14 : " My Bos made us bring our own crapper report to work . "
Previously, we spoke abouta woman whose boss demanded she work a last-minute shift or be fired, so she quit. Inspired, dozens of members of theBuzzFeed Community weighed inwith their own similar stories involving the most unfair or ridiculous request they received from their boss.
Here’s what they shared:
1.“I was uploading a Pride month post and had chosen a generic office picture to accompany it, which happened to have a person in a wheelchair in it (amongst a load of able-bodied looking people).”
" I was asked to remove said moving picture because ' it wait like we ’re seek to say gay people are disabled . ' I reckon that say more about say elderly person than anything else . I obviously refused to remove the image . "
– julie - anneg
2.“I put my holiday in for a festival, and my boss came in the next day having booked his holiday that same week. We were a small shop; only one staff member could be off at a time. He actually admitted, when he saw I’d booked my time off, that he was in the wrong and should have checked the holidays that had been booked before paying for his own.”
" But he then expected me to rearrange my particular date or pay the fee for him to rearrange his own holiday . I did neither , as I ’m certain you’re able to imagine . I did , however , post plenty of photos of me all over my socials that weekend of me having spate of lovely fun in the Dominicus , rock out to my faves . "
– garebehr
3.“I was working at the hospital in admissions and doing fertility treatments. Several women in our department were pregnant and going on leave. My boss comes up to me and tells me I couldn’t get pregnant.”
" I go off on him , say him he had no right to say that to me . I was so appalled that he would say that to someone who was struggle to conceive . I plough him into Human Resources , and he claimed he was joking . My husband told me if I was uncomfortable work with him to quit . I turn in my resignation a few day later . "
– Debby Cirelli
4.“I work for a pediatrician and had to translate because there was a language barrier between the patient’s family and the doctor.
" Right as we cease the consult , my knob / doctor secernate me to distinguish the affected role they smelled seriously . I assure her I would n’t be say that and walk away . "
– slyghost733
5.“Hurt my knee while cleaning at work and was asked not to file for worker’s comp.”
" This was when I was a teenager and did n’t know well . I was n’t offered any sorting of compensation for it at all . Ended up having to go to forcible therapy . "
– adtime
6.“While managing an apartment building, I found a tenant who had sadly unalived himself, and instead of calling the proper clean up people, the new owners wanted me to clean up the blood and bodily fluids myself and start showing the apartment asap.”
" I give up after they tried to chevvy me into doing the cleaning . "
– hiddenorc25
7.“This was in the 1970s. My mom once worked with one of the worst sexist chauvinist pigs. Well, one day he told her she had to go with him out of town.”
" She told him she could n’t go because she had young nestling at habitation and he said if she could n’t go , she was fired . Luckily , she generate a well whirl with a female boss . She ply into that man afterwards and he asked her how her novel job was , and she said , ' It ’s the best decision I made ! '
A footer : this guy is now married to one of my mom ’s very domineering congeneric . dearest watching him squirm at large folk gathering ! "
– crafty_gm
8.“This happened when I was 20, working a minimum-wage retail job.”
" I was on tiffin when I match my phone and check I had so many message asking me if I ’d heard from my sister ; there was a shooting at her school . I was sob uncontrollably when a coworker found me . I could n’t babble out , so I showed her the textbook . She drop behind me onto the sales floor to find our political boss so she could secernate her what happened and have her send me nursing home . After she told her , our chief looked me in the eyes and said , ' There ’s nothing you’re able to do if you go home . You ’ll stay and finish your shift ' with zero emotion . I was so appalled I stopped holler . "
– Anonymous
9.“My boss asked me to do the online defensive driving course FOR HIM!!! He’s a real piece of work!”
10.“The new owner of my store owned two others of the same kind. The General Manager at one of the other stores needed to step down, so the owner and my store manager decided that I was the only one who could handle it and I ended up transferring. My first day there, almost every employee showed up late to their shift.”
" Two of the employee stop up getting into a engagement in front of customers . perdition , the high schoolers that work night shift were more capable than the adults . To top it all off , they were only proceed to give me a dollar wage hike to deal with all this . I decided it was definitely not deserving it and was squeamish enough to put in a month ’s notice for them to find a replacement . One dark , I let a call from the owner where he told me that I could not resign , and that I CHOSE to take the job , and that I owe it to them to remain . I lost it on him and tell him the precise date for my last day . They did n’t chance a replacement until two days before my last . The guy lay off after two weeks . "
– marveloussmoothie83
11.“I was ordered to drive around during a blizzard to pick up my five coworkers since the buses weren’t running and the boss was leaving for vacation. It was my second day.”
12.I was the closing assistant manager for a Chick-Fil-A.”
