What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[usnuzuloose]

I had a boss yell at me in front of everyone in the store for doing my job. He yelled at me for checking ID for certain items. I could have lost my job if it had been a mystery person to make sure I was doing my job. Those were his friends.

 

[disykat]

I had a boss who took every opportunity to describe me as new and inexperienced because I'd taken a few years off. In reality I had way more years of experience in the specifics of that field than she did and she knew it. She was a administrator with little to no experience in the field she was working in. GRRR. Still makes me angry. In my 60 years I've only had one boss not feel like I was a valuable part of the team and it was a shock to my system.

 

[Beach Bunny]

"You're a great employee and we would hate to lose you. Please continue to work for us remotely"
So here I am

 

[ronandannette]

I shudder to think of what's been said behind my back, but what I don't know doesn't hurt me. Boss and I have worked together for a very long time and there's a lot of water under the bridge. Sometimes we've been allies and sometimes adversaries.

 

[Bibbobboo2u]

My boss from my first job out of college told me that it was virtually impossible for a woman to make it in that profession. He retired within a year. I retired 25 years later. Spent half my career with that company and the remainder elsewhere. How wrong he was......but I did have to acquire more knowledge in the field and develop a much broader skill set than my male counterparts in order to advance. I hope things are better out there now because I was only able to crack the glass ceiling, not shatter it! Oh well, back to semi-retirement now (still help DH with his business) and more Disney planning!!!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

You're fired.

 

[Uncle Coaster]

“Half the company hates you and the other half is afraid of you.”

 

[design_mom]

"Can you $*%&$ do this, or do I need to get someone in here who can?" (Implying I was incompetent.)

^^ I had done what he had asked (I had the email to back it up), but he had apparently changed his mind about what he wanted and thought I should be able to read his mind. That boss was very... uh... volatile. You were either a rockstar or an imbecile and it could change within seconds. He called me a rockstar more often than an imbecile, but he could get really nasty when he was unhappy. Just thinking about him makes my blood pressure rise!

 

[DisneyOma]

Got a bad end of year review because I missed a week of work due to a prescheduled family reunion. They knew about the week before they hired me, okayed it before they hired me, but gave me a 1 out of 4 for attendance because I actually went on the vacation?

 

[crazylady]

One said he hired me because I was young, cheap and dumb.

Another saw how messy my desk drawer was and said "omg. Your underwear drawer must be a mess!"

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I left my job in retail abruptly, as in I walked out because the manager dressed me down in front of the whole store full of customers about my drawer being short. Yes, it was, I forget the amount but it wasn't by much and it would have come out of my paycheck anyway. But she talked to me as if I were some dumb kid, and people were standing around laughing. I wound up going in the back and getting my jacket and leaving, never to return.

In a way I'm glad, because it gave me the push to get serious about my art, and started me down the road to being my own boss.

 

[reecejackox]

My Spanish teacher said it was like reading German in a Spanish lesson to describe my Spanish ability.

 

[Foxhound3857]

A little pervert.

 

[Karin1984]

Because I am curious and my imagination is too vivid: OP, do you do something with all this information, are you a researcher?
You must have the most detailed files on some of people on this board here.

As you are usually not participating in discussions after the first post, are you observing something about human behaviour on this board?

 

[LuvOrlando]

That other employees complained about me using my rolling chair. They knew about a longstanding disability and I was having a bad flare and was using the rolling chair, you know as a wheel chair, same conversation told me there were complaints that I sometimes wobble when I walk, seemed to imply I was under the influence but no, this was from excruciating pain from the same disability flare. Should probably mention the irony that his was a principal at an elementary school and her speciality is special ed, this was 2019.

 

[SteveMouse]

One of my teachers (I use that term loosely here) made a very derogatory comment about individuals with disabilities, in front of the class and directed at me, that was her personal opinion. I was the bigger person and did not take it up with administration, which likely would have cost her the job and her pension. I turned it into an educational lesson for her.

 

[DopeyDame]

In grad school one of my profs said "for an engineer, you're not a bad writer."

ummm.... thanks?

 

[LuvOrlando]

A high school teacher mocked me for being out sick a lot from Epstein-Barr before it was a known thing, actually made a skit of my sick notes at the teacher's senior play, so that happened.

 

[2SLM]

That I wasn't super smart, but just worked hard.

 

[aby914]

Mostly just that I liked to talk. I did. Ha. But I had a law school professor who publicly embarrassed me for my answer to his question with, "you don't check your brain at the door when you enter law school." I think he thought I should have had a common sense based answer to his question. Frankly, I don't remember the question or my answer now, I just remember digging my nails into my leg so I wouldn't cry. I didn't. Class ended and that was that. I would have moved on easier if he hadn't in the next class period said something less insulting to another classmate sitting near me, and at the end of class walked over and apologized to her. She didn't really even understand why he was apologizing. Yet he never apologized to me. Oh well. Maybe I looked like his ex-wife or something. Ha.