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[Nikitas]

These eccentricities of managers are funny! They all forget that the true bosses of a company are the shareholders. I am sure if these practices were aired during the annual general meeting the shareholders would slap down these buggers. But then, how many employees bother to buy some shares in the company they work for and appear at the annual general meetings? Not many.

I worked for a major American multi national company which had 125 000 employees world wide. There was one asshole who recalled his assistant from his summer holidays just because he could do it, not for any substantial reason. The asshole eventually was returned to the USA, the assistant was snapped up by a French company as a sole rep for the whole of the Middle East.

[juliesewell]

I've always found female managers to be the worst...

One I worked for, you didn't speak to her in the morning unless she spoke to you first 'cos you never knew what sort of a mood she was in. Think she had PMT everyday!!

Strangely enough, I never had PMT and find it very difficult to understand - so God knows how women expect men to understand it...

Men are much easier to work for!

[olgaesplai]

hm. I am really lucky, i can even fight with my boss (man), i am free to explain my opinion, but ...is absolutly natural to make us to work during week-end (unpaid) and everyday i work one-two hours more as well.....so is payments for freedom:))

[Z4]

hm. I am really lucky, i can even fight with my boss (man), i am free to explain my opinion, but ...is absolutly natural to make us to work during week-end (unpaid) and everyday i work one-two hours more as well.....so is payments for freedom:))

I hate bosses that expect something for nothing. Freedom of speech is not enough here!

[GorillaGal]

i have had a few bad ones.
1. used to spen half the day in the bathroom with his porn mags, and the rest of the day, forced us to listen to genesis over and over and over.
2. a group of dentists i worked for had cocaine problems and you would find lines of coke in the stock room, and sometimes thier noses were covered with powder.
3. one of the worst--practiced dirty dentistry. he used the same instruments from one patient to the next. he would go into the bathroom and come out, and return to work on a patient and never change his gloves or wash his hands. i would tell you more, but there isn't enough space to write about him.
4. the next guy i worked for hired me to be the office manager. didn't give me a desk, i had to do my work sitting on the stairs. he made all these promises he never kept one of them. he'd call me "a**hole" in front of the staff/patients and then ask wonder why no one respected me. then he wanted to fire me and wanted me to interview the person that was going to replace me.
5. i worked for a dentist that was not only a specialist, he was also an attorney. he was so educated, he talked down to everyone. only people with little to no self esteeme could work for him. i didn't last long. he was the most difficult one to work for out of them all.

[Z4]

i have had a few bad ones.
1. used to spen half the day in the bathroom with his porn mags, and the rest of the day, forced us to listen to genesis over and over and over.
2. a group of dentists i worked for had cocaine problems and you would find lines of coke in the stock room, and sometimes thier noses were covered with powder.
3. one of the worst--practiced dirty dentistry. he used the same instruments from one patient to the next. he would go into the bathroom and come out, and return to work on a patient and never change his gloves or wash his hands. i would tell you more, but there isn't enough space to write about him.
4. the next guy i worked for hired me to be the office manager. didn't give me a desk, i had to do my work sitting on the stairs. he made all these promises he never kept one of them. he'd call me "a**hole" in front of the staff/patients and then ask wonder why no one respected me. then he wanted to fire me and wanted me to interview the person that was going to replace me.
5. i worked for a dentist that was not only a specialist, he was also an attorney. he was so educated, he talked down to everyone. only people with little to no self esteeme could work for him. i didn't last long. he was the most difficult one to work for out of them all.

You have worked for a bunch of morons GG

[Raymanoff]

well, i had just a couple of bosses... cant say anything bad about them, i always had my point of view and they always respected it... its been 4 years i am working for myself and there is nothing better than that... freedom.

[GorillaGal]

i have had a few bad ones.
1. used to spen half the day in the bathroom with his porn mags, and the rest of the day, forced us to listen to genesis over and over and over.
2. a group of dentists i worked for had cocaine problems and you would find lines of coke in the stock room, and sometimes thier noses were covered with powder.
3. one of the worst--practiced dirty dentistry. he used the same instruments from one patient to the next. he would go into the bathroom and come out, and return to work on a patient and never change his gloves or wash his hands. i would tell you more, but there isn't enough space to write about him.
4. the next guy i worked for hired me to be the office manager. didn't give me a desk, i had to do my work sitting on the stairs. he made all these promises he never kept one of them. he'd call me "a**hole" in front of the staff/patients and then ask wonder why no one respected me. then he wanted to fire me and wanted me to interview the person that was going to replace me.
5. i worked for a dentist that was not only a specialist, he was also an attorney. he was so educated, he talked down to everyone. only people with little to no self esteeme could work for him. i didn't last long. he was the most difficult one to work for out of them all.

You have worked for a bunch of morons GG

yeah i did, but i worked for 2 really good people. and then ther is my present boss, who is pretty damn wonderful!

[Nikitas]

Reading this thread it is clear that getting to management positions does not require either intelligence or hard work. If the morons described here became managers then something is wrong in the selection process.

[Crivens]

I had another boss who demanded his sales guys to work one hour over everyday (at least) and four hours during the weekends - unpaid!

Oh yeah, forgot that once the company was afraid of going under so they asked us to work 2 hours extra, unpaid, every single day, including the weekends, for about 3 months. The contracters, who were paid about 3-4 times as much (and tended to be reading C++ for morons books) didn't have to bother. In a totally unrelated matter, about half the company (about 40 people) walked out within a couple of months.

Reading this thread it is clear that getting to management positions does not require either intelligence or hard work

Sometimes it does. But good point none the less. Sometimes they give the job to someone who has worked hard for years. Unfortuantly that sometimes doesn't mean they are intelligent. They have just worked harder and longer than anyone else. Directors can also be stupid muppets too. I had a director once who was a very hard worker, and an extremely intelligent programmer, but micromanaged everything and had the people skills of a frightened Kangaroo.

If the morons described here became managers then something is wrong in the selection process

Overall people in higher positions almost always IMO are there because of who they know and not what they know. Luckily most of them have enough marbles (just) to pass off a acceptable enough standard of work once into the position. But it doesn't matter because unless they set the place on fire in front of everyone, then the funny handshake brigade aren't going to kick them out. It's probably something to do with inbreeding. I dunno... Once we had a brilliant manager, and the directors tried loads of ways to kick him out so the inexperienced, half brainless, just out of school son of the MD could take over. Some people are just too thick.

Cheers