Ever Have a Boss That Got Fired?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Well, it looks like my current one is. She announced it to us yesterday, which is something I'd never do. Then she pretty much wanted us to take sides between her and her direct superior. She then said you can't trust any of the higher ups. Well, my old boss (not her) was the one that took a chance on me in the first place. Her direct superior was the one who hired me back after I left for a bit. I respect them and they actually work.

All she did was skip out on a bunch of work, drag her feet in giving me a promotion I deserved, and most importantly just not do her job. Good riddance.

[KStrick]

My current job, actually. Our director was let go. We've been flying without a boss for a while. There are power struggles, but I don't care, I'm out in August anyway...

[Nikki Heyman]

One boss I really liked was fired for working on his side projects on the clock.

All the bad bosses tend to stick around

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

May 27, 2015 9:39:55 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

One boss I really liked was fired for working on his side projects on the clock.

All the bad bosses tend to stick around

Not mine

[jagilki]

Quite a few.

When I was butchering for a grocery store, the head of the Meat Dept. went on Vacation. The owner stepped in to take over while she was on Vacation. He hated everything she had set up for dept. procedures. When she got back from Vacation she was fired.

The last place I worked at had quite a few supervisors fired.

I worked in the Deli (cooking hot food only). The first Manager was fired because... well... longish story. First she hired her daughter (no real problem there I guess) but anyways she takes the weekend off to go down to Denver, he daughter no-shows her shift and leaves me there to cover the entire deli by myself all day. I ended up being there 16 hours. The Regional manager shows up, asks what's going on. Calls the daughter to show up to work, she refuses saying her mom told her she didn't have to work today. They were both fired.

The Store manager was fired a few weeks later for failing drug tests, and just being an incompetent mess.

The second Deli Manager was fired for sharing store financial information with the fired store manager on Facebook and trashing co-workers with said fired Manager.

[Alexander The So-so]

Not fired, but I had a boss who had to leave the company because she collapsed at work due to exhaustion/overwork/not eating enough.

It was in Japan, so go figure; it's very much a Japanese thing to work yourself to death. There's a lot of arbitrary pressure to show how loyal you are to your company by putting in ungodly hours, never spending time with your family, and working unpaid overtime. So, she'd spend time at work into the nights, not eating, not sleeping, until at the end of one workday, she was lying on the office floor, muttering barely coherently, and we had to call an ambulance.

Very sad, and very disturbing.

[BigWill]

I once had a boss that got fired after getting arrested for trying to buy heroin from an undercover cop.

The reveal ended up explaining a whole lot.

[crash1984]

Last year I had a boss and I don't know if she got fired or quit but whatever the circumstances she left very suddenly and I honestly I suspect she was fired. This woman was the type who did not know her butt from a hole in the ground. To start with she was a new hire who had zero experience and even a lot of others who had higher positions that me were questioning this move. When she finally got through with all the training and what not it was obvious she had no clue how to do things as she came up with a bunch of silly rules and done other questionable things including some serious company no-nos.

For instance just before she got there I had requested and been granted a Sunday night off and the boss who set that up got the man who did my job Mon-Thursday. ON the Thursday night afterwards I had been at the gym and then done some other things. About 3 in the morning I noticed that she had called several times around 10:45 and another higher boss had left a message to call him. About 9 the next morning I did call him and the story I got was that he realized he called the wrong person. When I returned to work I got the whole story.

What had happened was that the woman had thought since I was off on Sunday night and the one who done the Mon-Thu shift was working that, that we had traded shifts. On Thursday night he happened to be running late and when he was not there for work she thought I was supposed to be the one there. She then told me from now on to let her know that it is going to be vacation time, even though the higher up boss was the one who approved it.

Even worse was this one time when she called me about 10:45 at night asking me if I could work that night. When I told her no (company policy is that if you are not a boss they can not force you to work overtime) she got upset and started coming up with this sob story. I still stuck with my no. What got me was why she waited so late before trying to get someone. Typically at my job if someone calls out at 2:00 they start trying to get someone to work that shift at 2:01.

Then there was another time that I am not going to go into that she lied to me and nearly cost me my job. When I found out she was gone I did not miss her and one co-worker almost laughed a little bit when I told him.

