#1 Boss From Your Nightmares
As a teenager, I worked as a carryout helper at a garden store. During that summer, I helped folks load up pounds of sod, river stones, soil, plants, stones, and, in the winter, Christmas trees. I enjoyed the first year but, during the second year, a new boss made my life a living hell.
Sales were down and she joked about laying people off. There was no sympathy for below-freezing shifts and “sick days” weren’t acceptable. She was generally mean to everyone and made it so miserable that I was the only full-time carryout left. After getting a groin strain diagnosis from straining a muscle on the job, my manager responded to the doctor’s note prohibiting physical activity by screaming at me for causing her more work. In the end, the whole company went bankrupt a few years later and I heard that the awful boss was fired after nearly 60 people quit between June and October that year.