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Have you ever come across a toxic boss? If not, count yourself lucky. Many people who are in employment suffer in silence because of toxic and mean bosses, and some end up quitting for the sake of their mental health.Securing a new job is one of the best things. But many only realize it\u2019s not all rosy when they discover they are in a toxic environment. That\u2019s when anxiety and stress kicks in, and many choose their peace of mind over money. These employees shared their worst stories on Reddit of working for toxic bosses. Some who couldn\u2019t stand them and got fired; others simply quit! Let\u2019s check out what they had to say.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. I Walked Away with a Better Jobu\/invisible_23: I worked for this guy at an ice cream store. He kept cutting my hours for arbitrary reasons, so I got another job and put in my two weeks\u2019 notice.Halfway through my two weeks\u2019 notice, I got the flu and tried to call in. The guy told me he would fire me if I didn\u2019t go to work. So I showed up, and he told me I wasn\u2019t being \u201ccheerful enough\u201d for the customers. So I looked at him, said nothing, grabbed my bag, and walked out the door. At this point, he followed me and threatened to call my new job and tell them I was a terrible employee. I called my new job to give them a heads-up. They said, We don\u2019t care, you\u2019re hired. Feel better, we\u2019ll see you Monday.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Declining a Promotion Led to a Workplace Nightmareu\/norcat: Back in the day, when I was still a retail employee at university, I worked in a gift shop that the owner and a manager ran. The owner was more hands-off and came in occasionally to take care of cash and paperwork, while the manager dealt more with the operation\/staff side of things.The owner loved me because I was young, quick to learn, and only talked back if something was wrong. The manager who hired me loved me, too, because even though she\u2019d see me waste time occasionally, I still got things done in less time than other employees. Anyway, the manager who hired me left, and the owner asked me if I wanted to take on the position. I declined because I was going to school and wouldn\u2019t make a career out of retail. So, the owner hired another manager. I think a coworker must have told her I was asked to fill the position before she got hired, so my existence threatened her. Even after all the talk about how I had no desire to be the manager, she would do little nitpicky things to get me to look bad. It was no skin off my back. I did as told and ignored her when she berated me in front of customers, coworkers, etc. The only time she wasn\u2019t annoying was when the owner was around. Then, she developed some inferiority complex about her lack of post-secondary education and started making snide remarks about how spoiled, entitled, and ignorant university students were. Still no skin off my back until one day, she scheduled me for a shift when I\u2019d booked it off for exams. I didn\u2019t show up, and she called (in the middle of my exam) to let me know I was fired for a no-show.The owner tried to fix it and asked me to come back, and I told her that since summer was coming up anyway, it\u2019d be best if I explored other opportunities related to my degree. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. From an Unsupportive Workplace to a Better Paycheck u\/ArrenPawk: My girlfriend gave birth to a beautiful baby girl in January. Her maternity leave was up in April, so we were tasked with figuring out what to do regarding work schedules and babysitting. I asked my bosses if it was possible for me to work from home two days out of the week. I was a copywriter; I could work as long as I had a computer. They said no and offered no other alternative, assuming that letting me work from home would set a bad precedent for the rest of the company.The graphic designer on our team worked from home full-time. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, one of the employees in sales had recently moved across the country to Wisconsin and was allowed to work remotely from there. I quit and ended up with a job that pays $10K more, has full, paid benefits, and, more importantly, a boss who knows what she\u2019s doing. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. My Toxic Boss Prioritized Work over My Health u\/CrabFarts: My boss repeatedly screamed at me for over an hour. He wanted me to gather information, some online, but we had dial-up, and I wasn\u2019t allowed to tie up the only phone line. Also, I couldn\u2019t work from home (where we had regular internet access) because the company didn\u2019t trust employees to work from home. On my last day (though I didn\u2019t know it when I walked in that day), I had a doctor\u2019s appointment, which I had emailed him about, but he claimed never to have gotten it. He\u2019d emailed me about having a meeting the same morning, which I never got. So when I got there after my appointment, I could tell he was pissed, which is usually a good sign to stay out of his way. Finally, we had one last all-out argument when he apparently couldn\u2019t contain himself any longer. At the end of the argument, he fired me. I\u2019ve never been happier than at my current job. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. The Violent Boss u\/eyesdown: My boss had a young Labrador that he kept locked in the upstairs flat above the pub for 23 hours a day, letting it walk around the garden and inside the pub after hours.It cut its tail open badly once, and rather than call the emergency vet, he brushed white paint over the wound to stop the bleeding. He never walked or gave it any training or toys to play with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He aggressively backed my little sister up against the wall while working there as a waitress to shout at her for giving too generous cheese portions on a cheese board he had refused to show her how to assemble. He was in a relationship with the cook and used to be violent towards her, once breaking her wrist in a fight in the kitchen and stealing her handbag so she couldn\u2019t get home. She ultimately got back her bag and drove away with one hand, running his foot over as he tried to stop her. <\/strong>
