Stupid Bosses

November 21, 2008

My boss yelled at me today, and I DO mean yelled.

He repeatedly said I was a “effing moron”. (censored for online purposes of course). Then he called me an “incompetent moron”.

Then he sent me an email and said he gives me “simple instructions that even a complete moron could follow”.

He accuses me of the most weird random stuff. Things that I did not do at all. Things that are so weird, its almost frightening to see into this man’s mind and anxiety.

I work for a small, privately owned business wherein im the only other person in the office. Times are hard, the economy is horrible and I need this job, but i cannot survive….not with a hostile work environment like this.

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November 12, 2008

Is it legal for your boss to start you at a wage, make you accountable for more and more work, then decrease your wage?

My boss started me at a certain wage which we never really agreed upon. He told me (within reason) to name my wage. He said its easier to pay employees a good solid wage and keep them around for a long time, than to give them poor wages and have a quick turn over.

Well, he started me at a certain wage which wasnt really want I asked for (a bit lower). Then we had a change in payroll and I noticed I was earning LESS than I normally made.

Months later, and I mean months……. I saw a $1 decrease per hour on my pay check and my boss did NOT notify me. This might be legal but its not ethical. I’m glad I actually paid attention to my pay stub. Im sorry but $1 per hour less is significant when you take into consideration gas prices and all.

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November 6, 2008

My ex boss had me driving every day to different jobsites saying that he would reimburse me for gas. He also had me do non-related work like mowing his lawn and what not. I have yet to recieve a payment, and it has been over a year now since I have worked for him. To be exact, I drove nearly 3500 miles for work purposes, not including home to work type driving, and wasted my hard earned money on gas on his behalf. $7.00 an hour does not work well with gas, or vehicle servicing costs, even when you are a DIYer.

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November 3, 2008

I worked as a copy editor for a real estate magazine and my boss was a horrible person. She’d not only follow me to the bathroom to make sure that was where I was going, but she’d listen into my phone calls, yell at me for not telling her about my private life (Seriously…she yelled down the hall I had no life when I told her I wasn’t dating anyone in particular). She’d also ask me if I was pregnant every time I had a doctor’s appointment.

I would have told HR, but the ONE person in HR (it was a small company) had made a racist remark at a company lunch and when I complained to her, she ignored my requests to talk for 2 weeks…and then refused to apologize saying that no one else said anything, so I must be “overly sensitive.”

I stayed for a year but quit after coming in 5 minutes late from lunch to my boss ranting and raving that I was a thief, stealing from the company and that I was “walking on thin ice, young lady”

No one calls me young lady unless they were part of my conception. I was out. My boss retired a month after I left. What a hag.

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