Office Horror Stories: True Workplace Nightmares

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What do you do when the person you work for is delusional. They have visions of grandeur that really don’t exist, yet they insist on living in this delusional world and bringing you into it? How do you keep your job and not go crazy at such w workplace?

“It didn't take me long to find out my boss was mentally insane. It started off fine, she was great but quickly went south after a few months. She was super funny and would sing and dance in front of the customers to make them laugh. Everyone loved her. She would always brag about her lifestyle and her big nice house her husband built her and how they donate so much money to charity every year. She seemed like she had it all. One day I came into work down in the dumps because my boyfriend had gotten locked up earlier that day for probation violation. She noticed something was wrong, and after me explaining to her what happened, she dragged me to her car and took me to bail him out of jail. I told her a million times not to do it because I didn't have the money to pay her back, but she insisted. A couple of weeks after that passed, she told everyone that she had hit the lottery and that she was going to give each worker $10,000. We were all ecstatic to say the least, because we did not make a lot of money working there making $2.00 an hour being a waitress. She also told me in private that I was her favorite, so she was going to buy me a car because I didn't have one. I was over the moon, excited. She would randomly buy everyone nice things and treat us to dinner a few times a month.”

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Have you ever had a coworker who just refused to be happy? The type that will complain and complain, yet when things are fixed, they just find more to complain about. Yep, That’s who we’re talking about today on office horror stories!

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Sometimes people put up so many walls, it is impossible to get to know them. What do you do when you have a co-worker that you can't be sure is good, bad, neutral or evil? Confusing co-workers, today on Office Horror Stories.

“3 weeks and I had only said one thing to her, in attempts to be nice and sociable which was "What do you think of this new program, compared to the old one?" and simply got a response "I was just getting used to the old one too but it's not bad." I smiled, left it at that and went on my way to whatever it was I had been doing, probably a visit to the bathroom. Several days later, still trying to learn how the new program worked, I had come back from my Team Lead's desk after asking her a question only to be approached by my direct manager, Ashley. Ashley smiled and asked me to follow her to her office for a moment. My thinking nothing, perhaps reflecting our personal assessments we had done a week or two earlier, she happened to be on her way and felt it was just easier to snag me as she passed by; I was wrong.”

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Have you ever been asked to do something that was far outside of your job description? How do you handle it, when what you are asked to do is not only dangerous but crazy as well? 

“Later that day, I got a call explaining that I was one of the five people they wanted to call back for stage 2, so I was told to return to the office at 9 AM the next day. I get there and find that there are four other people waiting as well. As we wait, the tiny waiting room fills up, until there are more than 30 people packed together. While this is happening, we hear house music ominously blasting in the backroom, and after a while, we hear loud chanting and shouting coming as well.

Against my better judgment, I choose to stay until my name is called. My interviewer explains that because the office is so crowded, we must have an interview in a Starbucks. On the way, he explains that my job would involve none of the responsibilities listed in the job description. Instead, it involved walking up to people on the subway to get them to sign up for cell phone deals, and my salary would be entirely commission-based.”

 

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Have you ever had a boss that didn’t respect your time off? Calling, emailing, even demanding you “stop in” on your vacation? Today we hear about a zealous boss who doesn’t respect personal time in any, way shape, or forms!

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“Shortly after, I would start getting called in on my week-long vacations, and the reason was my manager was whining about shifts needing to be covered and having no one to call in, and a close friend of mine had enough and flat out told him, "Hey, why not call in [story writer], he'll work" and just kept pestering and pestering until in an annoyed tone my manager was like, "I guess I can call him in"

Well, one of these days, the store owner was at the store and remembering the schedule issue, I brought it up with her, to which the owner was shocked at how little I was being given for hours.

After that, I was given regular working hours again, and I think it was in part because my friend would just annoy my manager into calling me in, and also because I think the owner tore the manager a new butthole for abusing his employees.

Soon, however, I was given nothing but opening shifts, and our store opens at 6am... the reason this is an issue is that I have ADHD meds I take at 7am every day, and my manager knew this.”


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Having a vindictive boss is never a “good thing”. Having a boss that goes out of their way to destroy your personal belongings takes crazy to a whole new level. That’s what we talk about today on Office Horror Stories. 

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“Adrian is THE most awful boss EVER. Adrian is a huge bully for no good reason. Vincent is a sweet guy in his 50’s who still lives at home with his mom. And Adrian thinks of himself as some sort of Messiah. Here goes! It’s the end of the day and work is almost over; everyone is getting ready to leave and Vincent hangs his lab coat up ready for the next day. Adrian likes to do A LOT of overtime; I’m talking working from 4am-5pm when our contracted hours are 8am-5pm. So, this means, Adrian comes in much much earlier than Vincent. On this day, Vincent arrives at work and goes into the workshop, he knows he has a messy job to do that day, so he goes to get his lab coat, but his lab coat isn’t there. He turned around and Adrian is smirking at him. Adrian shrugged at Vincent as if he didn’t know what happened to the lab coat. Vincent started to walk around the machines and see’s that his lab coat is floating in the tank of oil they have in the corner of the room. That’s right, oil. Vincent simply said nothing because he knows that Adrian loves getting a rise out of him, so he lets it go and asks the superiors to order a new lab coat. A few months go by, it’s seemingly just another day at work with Adrian bossing Vincent around and telling him how useless he is. It gets to the end of the day. Vincent doesn’t like to wear his work boots in his car because of the oil they work with, so he keeps a pair of sneakers in a locker, but today, he notices the keys to his locker are already in the keyhole.”

 

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Some people just have no concept of what life is like outside of their bubble. Some people have always had everything handed to them and probably always will. What is lifelike for those charged with catering to these assholes? That’s today on Office Horror Stories!

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“Having never done anything of value in her own life, she has devoted all her time to berating and humiliating us poor’s. We’ve photo-documented their homes down to the polish of the salad forks, lest she sends us manifestos about how we failed their expectations when an original Rockwell painting is .0007 degrees off-center. I once had to shuttle her and the company owner’s wife through a raging blizzard, and while I waited for them to eat at a restaurant, she loudly expressed her desire that the waiter be hanged for bringing her lukewarm soup (there was one waiter holding down about eight 4-tops by themselves due to their coworkers being snowed out of work).”

 

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Call center employees take more abuse than you could imagine. Impatient customers on a mission to shut down and destroy anyone in their path who simply want to help. Today we hear stories of call center nightmares!

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Nurses, cooks, salesmen, etc. suddenly became IT experts in weeks. This could be a trade secret, but the real reason why we don't have to be experts is that most centers follow a flow that mostly consists of questions and clicks to the proper box. I guess many people back in the states will relate to this. We must follow that flow even if it means we must ask questions that sometimes don't have anything to do with the issue. We can't reveal that we follow a flow and we can't do freestyle to quicken the call as that will be a death sentence for us. With all fairness to the system, 90% of the flows work and fix stuff, the rest is when we send technician to the customer's address. That is an entirely a different process, we can relay all we want, give all the information, but after that it really depends on the company and the technicians if they will show up. We also encountered racists comments from customers and some agents won't take this easily, we have cases that when a customer asks for an "American" agent, they were transferred to the Spanish queue. Our agents, at least in the company that I worked for speaks English properly. Some have accents close to those in the US so for them it's sometimes unfair for customers not giving them a chance. To end this, I'll give a series of tips for American listeners who from time to time must speak with customer service reps with hopes that we can help each other even more.

 

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