They are out there !
My current boss is always angry. He drives angry. First thing in the morning he is angry. He abuses all the workers over silly little things.
He abuses the suppliers, even when he is trying to be funny and joking.
He abuses the customers over the phone and to their face.
And he abuses the poor delivery drivers and blames them for what he abused the customer or supplier for.
He hardly ever re-orders consumables in time, and blames everyone else for running out of supplies.
He works on the weekends and hides things, and makes a mess.
He hoards empty boxes and pallets until you can't hardly move about.
Safety issues don't exist, despite the many laws he breaks.
And if you don't do things exactly his way, you will never hear the end of it.
No body ever works there for more than a year, and the only one who knows how to run the place has quit twice already.
It is almost entertaining, with the stupid ideas he comes up with, and then contradicts himself seconds later.
I really don't think there is anyone he doesn't abuse, (except for himself).
But then he probably abuses himself as well (in private).

I've had mental bosses in 'male menopause' who were psycho, but this one takes the cake.
I wonder if he bites his tongue when the cops pull him over, or he would be in handcuffs in a jiffy.

If you are game, tell us about your psycho boss, or former psycho boss.
Don't forget - big brother is watching.

He was.

been working for myself since 1992
I can't stand me

I had one who ACTED like a psychopath. Thought all women should be teachers, or not work at all. Absolutely shouldn't be a petroleum engineer like HE was. And he was just a 2-3 yrs older than me.

His name was Elmo -- very fitting.

I had a boss who couldn't keep it zipped.
Literally.
He would return from the lavatory and a piece
of shirt would be poking through his pants zipper.
One always had to look.

Finally I asked a co-worker if the guy would
benefit from some hands-on step-by-step instructions
on tucking it all in.

Turns out that would have been sexual harassment!
Easier to quit.

LOL, send him some velcro in company mail.



was he old, Alzheimer's?


Maybe he wore sweats or other "pull up" pants when not working.

Some people are just angry with the world.
I worked for a boss that had real mental problems and was on meds for it.
Even on meds he was impossible.
After I got into some confrontations with him I understood his mentality.

The first thing I did when I got to work was go in his office and say hello.
Then I pumped him with shallow praise and he softened.

"You're the best boss I have ever had. I am so lucky you hired me and I only hope that I can live up to your idea of who I am supposted to be.
Thank you!"
Then I would add a few "wow, that was brilliant" or "you're so good" before I started my work. On those days, he left me be and focused on the others.
After awhile, He was actually good to me.

I pumped him full of so much shallow praise his ears scuffed the doorway and he liked it.

Maybe you should leave some laxatives and pile cream on his desk. You never know.

Soufie i only have two eyes. And i love animals.

Tell me something. What did you eat today?

I had a boss who regularly and literally CURSED employees out and threw things around his office. He terrified me ...lol. Odd thing is that I told him this right at the beginning, and he never bothered me, gave me someone else that I could deal with if I was scared to deal with him. He and I had no trouble, but he was still pretty awful to other people, a few times even over things others were supposed to do for or with me but had not.


IT was a very tense environment. I believe he had earned his position as owner of this pretty successful company very young and was always on edge with some type of paranoia about others trying to ruin or take it from him with their action or inaction. It was not an excuse for how he acted, but it was a way to understand why he acted that way.

I've managed to avoid psychopath bosses.
Mine are generally mediocre to competent.
I keep holding out for the insecurely vain nymphomaniac fresh out of college living off a trustfund who feels they need to buy love.
Maybe I should start applying to victoria's secrets or fredericks of hollywood stores or dog groomers or something.
Oh well.

This crazy boss of mine goes forensic at the end of the day when everyone has gone.

I found some barrier hand cream in a cupboard and started using it, (hard labour work), there were 2 bottles in the cupboard; after the weekend, the one I was using had gone, and also the other one left in the cupboard was gone, never to be seen again. Then I bought my own in just to piss him off.

One morning he told me he abused me the night before, over a job he didn't like the look of, which looked exactly the same as the other jobs surrounding it.

Another morning he told me he cried over a job he didn't like, and made me do it again; it still looked the same but he was happy with it.

One of the suppliers calls him Mister Grumpy, and tries to deliver when he is out .

Another supplier has known him for 20 years, and last week was talking about pulling the pin and letting someone else take over this contract.

After 3 months working there I saw him laugh for the first time, but 2 minutes later he was back to normal, angry and stalking around like a shark looking for something to tear into.

He listens to politics on the radio in the office, and comes out to the workshop to rant and rage about politicians and the economy and how the country is falling to pieces - he almost froths at the mouth then. Quite funny.

Everyone else working there jokes about him, (even his relative), and we can't wait till he gets in the work ute and goes away for an hour or more. But he always comes back to annoy us.

If he just went away for good it would be a good place to work in.
But with him around it's some sort of perverse entertainment, wondering what he will do or say next.

As employees, you should record 'everything'. document,document, document. and name witnesses. Even if you have to video these incidents that management seems to think its okay. If its wrong, write it all up. It helps your case when you do have to go to court