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Bad Bosses Getting Worse and Worse |
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Wednesday, 05 July 2006 |
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The list of bad boss behavior is long and growing longer. As part of the My Bad Boss Contest, sponsored by the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America, contestants from Maine to Honolulu are sending in descriptions of their spectacularly awful bosses. Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, along comes another doozie.
Visitors to the Bad Boss Contest can vote for their pick for the worst boss, and each weekly contest winner (the winner is the person who submits the story, not the boss) will receive a special prize and will be entered as finalists for the grand prize: a one-week vacation getaway and $1,000 toward air fare, compliments of Union Privilege. In one recent account, a worker writes about a previous boss who drank and became physically violent. When the worker refused the boss’s demand to work six days a week with no pay increase, the worker was fired. But as the worker sat in his parked car, he writes, the boss “comes at my car with a maglite, smashing my window.” The boss demanded the worker get out of the car, then grabbed a golf club from his trunk. The worker bolted out the other car door and ran down the road, chased by the boss toward the county prison. The worker notes: Funny thing is I was banging on the prison gate TRYING TO GET IN! A woman writes that her boss actually “wrote me up for being absent from work when I was two floors up having a surgery for a miscarriage!” She says she’s “never been treated so inhumanely or insensitively before or since.” There’s more. Much more. Read them all at the My Bad Boss Contest website. And if you have a boss from hell, enter the Bad Boss Contest and compete for a seven-day vacation provided by UnionPlus. You deserve it. |