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6. This One Took Advantage of Young Girls u\/calepto: I worked in retail under an awful supervisor a few years back. He would constantly hit on the young girls and treat the young guys like absolute crap when he saw them as a threat to his \u201cgame.\u201dI remember walking back to a project from the bathroom and stopping for only two minutes to chat with a girl I was friends with. As I walked up, he shouted, \u201cIs this the bathroom? No? I didn\u2019t think so.\u201d He proceeded to stare at me until I walked away.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Surviving Unfair Treatment u\/kotaacub:\u00a0First, I\u2019d like to preface this by saying I work for a small yet well-known after-school care program. We have nine staff members total, and everyone is relaxed.I got hired at 16, and my boss seemed super chill, except for the fact that I have autism and a seizure disorder, and I didn\u2019t like to be in places where a lot of screaming happens. I\u2019d worked there for two and a half years without an issue, other than this guy telling me repeatedly that I was not suited for this job and should find another one, constantly favoring his male coworkers over the females. (There was another member of staff who had Tourette syndrome. He got to take breaks whenever he wanted, for as long as he wanted, where I had to fight for a five-minute break after I\u2019d had a seizure) Anyway, I got hired on for the summer to work in the lunchroom, and the guy started coming in with a megaphone and yelling into it to get the kids to scream, knowing I could not handle loud noises. I was also required to move equipment myself; even our stronger members could only move with assistance. I got written up when I had a meltdown or asked for help moving the equipment. Also, after he quit suddenly and we got our great new boss, we found out he refused to let someone leave. When she had come to him to hand in her two weeks\u2019 notice, he wouldn\u2019t take it and told her he would bad mouth her to everyone who called him if she left.She Acted Friendly to Others and Mean to Me u\/sowhatsoplenty: A few years ago, I got a job as a bartender for a restaurant. I started my first day and met a new guy who was also hired. I got there and was sent upstairs to be a waitress. I\u2019ve never waitressed before; I applied to be a bartender. The new guy has never worked behind a bar and has waiting experience but is told to go behind the bar. There are two managers; the one who hired me wasn\u2019t there, so I asked the other. She tells me that the girls work as waitresses and the guys as bartenders. I was a bit annoyed but figured the other manager would fix it when he was there (he didn\u2019t)! Anyway, I learned waitressing was not for me.I\u2019m terrible at it! The female manager was getting so frustrated with me, making me more flustered and worse at my job because she constantly shouted at me over my shoulder. Meanwhile, the guy at the bar who\u2019s never poured a pint before is left alone and making mistakes, and she\u2019s also shouting at him. One night, he was left alone, and a group came in and asked for mojitos. He wasn\u2019t taught how to make them and had no drink guides, so I jumped on the bar and helped him. As I\u2019m helping him, the manager spots me behind the bar, loses the plot, and starts screaming at me in front of everyone; it is degrading. What made it worse was that everybody else working there loved her, and she\u2019d invite everyone to parties in front of me and be nicey nicey to everyone. I was fired by the manager, whom I\u2019d never seen, because of the feedback from the female manager. 9. The worst boss ever Deleted user: My coworker Mary always worked an extra 15-30 hours a month, making everyone\u2019s life easier. She\u2019s the kindest soul, a real angel. Her drive? Supporting her three kids after her husband left her. Yesterday, for the first time in years, she was late to work\u2026 by a whole two hours! Her eyes were red, she looked shattered (clearly cried all night). Our entire office was comforting her, and then our boss, John, walks in. John: \u201cHOW COULD YOU BE TWO HOURS LATE?! I\u2019M ISSUING YOU A WARNING! ONE MORE TIME AND YOU\u2019RE FIRED!\u201d The whole office was in shock! Such unfairness! But then,Mary stands up and says to John, \u201cHOW DARE YOU, YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL I WAS LATE BECAUSE YOU left me and our children and offer no help. I have to take them to school, do the laundry, clean, and cook all by myself! I\u2019m forced to work more just to make ends meet.(We were all shocked. Nobody had any idea that John was her ex-husband who had abandoned her.) