42 Employees Who Publicly Shamed Their Jerk Bosses – These Employees Had Enough Of Their Mean Bosses

Emily Izsak | November 1, 2024 9:00 pm

You have a certain amount of responsibility to your employees if you're a boss or a manager or a CEO. It's your responsibility not to be a jerk. If you do start acting like a complete goon, then your employees reserve the right to publicly shame you on social media. That's just how the modern world works. It's how we maintain some sense of responsibility and justice in this world.

Keep reading to see some bosses who fully deserve to be called out on the internet.

A Crime Against Pizza

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This person works in a pizza shop, and his boss doesn't let him or any of his coworkers take leftover pizza home.

It all gets thrown out at the end of the day.

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A Very Strange Box

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A Reddit user posted this very strange image online along with an interesting caption.

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"My boss has a chest of random items that she likes. She told me on my first day to 'look in the chest when you're ready.'"

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It's Been Replaced

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Reddit user BrokenDice16 posted this photo online and explained what happened with their boss.

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"Leave work for one day and my boss replaced my large monitor that I use to make prototype models and engravings on products with this tiny one."

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Quitting Time

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This person asked for time off and her boss wouldn't give it to her—even though she was totally entitled to paid time off.

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She decided to quit and go on vacation anyway.

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A Whole Pie

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This person brought a pecan pie into work to share with her coworkers.

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When she couldn't find it in the fridge, she went looking for it and found the dish completely empty on her boss's desk.

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A Good Reason To Quit

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This person quit their job because they were assaulted at work and their boss won't fire their attacker.

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This is horrible. Everyone deserves to feel safe in their place of work.

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A New Standing Desk

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This person came back from vacation to see that his boss had replaced his desk with this dresser and piece of glass.

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He also replaced his desk chair with a saddle chair.

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Well, That's Spooky

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This boss decided to give his employees quite a fright by setting up this very scary doll in the bathroom.

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It wasn't even Halloween. That's just not right. She's so spooky!

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Time To Get A New Pole

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This warehouse pole looks like it's on its last legs. It may be time to get a new pol considering this holds up the roof and it looks like a major safety hazard.

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The bossman doesn't think so, though.

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Nobody Charges For Free

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If you work in a place, you should be allowed to charge your phone there.

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That's just a basic rule of humanity. This sounds like a horrible place to work.

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The Worst Way To Text

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The worst answer you could possibly give to a question that isn't a yes or no question is a yes or no answer.

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"Yes" does not give this person any information about when they should call.

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That's Soap

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This boss likes to make soap in his spare time.

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He brought in this gross soap to work and left it in the employee washroom. It does look frighteningly realistic.

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Not How You Cut A Cake

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This boss thinks that it's perfectly acceptable to cut a cake like this.

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Although, the employee who posted this photo did mention that all of the slices were remarkably even.

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The Thing About Tips

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Tips are supposed to be given to employees as a reward for them doing a good job.

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At no point should an employer get their employees' tips. We hope this sign is displayed for customers to see.

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This Filter Is Anything But Clean

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Someone posted this picture on Reddit explaining that this is what the drinking water filter looks like at their workplace.

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And instead of replacing it, their boss just insists that it still works. Yikes...

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The Worst Gift

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This Reddit user posted this photo online along with a caption explaining how weird this was.

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"My boss gave this to me and told me he was thinking of me...(I'm pretty sure it's human skin)"

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The Grossest Spoon

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This spoon is not rusty. It's covered in dry tea.

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It belongs to Reddit user kimberlyautumns' boss. He uses it to drink tea three times a day and never washes it.

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Another Bad Text

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What is it with bosses and responding "yes" to texts that are clearly not yes or no questions?

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Which one of those options is it? Is he going to just take them, or what?

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It Still Works

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This boss insists that this cabinet is still functional, even though it's barely hanging on by a thread—literally.

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A string tied to a nearby staircase is the only thing keeping this cabinet standing.

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Our Thoughts Exactly

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If this cat looks very upset, that's because his owner's boss had been bragging about giving her a five-dollar bonus for weeks and then just recently said that he's dropping it down to one dollar.

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I guess this cat isn't getting the fancy cat food.

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He Has To Point

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This boss is not capable of pointing without touching.

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Look at all of those finger marks on this television screen. Somebody needs to get this guy a laser pointer, stat.

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The Messiest Cord Situation

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This boss thinks that it's totally fine for the cords under his employees' desks to look like this.

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How many devices does this person even have on his desk? This is unruly.

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He Censored Her Cleavage

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This woman explained that her boss made her cover up her cleavage at work by putting duct tape on her shirt.

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It can be hard for us big-chested ladies to hide "the girls" with low-cut tops like this one, but this is where undershirts come in handy!

