[.cnI redruM]

I can't help but wonder what sort of a jerk demotes someone in front of their kids. That's so evil and hateful I find it impressive.

[tfecw]

I wouldn't call it evil. If it was "Bring your kids to work day" and the boss made his rounds demoting and firing on that day, then that would be evil.

[PeterFinn]

Three times now I've found myself promoted over someone who was my boss and in each circumstance I have enjoyed the revenge.

[No Blue States]

A vice president whose ego was far larger than his own stature was furious when he found out days later that staff members changed his office caller I.D. to appear as Lord Farquaad, the 4-foot-tall evil ruler from the movie "Shrek."

LMAO!

[PeterFinn]

And the worst thing I've ever heard of was a coworker who put a pair of panties (used) on the passenger side of the bosses' convertible for his wife to find.

She did find it as we could tell from the divorce filing and the process server showing up at the office.

[Van Jenerette]

...interesting reading.

[Dad2Angels]

The Peter Principle is alive and well in America.

Once the folks in this group reach their level of incompetence they are so desperate to keep from being found out they become the 'boss from hell' they used to complain about and spend their days deflecting the blame they deserve and taking the credit they don't.

Then there are those who are just inherently vicious.

[KC_Conspirator]

Had subscriptions to fetish magazines sent to the office in their bosses' name.

What a great idea!

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

From my own experiences and reading stories like this for years, I don't think there has ever been a time in world history that so many incompetent morons have been in so many management positions.

[dljordan]

"Then there were the direct reports who decided to give their cheapskate boss his comeuppance by mocking up a $500 gift certificate to an expensive restaurant and sending it with a letter saying he was the winner of a promotional event. He invited friends, ran up a $600 bill, and then was told the restaurant would not accept the fake certificate."

That was a truly diabolical and beautiful trick.

[CORedneck]

Interesting article. Years ago back in H.S. I worked at a place called MCL Cafeteria back in Indiana. We got an assistant manager who was a real @$$. The Asst. Mgr had the same habits day in and day out. He would arrive at work at 7 am and have his coffee and read his paper in the back office. One of the guys slipped in ex-lax into his coffee while he stepped out real quick. Another guy later on in the day went into the bathroom and he was on the can. The Asst. Mgr made the comment that he has not been able to get off of the toilet all day. I would have enjoyed to be there when this transpired.

This Asst. Mgr would put on an impressive show when the bigwigs visited the restaurant such as picking up a dish rag to pretend to bus tables such as offering to take trays full of dirty dishes from the bus boys.

[jb6]

My first captain, as a new lieutenant, loved chewing out his lieutenants in front of their men. He did it to me several times, and the majority of the time I was not at fault for the issue. This happens when the "boss" doesn't inquire what's happening but just starts yhelling. He was short and had Nepolianic sydrome. What he didn't realize is that he looked like an arse and pissed the men off, destroying company moral.

Problem is, some people are on a power trip and firing/demoting/chewing others out in front of an audiance makes them think they are important.

An example of this: my platoon was late getting to our parent company staging area because the company I was cross attached to was late in completing its manuevers. Thus I couldn't get the tanks up and running as fast as the rest of the parent company that had been there half a day and had just released its cross attached company. The CO, who'd been missing in action, shows up, doesn't ask what happened (I'd passed the info to the XO since the CO was gone) and just starts screaming at me. Of course my men knew what happened and they were all pissed, especially the NCOs. Word travels fast.

I even had several of the other captains (COs each of them) tell me they felt sorry for me to be stuck in that company under that jackarse. But what can you do?

Now my next CO, I would have followed him on a mission into Hell, if he'd asked me to.

[Clemenza]

The great Stephen Bing has addressed this and other subjects more effectively.

[Kevin OMalley]

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