Not all bosses are bad — many are compassionate, whip-smart and only too eager to share what they know with their employees. The best employers understand that if they can create a work environment that encourages open expression, creativity, hard work and cooperation, they’re laying down the foundation for an incredibly successful company.
But let’s focus for a minute on the other bosses: the ones who make employees feel like they’re marching into a pit of fire every Monday morning, can’t keep their emotions intact whenever something goes wrong and have absolutely no filter. We celebrate the worst bosses by giving you these 13 hilarious tweets posted by workers who are so done with their employers, mystified by their actions and words or simply have to keep laughing so they won’t break down and cry at their desks every afternoon. Bad bosses, we salute you (by poking fun at you, of course).
The late-meeting boss
There has never, in the history of work-related incidences, ever been a work-related incident worth discussing after 5 p.m. If this happens to you, proceed with caution because it can only mean one thing: Your boss is avoiding home like the plague and could use a hug and some Scotch.
The foodie boss
There are few things worse than pulling in $45,000 a year and having a boss who feels it necessary to tell you he has dined at every Michelin star restaurant from New York City to Bangkok. You can be guaranteed that boss is also the same one who forces you to pitch in for your own office birthday cake.
The team-builder boss
The team-builders of the world really want you as a member of their squad so you can jive with their ideas — until, that is, you dare to disagree with one or they need to shave a few hundred thousand dollars from next year’s budget and you’re told to go bat for another team.
The stickler-for-time-sheets boss
Priorities, please. Those time sheets will long outlive us all — so let’s be sure we hand them in on time… just in case.
The loose-cannon boss
Do you nod your head “yes?” Make up a story about someone you know who does coke even though it’s no longer 1986? No, you and every other employee with a loose cannon boss simply laughs — nervously — and counts the seconds until you can go back to work.
Dress-for-the-job-you-want boss
No other phrase has inspired so many workers to show up to the office (even if it’s the office of their daydreams) wearing a Hawaiian shirt, Mickey Mouse ears or decked out in full princess regalia like this one.
The boss with issues
Selfish, but true: Your boss’ blue period can mean super-lax rules at work, more free time to find Pokémon in the company parking lot and even, if you play your cards right, free alcohol. Not that a divorce isn’t extremely sad or anything.
The boss who needs to chill
This employee has her boss’ health and best interests in mind, I’m sure. If that also results in fewer tears at work, I’m sure both she and every patient in the hospital will be better off for it.
The fittest boss on the block
There’s nothing like a little CEO fitness shaming to keep employees in line and help create future eating disorders.
The über-educated boss
If anyone in the office is going to have a “Masteral degree,” it’s going to be the one who can afford to pay her tuition and not be riddled with student loan debt.
Anti-marriage-and-love boss
Because an employer’s job isn’t just to mentor his or her workers about the profession at hand, help them set goals and pay their salaries — he must also assume all male workers would take a Porsche and the temporary love of a co-ed over a lasting soul connection and the possibility of populating the planet.
Email-loving boss
If you can see your boss laughing out loud after reading this email response — and, considering how you probably work on top of each other, you can definitely see her face — she’s officially the best boss ever and a total keeper.
The worst-son-ever boss
At the very least, a comment this crazy from your boss would temporarily lift you out of your state of grief so you can wonder in amazement how the hell he could say something this freaking crazy.
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