" My great - grannie was ready to say her adios and got to , to every phallus of the sept except for me , who had the shutting shift that night . "
– PattyNev
13.“Had a boss at a pizza place that had me clean the coils in a cooler. No big deal. I was new. I’ll do anything. He gave me the chemicals to do so and left. After cleaning, I noticed my hands, arms, and knees were burning.”
" Went to ask him about it . He informed me , ' Those chemicals are corrosive and will deplete you alive . ' Needless to say , I wish he had differentiate me rather . "
– silvermeat31
14.“My boss made us bring our own toilet paper to work.”
– crispyknight526
15.“I was to receive a very well deserved promotion after about a year and a half of very hard work, sometimes overtime and sometimes underpaid. I couldn’t wait for a raise and better responsibilities. My boss however had other plans. I came into work early at the last day of the work year and instead of a promotion, my boss handed me a mop.”
" He told me that since I arrived before the custodian , I would have to clean up a carpeting spill near the front office . I was dead maddened at him and told him then and there that I had been working there long enough to get to a better blank space , not to be in kick of the cleanup position , as that was well below my expected and current pay gradation . He then had the AUDACITY to say that my ' burst ' raise I did n’t deserve the promotion . ( May I add that my boss is an sheer d**k and hat everyone that does n’t sop up up to him . )
… I shoved the mop into his hands and tell him to do it himself , I quit . That was the dependable decision I made and I do n’t regret it one bit . I am now working my way up in a much secure and respectful company . "
16.“The heater went out, and he asked me to go on the snow-covered roof to reset it. I’m a receptionist.”
17.“It was Christmas Eve. My boss called me and another coworker, and we went to his house at 1 a.m. to set up a trampoline because his kids still believed in Santa Claus.”
" He came outside after an minute and told us ' good job ' and apply us a bottle of water each . He quit two month later . "
– Peter Deutz
18.“I work as a radiographer. The job required four weeks' notice to leave. I gave them six, so they had as much notice as possible to advertise for my replacement. A few hours after handing my notice in, I was summoned to the manager’s office. It was a big department, so there were two male duty managers who were easily double my age then. They told me that they had already done the Christmas rota (Christmas was the week after I was due to leave), so it didn’t suit them for me to leave, and they were going to call my new job and negotiate my start date to after Christmas.”
" untried me honestly reckon they were joking , but safe to say they were n’t . I was too intimidated to challenge them there and then . I gave them more than enough notice , maintain the end of my contract bridge , and the fact the Christmas rota would involve to be changed was their problem , not mine . "
19.“Working as a realtor, you are required to pass an ethics exam every other year.”
" My agent , who have our franchise , asked me to take the ethics course and communicate the test for him . He offer me $ 100 to buy the farm an moral philosophy course . "
20.“Worked in an office for a construction company on a military contract. The company would let pretty much anyone operate the big trucks and heavy equipment with or without a license. I kept my mouth shut as I was told. Until there was an accident, and I was told to lie outright to the inspector and say that someone else who was licensed was driving at the time.”
" To make matters worse , the driver was a 16 - twelvemonth - older illegally employ and not even de jure able-bodied to be on a mental synthesis site . So not only were his combat injury kick the bucket to be swept under the rug and get him eff , but the driver that I was supposed to say was driving would have that on his record as well . And I could have even been arrested for lie about it . Needless to say , that was the last chaff , and when I refused , I was fired on the smudge . "
21.“I hit my head badly on the job once, and my boss wanted me to keep working rather than go to the doctor.”
" I severalise her to deal with it and went to the doctor ( which I paid for out of pocket ) , and it was indeed a concussion . "
22.“I worked in a preschool, and my school was a large school broken down into three buildings. My building hosted four classrooms with a total of 57 students ages ranging from 1 to 4 years old. Our building had co-directors, which means not one, but two people in charge. One was the best friend of our senior management’s sister, and the other was a ditz. Between the two of them, I don’t know who was worse: S, or N. N would screw up constantly, and S always had her back without question.”
" We had a case of head lice in our 3 - year - old room , which spread throughout the course of study and to our 1 - year - old room . It bide for the better part of six weeks because N told us we could n’t send children home with live lice and/or nit present , as it was schoolhouse insurance policy they could stay . We adjudicate say her that was not the insurance and she observe forcing us to not call parents to pick up their child with promontory lice . She also evidence us we did n’t need to check their head upon arrival and that they were fine with lice and nits present . This was a major violation of both DHFS rules , and had licensing found out about this , our center would confront a write - up and a amercement . We set about to convert N otherwise , but all she did was argue , so we permit the chips shine and catch as parents complained to senior direction , who lamentably ignored N ’s leadership behaviour . "
