Who’s got the worst boss?

The AFL-CIO recently announced it’s annual “My Bad Boss” contest.

• An employee was demoted because it rained on the day of the company outing that she had planned. The boss later asked her to plan the company picnic. “Um. No.”
• The story about a boss who questioned a employee’s request to visit a  grandparent at his death bed defies reality. The boss said this, “I don’t know why you are worried about him, he is JUST your Grandfather and he is going to die anyway.”
• Another crazy story is about a fast food worker whose wife called, telling him to rush home because their house was fully engulfed in flames. The boss said that he couldn’t leave immediately, but could leave 15 minutes before the shift was done, “if it was slow.”
• I was amazed to read about the toy store owner, who stole from the “Toys for Tots” collection box at Christmas and restocked the shelves.
• How about the tyrant who threw away the disability paperwork for a man who had cancer and wouldn’t allow him to take his personal vacation time.
• The other was a boss who had employees vacate a smoke-filled workroom floor by seniority, ensuring that there was someone to answer the phone until the very end.
• One man says the office was kept so cold that the ink in his pen stopped flowing – and the boss suggested a pencil. 
• Every time another supervisor wanted to get the attention of his workers, he would throw a tool at them.
• Another boss offered to buy everyone in the office lunch – and instead pulled up to Costco and allowed them to ‘dine’ on the free samples.
• A pizzeria manager ordered a pregnant waitress to complete her shift even after she had gone into labor. She stayed and waited on customers and even made pizzas between contractions.