Got a Crazy Boss? Tell Us About It

Bosses. They can be the bane of your existence or benefit your work life. And sometimes, they just are plain insane.

For a great example, take this story from our new Your Crazy Boss message board, posted by Monster member GettinSerious:

My craziest boss was an anorexic who used to sit in meetings eating canned green beans right out of the can. But she never wanted to touch one of those wretched green beans with the skin on her fingers or with her lips, so she'd pick one bean at a time out of the can, pinching it with her long fingernails and then curling her lips back so she only touched it with her teeth, never her lips, when she got the bean to her mouth.

She also preferred working between about 6 p.m. and 4 a.m. so was hardly ever there during the day. One night, she called me at 1:30 a.m. to discuss a routine email. When my phone rang at 1:30 a.m., I jumped out of bed, thinking some relative had probably been in a horrible accident or something. It was my boss asking a routine question about some routine issue about which I'd emailed her days earlier. When I exclaimed, "Do you know what time it is!" she mumbled something about being sorry, it must be getting late but...and then proceeded to talk for over an hour about routine office business.

That was the last straw that made me decide I had to find a new job.

Sounds like a real winner, right? But I bet you can top it. Post your story on our Your Crazy Boss message board, and author and columnist Stanley Bing, as well as other Monster members, will help you deal with this person. You’d be crazy not to!

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