47 Shocking Confessions From Employees Who Uncovered Their Bosses’ Darkest Secrets
So this recently happened in my call center type job. My brand-new supervisor, promoted for all the wrong reasons, wasn’t exactly qualified. I could write a whole post on that but the gist is she only got promoted because she was friends with the boss and is always giving him advice on the women he dates.
Anyway, we had a Teams chat where we kept each other updated and asked for help with things. Normal procedure was simple: if you stepped away, we would typically just type “brb” so everyone knew you weren’t available for calls. Did this for years with no issues.
Well, new supervisor decides that’s not good enough. She needs to assert control and dominance. She announced to us in, one-on-one convos, that we all had to start giving specific reasons for why we were stepping away. I told her I wasn’t really comfortable announcing to the entire team every time I had to use the bathroom.
She basically shrugged and said, “It’s the rule. We need transparency so I know what everyone’s doing.”
Ok? We’ve had no issues for years, but whatever she says goes I guess.
The very next time nature called, instead of a boring “brb,” I typed: “BRB. Going to go P**p in the bathroom.”
Immediately she pmed me in Teams saying that was “not professional.” I reminded her she told us to be specific, and I was just following directions. After that, others started joining in. Some favorites were:
“BRB. Gonna stand in front of the urinal and do an impression of a water fountain”
“BRB. Going to blow my nose to try to dislodge this giant booger.”
Within a week, the supervisor started telling us we didn’t need to be so specific when stepping away from our desks. Like, yeah, we know.
A few years back I had a manager that insisted on micro managing his supervisors and sent numerous emails every day and insisted on a read receipt for each one. This was back in the days where blackberry phones were the normal and I knew he got a message through with the read receipt. I also figured out that I could read the emails without opening them. I used to save up 100 or so emails for him and would wait until I knew he was at a work event or at home and would click mark all as read on 100 emails at a time. This resulted in the manager getting a 100 emails through at the same time on his blackberry phone along with 100 notifications. After repeating this several times he finally dropped the read receipt and it felt a minor battle had been won against him.
Nearly 30 years ago I worked for the US National Sales company for a major automotive brand. I was in product planning working on the launch of new model vehicles but was junior level at the time. My boss was a real hard [b**t] on things and was the type that when he did something wrong then it was someone else’s fault or if it was a good thing that happened, he would take all the credit.
One Friday he dumped in my lap that a shipment of wheels and tires had to be sent to Europe for following Monday as part of a photoshoot. This was the same trip that he had previously denied my travel request to support the event. Also, he knew about these wheels and tires a week or more prior and I think he was trying to make me look bad by dumping it on me last minute. When i asked him about how I was supposed to get these packed and shipped for arrival in 2-days he told me to just get it done and not to bother him with the detail. Further, he wanted the wheels and tires back ASAP after the photoshoot. Trigger MC on this.
So I booked a flight to Europe and took the wheels and tires as over-sized luggage. I then rented a van, collected the wheels and tires, and took them to the photoshoot. I took care of business, hung around for the next two days and then took the wheels and tires back with me on return flight on Tuesday morning.
What was so sweet was that the executives on site were very impressed by my dedication to make the photoshoot a success. Apparently, one of the executives sent a note to my boss, praising my support in making the event work. To say my boss was [angry] at me was understatement. However, what could he do but take the credit as his plan? Shortly after this I was offered the role of as Vehicle Manager in Corporate Communications group which I gladly took, even though my boss tried to prevent it. My former boss was let go about 4 months later. Apparently, he had no one else to blame for his mess ups.
TL:DR: Boss tells me to take my lunch ONLY at X-Y hours when I was dealing with a “mission-critical” outage until the job was done. Later, I clock out during a VERY obvious “all hands on-deck” situation because boss complained the last time I answered the call.
The short version: Small business, this is my first IT job, but I have decades of blue collar experience. I was the first IT person the company ever hired; my associate’s in IT specializing in networking only a few gen-ed classes away. My boss kept the platters spinning, but he has no formal training or amateur desire; he wants to offload the tediousness.
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