave Me A Coffee
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#69 This Is The Device We Use To Play Music At Work While The Boss Gets A New Car, Goes On Vacation, And Breaks Ground For A Pool At His House
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#70 My Boss Went On An Angry Rant About How I Use A Mouse, So I Thought It’d Fit Here
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#71 Manager Made This Mess And Made Me Pick It Up, I Do It And When I Come Out She’s Sitting On A Counter Facetiming Someone And Blasting Music
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#72 Illiterate McDonald's Store Manager Uses Shift Swapping Facebook Page To Reprimand Teens With Emotional Issues. "I Will Deal With You"
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#73 My Bosses Were Complaining About Me “Standing Around” Towards The End Of A 10hr Serving Shift
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#74 Not Doing Other’s Work Is Lazy And Arrogant
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#75 My Boss Sent Me This
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#76 I Quit A Horrible Job Cleaning Houses After 3 Days
I was given terrible equipment and was falsely told I’d be scheduled more than enough time to get my work done each day. They tried to only pay me for 2 hours! After arguing with her for 30 minutes via text she agreed to pay me 8 more hours.
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#77 After This The Business Grew So Much (P.S. 7 Person Company)
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#78 I'm A Substitute Teacher. This Was On The Fridge In The Teacher's Lounge
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#79 This Is Basically What My Boss Tried To Get Rid Of Me Over
I told him painting and colour matching isn’t an exact science that if I don’t know the exact colour and base I could be a shade off and have to paint corner-to-corner but never believed or never took the time to think cause I’m a dumb dumb painter and I don’t know anything. Modern furniture is becoming more like painted tones and not wood colours, I’ve said this and I’ve told him to let me paint this, it’s just like kitchen cabinets scuff and roll on with good paint but he won’t let me cause this is furniture and I’m a painter and the furniture guys get paid more. Bro, I don’t care about the money I just need my hours and I’m not gonna say “I told you so” just let me help you out I’m a freaking team player. But no this piece is gonna sit there you are gonna buy 3 colours of paint, and yell at the 19-year-old new guy “I don’t need another gallon of wrong paint”.
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#80 A Basic Human Need Is Not Allowed For Cashiers
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#81 Quarantine Or Not This Is What And How My Boss Eats
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#82 Manager Sent This Two Minutes After He Made His Request. Notice The Timestamps
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#83 Apparently My Manager Thinks This Is A "Motivational" Sign To Keep Up Morale In The Workplace
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#84 One Of My Coworkers Keeps Going On His Phone And Our Boss Refuses To Write Him Up. This Is The Assistant Manager's Solution
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#85 That “No”
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#86 My Boss’s Concern For My Health Is So Touching
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#87 From My Boss, While I Was On Vacation. My Immediate Reaction Was "Screw You Dude". This Makes Me Want To Quit
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#88 Texted My Boss I Couldnt Make It In Today
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#89 My Boss Writes Notes On His Hand And Photocopies It For Later
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#90 Someone At My Job Tested Positive For Covid, I Just Contracted A Cold. This Is How My Manager Responds To Asking For Sick Time Off
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#91 My Christmas Gift From My Boss. Fortune 500 Company. No Christmas Bonus, Post It Notes, 2 Pieces Of Chocolate, Pen, Jeans One Day
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#92 Today My Boss Had Me Move A Bird Nest That Was In A House Under Construction, The Babies Will Die
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#93 Day 1 Of UK Lockdown And Apparently, Repairing The Boss' Car Is 'Essential Work' Who Knew?
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#94 My Boss Supplied This PPE Shield. The Rubber Bands And Scotch Tape Should’ve Held It Together, Right?
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#95 My Boss's Son Just Called Me For Seemingly No Reason At 3:24 In The Morning. I Have To Be Up In Three Hours To Work On A Weekend When I'm Salaried And Get No Benefit From It
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#96 Had Someone Walk Out On A $485 Order (2/3 Frozen, The Rest Refrigerated). A Coworker Was Given The Go-Backs To Do Asap Even Though I Volunteered
At the end of my shift, boss rolls up with tons of damaged goods - turns out my coworker hid the basket in apparel. But I was the one who got reamed for it.
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#97 Go Home Management. You're Drunk
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#98 Quit My Job At A Nearby Airport Due To Safety Concerns And Severe Unprofessionalism, Been Trying To Get My Final Paycheck Of $1000+ For Over Two Weeks Now
Former boss has cut all communication with me and I'm blocked from even contacting the company.
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#99 Old Boss Can't Wait Until People Are Desperate Enough To Work For Scraps Again
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#100 Gave Notice In Advance, Boss Completely Forgot About It. I Am Already Off The 19th. How Generous
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#101 Bro
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#102 I Work At A Small Salon, Just Went Under New Ownership 2 Months Ago. The Paranoid Owner Thinks Everyone Must Be Talking About Her At All Times. She Posted This On The Fridge
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#103 My Friend Sent Me This Text Of What She Said To Her Work Gc
She may have Covid but she hasn’t gotten her results back yet. She was just keeping them updated and letting them know how she was feeling. Her boss responds with this. I think that’s completely unacceptable and unprofessional for him to say.
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#104 “My Boyfriend Attacked Me”, “You Still Need To Come Into Work” Long Story Short
I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me. When I confronted him, he attacked me, attempting to choke me. I immediately told my manager I would be late as I didn’t feel safe. Here’s her response. She also stole tips.
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#105 When Someone Needs Off For A Funeral That Is Of A Different Culture
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#106 A Message I Got From My Boss
It's about me and a coworker switching shifts because the new schedule inconveniences both of us and she is a single mother with no 2 days off in a row, I'm gonna quit with the same wording.
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#107 My Boss Likes To Hide Behind Notes Instead Of Talking To Us. Today We Found This
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#108 Asked My Boss For Time Off. Checked My Work Schedule, And He Didn’t Allow It. Not Even For The Doc Apt
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#109 I Work At A Public Library, My Supervisor Keeps Asking Me To Log My Activities Every 30 Min. What Is Up With This?
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#110 My Managers At The Office Don't Understand How To Use Memes
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#111 Boss Forcing An Employee To Attend A Sunday Picnic
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#112 My Boss Wanted Me To Come In On My Day Off To Fix The Computer. I’m Not Salary, To Hell With That
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#113 An Excerpt From A Letter My Boss (Who Hasn't Been In The Office For 2 Weeks) Sent Me Explaining Why My Graphic Design Job Can't Be Done Remotely In Our Area's "Stay At Home" Order
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#114 El Presidente For Boss Of The Year
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#115 Land Of The Free. Unless You’re Taking The Bus, Then You’re Fired
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#116 Provide Good Service. Do Your Best To Treat The Custom As You Would Any Other Customer. Ask Them What They Are Shopping For, And Help Them Find What They Are Looking For
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#117 What Would You Do If You Walked Into Work And Saw This
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#118 Scare Tactics At A Corporate Gas Station
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#119 Must Replace Uniforms Worn Out Thanks To Work Ipads
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#120 Free Soda At Work
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