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Time To Quit

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These employees found a hidden camera in the bathroom at work, which means that their boss has been spying on them all totally illegally.

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They all decided to quit at the same time.

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It's All Gone

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Reddit user threedogcircus posted this photo and explained what their boss did when they were away.

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"Back in the office for the first time since March 14th and my boss THREW AWAY my filing cabinet with ALL MY PERSONAL STUFF AND WORK FILES in it and replaced it with this... WHY??!"

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How Lazy Can You Get?

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This boss decided to throw out the box that his printer came in by just plopping it on top of a very small garbage bin.

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That bin could fit inside the box.

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There Was Plenty Of Room

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It was somebody's idea to install these two urinals very close together in this workplace washroom.

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There is a ton of empty space to the right of that second urinal.

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Glitter Everywhere

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This employee was tasked with opening her boss's mail during the Christmas season.

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He got a whole bunch of Christmas cards that were covered in glitter. Now she is covered in glitter.

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How This Boss Opens Coffee

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This boss thinks it's a totally acceptable thing to do to open bags of coffee from the top, even though they clearly have an easy-pour spout.

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This is not okay.

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How He Parks Every Day

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This boss has a big GMC van and every day, he parks between two parking spots.

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Either he is a horrible driver who should stay off the roads or he just doesn't care about anyone else.

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How This Boss Eats Her Fries

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Every morning, this boss gets a McDonald's breakfast sandwich with a side of fries. This is how she rips open the paper bag to get at the fries.

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Why doesn't she lay the bag lengthwise like a normal person?

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Bread Keeps Going To Waste

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This boss always buys himself a loaf of bread to keep in the work kitchen, but he never eats it, and it always goes moldy.

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This is so gross to look at.

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We Love Illegally Getting More Money For Our Personal Lives

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I used to have a boss who had the company Xmas party at his house every year, so he could use company money to pay for landscaping and cleaning service, and feed his family for weeks after with the leftovers.
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The crazy thing is that there is no doubt in my mind that the boss is already the person in the office with the highest salary.

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Yet they still go out of the way to swindle more coin.

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Oh, How The Turntables Have...

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This woman is living every employee's dream by using their boss's own patronizing logic and words against them.

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However, I really want to know how the manager reacted to the message.

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Truth Hurts, I Guess

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I got a citation in my employee file at Red Robin because I told my boss that Bob Marley did not sing Red Red Wine.
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Imagine being so much of an insecure, arrogant baby that you'd take an employee simply correcting you on a misconception as something to punish them for.

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This boss clearly needs therapy.

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Sir, That Is Illegal

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A boss I used to have, had no problem saying out loud
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First of all, if you're a grown man referring to your female subordinates as "girls," you deserve to be punched in the face.

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If you get mad at women for getting pregnant as if you weren't born because of a pregnant woman, you deserve to be murdered.

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The Sass In This Message Is So Loud

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text message: Graham, are you sober enough to tell me if you can work Monday morning?
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Here's the thing: when your employee is off the clock, they're allowed to do whatever they want with their time.

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How dare this manager be condescending to Graham on his night off!!

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I'm Calling HR!

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one of my newsroom bosses would tell my contacts I was a s*** journo who couldn't be trusted, so they should give their stories to him
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On one hand, I understand that some professional fields are extremely competitive when vying for opportunities.

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On the other hand, you can't be a boss and also actively try to ruin opportunities for your subordinates.

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Grandma, I Don't Think You Understand How This Business Works

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Boss at a club I bartended at got sick and couldn't work, owner hired her mother as new manager. Grandmomager repeatedly asked the bouncers to stop people from dancing
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Bouncers already have so much on their plate: they have to deal with drunk and unruly people inside and outside the establishment and manage violent threats.

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They don't have time to tell patrons to leave room for Jesus.

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This Is Just Disgusting

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One time my boss ate all of the breading off of 3 pieces of leftover fried chicken I brought to work for lunch and then put the naked chicken back into the breakroom fridge like nothing happened.
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Anyone who is enough of a snake to eat someone else's food from the lunchroom already has a ticket booked to Hell.

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But it takes a special kind of evil to eat part of it and pretend nothing happened.

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Okay, This One Is On The Employee

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When her boss took her aside to fire her, they also provided this printed out tweet as "evidence" for why they couldn't keep her on the team there.

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This is why you should think before you tweet.

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Sue Him, Sis!

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Awful boss pretty much forced a female coworker to babysit/dog site for free over a three day weekend without pay and then fired her when they got home from vacation
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There is something deeply evil about bullying an employee into doing work that's not included in their job description.

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However, firing them immediately afterward cements it: this boss is a horrible person.