Winning responses to Horrible Bosses survey



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Here are some of the winning responses of 25 words or less, to our Horrible Bosses survey.

I once worked for a horrible boss who…

…locked a school group tour in the walk-in freezer of McDonalds.
 
…would ask us to pick something up that he had dropped, only so that he could look up our skirts or down our tops.
 
…slept with my (now ex) wife.
 
…asked my wife out on a date and when she said no he fired me.
 
…asked me to wear to work a top that said…”five cougars thanks!”
 
…would hold her hand in front of my face and say “stop talking and listen to me” whenever I tried to talk to her.
 
…is so horrible that I take a non-dated resignation letter with me everyday, just in case.

…made me paint his house and babysit kids instead of training me!

…thought devotion was an 80’s rock band and leadership was the ship at the front of a fleet of ships.

Of those surveyed, 61 per cent claimed to have been bullied at work by a boss while 12 per cent had experienced sexual harassment and 37.5 per cent said their boss had asked them to something unethical or dishonest.

Read about the results of the survey here.

CareerOne, August 2011.