47 Shocking Confessions From Employees Who Uncovered Their Bosses’ Darkest Secrets
Monday morning? New email: “Personal phones are permitted at desks for emergency purposes.”
Back to normal then.
My manager pulled me into his office today. He went on about how I was being disrespectful to the team and that quitting during our busy season shows I don’t care about anyone but myself.
I’ve been here two years, never called out sick, covered shifts constantly, and trained every new hire. But apparently none of that matters because I chose to leave when it wasn’t convenient for him.
The kicker? He denied my PTO request last month for my sister’s wedding because we were “too short staffed.” Guess I should’ve just been more respectful of his scheduling needs.
I’m still leaving in two weeks. Just needed to vent because this whole “loyalty” thing only goes one way.
so this happened a few months ago. i work in product for a mid sized tech company, nothing fancy. i was leading a small internal project that basically fixed a mess that’d been costing us $$ every month. spent weeks working late, cleaning up data, building reports, the whole deal.
the day before the all-hands, my manager (let’s call him steve) suddenly asks me to “send over a quick summary” of what i did. cool, i think he’s just reviewing. turns out dude straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting…. same slides, same words, didn’t even change the file name.
the kicker? he said “my team helped a bit.” bro. helped a bit? i am the team.
i didn’t say anything right then, but a few weeks later our VP asked me for some follow up numbers. steve was on vacation, so i sent her the updated dashboard and casually mentioned “oh yeah, here’s the model i built from that analysis i shared earlier.” she goes “wait, you built that?”
long story short, VP wasn’t thrilled. next review cycle, guess who didn’t get credit for “strategic contributions”? not me, not this time.
what ive learnt is that document everything, keep receipts, and let management (like steve) hang themselves with their own powerpoint
a production department boss a few agencies ago got [cranky] about something that wasn’t the fault of anyone in his group. yelling at his folks
so being springtime, and being the sysadmin for that shop, I threw together a quick little remote script that would advance the clocks of the workstations for everyone in that group – except said boss – a few seconds here or there.
suddenly it’s a quarter after four on a Friday and everyone sees their Mac saying it’s five pm.
with great satisfaction I watch them all pack up and head out. one of the older ladies even mentioned how light out it was.
bossman groundhogs up from his cube utterly baffled why his whole group was suddenly gone.
(I did fess up my last day at that place.)
This happened yesterday. Boss schedules an emergency all-hands meeting, wouldn’t say what it’s about. We all show up thinking it’s something important.
Nope. Spent 20 minutes publicly calling out my coworker for “performance issues” before firing them in front of everyone. Just stood there and tore into them while we all watched.
The person was crying by the end. We were all uncomfortable as h**l but nobody knew what to do. Afterward the boss acted like it was totally normal and went back to their office.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Is this even legal? It felt like a power trip more than anything else. Now everyone’s on edge wondering if they’re next.
Looking for a new job starting today.
Wife’s story, but I thought I’d share because it made my day.
Tl;dr: Supervisor being investigated for favoritism and reprisal accidentally outs herself for reprisal.
My wife works at a union hospital and has a supervisor that has been coming after her for a while now. She’ll send my wife emails about errors that either didn’t happen or were someone else’s fault, “complaints” from patients with no paper trail, or even telling her what the complaint was specifically so she can correct it. Meanwhile, my wife’s co workers who make a lot of the errors she’s accused of aren’t getting emails about theirs.
This has been going on for a months and I told my wife to start documenting these incidents. She did, and has a pile of emails printed of the supervisor telling her she made an error, my wife responding by saying “no, that was co workers A” or “The system did that”, or “this was corrected as soon as the error occurred”, and then silence from the supervisor.
Separately, we just got married, and in the lead up to the wedding she had to miss a few scheduled shifts on short notice.
The good part: Once we get back from our vacation she has an email saying she is receiving an IM for attendance (Formal complaint from management). She was expecting to get suspended at best, maybe fired.
Myself and her coworkers told her NOT to go in that room without a union rep. She got 1 and went to the meeting. My wife tells them what the meeting is about and that she accepts that she called off too many times.
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