[OldDirtyBernie]

Had a situation a few years ago where I was the Assistant Manager at a restaurant. Our sales had dropped and we'd had multiple complaints about service, so the owner of the place called a meeting to regroup, get everyone on the same page, and improve the store. He also made calls to most of the employees individually, where he uncovered multiple instances of people that felt uncomfortable around our then-current General Manager, including sexual harassment.
This, in turn, led to me being the middle man to keep an eye on him while the owner got the information he needed (more actual evidence, etc) to fire the guy and leave nothing open for recourse. In the mean time, I'm also being pushed for information by the GM as to what's going on, why certain people aren't working with him any longer, etc. It all made for a really awkward situation for a little less than a month.
Unfortunately, while I was promised the promotion to GM, the owner then brought someone else in for the job that also happened to be Military Reserve and in airborne training. I was left doing GM work without title or equivalent pay.
I confronted the owner about it and he refused to acknowledge the work I was doing with any type of raise, so I gave my notice.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I had one boss who eventually got canned for embezzlement, but that was about a year after I had switched jobs.

[Lupin the Third]

May 27, 2015 9:16:02 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Well, it looks like my current one is. She announced it to us yesterday, which is something I'd never do. Then she pretty much wanted us to take sides between her and her direct superior. She then said you can't trust any of the higher ups. Well, my old boss (not her) was the one that took a chance on me in the first place. Her direct superior was the one who hired me back after I left for a bit. I respect them and they actually work.

All she did was skip out on a bunch of work, drag her feet in giving me a promotion I deserved, and most importantly just not do her job. Good riddance.

The first thing that bothered me was when she wanted you to choose sides between her and the higher ups. To me, that's not a good quality to have when you're in that kind of position.

[Crimson]

Funny story from my last job is that by accepting a different position myself, I actually delayed my boss getting sacked. He later told me they were looking to phase him out by having me assume more positions, but since it was OPS I ended up leaving the second I got an actual Full-Time Offer.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

My last job. The regular manager went on maternity leave, and recommended to head office that I take over. She was overruled, and the bozo hired to take over ran the business into the ground over the next four months, got fired for "borrowing" money from the takings, and I wound up in charge anyway.

[DASH 243✅]

I had one boss that was escorted out of work by the cops. He was stealing from the store I worked at.
Had anther one fired for threating to beat up my co-worker for calling in sick. Left the damn threat on his answering machine the dumb ass

[Mackenzie Gorn]

I had one who got fired for favoritism. I knew he did it cause I was one.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Several, as I have six managers my main manager has been there four years but we have gone through about fourteen assistants several were fired for no call no shows. Currently there are new ones but no one knows how long they will last

[The Unconquered Sun]

Part of my job is to make sure that when a repair crew is going to work on a piece of equipment it's safe for them to fix it ( make sure it can't turn on, nothing will actuate, that sort of thing) the job of the supervisor is to make sure that the repair crew has enough protection, called clearance. He writes up what needs to be done to make the worker safe, and I go and do it.
Two repair men were fixing two different things on the same machine. To save time my supervisor wanted the 2 workers to work under the same protection/clearance. But one of the repair men did not want that, he wanted his own clearance. When asked what he wanted for his protection it WAS LESS THAN THE ORIGINAL CLEARANCE. There was a better chance he could have gotten hurt. So my supervisor forced him to work under the original protection/clearance.
The repairman was irate over his and took it up with the plant's management and my supervisor was fired over it!
To be clear, he was fired because he tried to make the workman as safe as possible. Shaking my head.

[Nikki Heyman]

My one retail job I could never get promoted to manager (I'd guessed it was because I was the only gal working there). I remember closing a couple of times with one guy who would still be counting up the drawer and would let me go early. Turns out he'd use that as an excuse to call the owner and apologize that the drawer was short (read: he'd pocket a few hundred here, a few hundred there....) he just didn't want a witness.

[StormanReigns]

Not technically a boss, since I was a volunteer/Intern.

The top person was let go/or left. The new person had really no idea how everything worked, yelled at everyone, but no one really paid attention, because they knew he would not fire anyone while he was still on probation himself. The replacement ended up not surviving probation.

If you're an outside hire for a position of power, it is better off if you do not act like a prick right away. No one is going to respect your power if they have no idea how to do your job.

That same boss threatened to cut my pay, but the joke was on him, because I was not making anything!

[Bob Schlapowitz]

I have a former boss who was a world class prick, that did things that should have gotten him arrested, much less fired. Well, he got demoted recently...not quite fired, but it's a start.