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. The Confused and Unfit Boss u\/[deleted]: I had a boss who constantly gave wildly conflicting instructions. We\u2019d all do something the first way; then, she would get angry and tell us to do it differently. She\u2019d insist we ask questions if we had any, and then she would get angry when we did ask questions. Then, we would get instructions from managers above her on how to do something new, and she would instruct us to do the exact opposite. That lasted until her managers would tell her to tell us we were doing it wrong, so she\u2019d yell at us for messing up and ask us to do it the original way again. Then, every Friday, she would give us an hour-long speech about what a horrible job we were all doing, and then she\u2019d keep firing people until she found the team she wanted. She would follow that up with how much she loved and respected us. The following Monday, we\u2019d find that she fired ten people over the weekend. This lasted for two months before she was removed from the project by her superiors, who realized she was not suitable for the position. 11. Unsympathetic Supervisor u\/[deleted]:\u00a0One of many was when I informed my supervisor that I had received news that my grandfather passed away that morning. For months, I had told my supervisor of my grandfather\u2019s health conditions.So, news of him passing away shouldn\u2019t have been that big of a surprise. I asked for the next few days off to help with arrangements and to be with my family. My supervisor says, \u201cWhy? They\u2019re not burying him tomorrow. \u201cI responded, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if he is buried tomorrow or not; my family needs me.\u201d Thankfully, I\u2019m no longer at that job. I\u2019ve had other terrible supervisors from various jobs, but that still sticks out.12. Battling Bias with a Hostile Boss u\/[deleted]: I worked at a Scout Camp a few years back, and I had a director who, from day one, had it out for me. The first day, he told me to put my stuff in a cabin that didn\u2019t exist, then yelled at me when I wasn\u2019t unpacked an hour later. Then, later in the summer, he decided that he was unsatisfied with my ability to run, so he woke me up before the crack of dawn, sent me out to the mile-long parking lot, and told me to start running laps and only stop when he told me to. He stuck around for about twenty minutes, told me that if I stopped while he was gone, I would get a write-up, and then left for breakfast. I kept struggling up and down that hill for three hours and was only relieved of my dangerous punishment after one of my other directors pulled up in his truck and asked why I wasn\u2019t at my program area. Then, later in the summer, he wrote me up for being groggy and unenthusiastic at breakfast, then wrote me up again a week later for \u201cleaving the camp without signing out\u201d even though I had been in my cabin all night. And then, at the end of summer, he decided that he never wanted to see my face ever again and tried to blacklist me for allegedly smoking pot on the reservation, even though I had spent my entire night in my cabin reading a book.When they sent him to direct another camp, and my blacklisting mysteriously was reneged. The guy never got a word of reprimand for it, and I swear that if I ever see him out in public, I will punch him in the back of the head. 13. Karma Hits Back Deleted user: So, I\u2019m 66 and have been with this company for 30 years. Then, I got seriously sick. Boss: \u201cProve you\u2019re sick.\u201d I send him my diagnosis and doctor\u2019s note. Boss: \u201cYOU\u2019RE LYING! Get to the office now.\u201d Me: \u201cCan\u2019t, doc advised rest and staying home.\u201d Boss: \u201cThen you\u2019re fired. Come in later to sign your termination papers.\u201d Me: \u201cBut I\u2019m just 5 months away from retirement, don\u2019t do this!\u201d Boss: \u201cDon\u2019t care, you\u2019re fired. Come and sign the termination letter.\u201d Me: \u201cHmm.. Okay.. Wait for it.. Be ready..\u201d 5 days later, I wake up to 30 missed calls from my boss. I call back.Boss (panicked): \u201cTAKE IT BACK, OUR COMPANY NEVER DID THAT!!!I laughed and said, \u201cOops\u2026 looks like someone anonymously sent a letter to the police with all the evidence of your shady dealings\u2026\u201d Boss: \u201cTAKE IT BACK! IMMEDIATELY!!!\u201d Me: \u201cNo way! Should\u2019ve thought twice before treating me like that!\u201d Ten days later, the boss got fired, I was reinstated, and all my colleagues kept their jobs. KARMA HITS BACK! BONUS. The Perfectionist Boss u\/speechlesspoetry:\u00a0I worked as a receptionist for a couple of months, and if one thing was out of place in the entire lobby, my boss would yell at me.She would do this repeatedly, and I never understood why. Sometimes, when things were out of place in the lobby, I didn\u2019t have the energy to get up and fix it, and she kept saying I was wasting money. One week, I grabbed chairs and purposely messed them up, tip over trash cans with small amounts of garbage, and so on. That week, I got paid $80 less. I checked all my checks and realized that the more the lobby was messed up, the less I got paid. Once I confronted her about it and she gave me the money back. She was so petty and rude.Irrespective of our ranks, every human needs to be treated with respect. Plus, treating someone badly doesn\u2019t make you feel any better. In any case, a toxic work environment only lowers employees\u2019 productivity and performance, which equates to low revenue for the company. But a healthy workplace means a happy employee, a satisfied customer, and better business.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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