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...appointment with my boss to do my annual review. He had allocated an hour for it. Before the meeting, I was to do a self-assessment, which I did. During the meeting, we were to discuss the self-assessment and he was to add his comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...employees that I supervise was reprimanded by me, then later again by our boss. Since I had already handled the situation, I asked our boss how she learned of his misdeed. She said not to worry about it. This happened a few more times. One day, I passed by her office to find her listening on an intercom. She had bugged our offices. Morale plummeted immediately and took another hit when our union did nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...boss eats lunch with certain subordinates and tells them confidential information about other subordinates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...When my boss is here, there's a tension that permeates everything. Your breath catches in your chest and just sticks there for the entire day-no heartburn or reflux medicine can remove the feeling! The man never recognizes anyone for a job well done, yet he never yells at anyone for screwing up. He rarely ever cracks a smile or laughs, but he doesn't yell. It's almost like he's a robot, an automaton that lives to sit in his office and go over minute details of things people will never see or read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...approach my boss with even a simple question is to be subjected to incredible rudeness, unmistakable signals that what I need to discuss just doesn't matter-at all. During such encounters, he sighs, loudly and often; gets a slack-jawed, glaze-eyed expression just 15 to 20 seconds into the conversation; makes sounds like "ughh, ughh" to seem engaged; and asks no questions, but inevitably lets you know the "meeting" is over by either picking up documents to read or turning completely around to read e-mails on his PC ... Ironic how such "micro" inequities have such a HUGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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