People Reveal Their Boss's Most Michael Scott-ish Moments

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May 24, 2020 4:00 PM EDT

We've said time and time again, that a boss can make or break your workplace. And what's worse than having a 'Michael Scott' for a boss; the star of the American sitcom The Office, and the quintessential bad boss. We've all had one before and a Reddit thread asking people to share the most Michael Scott-ish thing their boss ever did has brought up some real classic Steve Carell moments that are totally cringeworthy. Read on and be amazed at these bad bosses. 

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    Text - Text - taoshka 1.8k points · 1 year ago We had mice. Boss man was terrified of mice and a total skinflint who didn't want to pay for an exterminator. His big idea (I sh.t you not!) was to give me cotton to put in my ears and a blow horn. He then opened the back door, closed all other doors in the little shop, and I had to attempt to herd mice out of the store with af.. king air horn, with cotton balls sticking out of my ears. I tried to explain why it wouldn't work, but he essentially tol
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    Text - FridaysOnTheFly 1.6k points 1 year ago I handed him an aerial image I had printed. He told me I needed to reprint it and rotate it 180. I walked to my cubicle, waited a minute, handed it back to him right side up. His reply, "Perfect."
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    Text - Text - [deleted] 14.7k points · 1 year ago It was this guy's last day with the company, and the managers brought in a cake for everyone to share. A very nice farewell gesture. Except he wasn't moving to a new city or leaving the company for a new job. He had gotten fired. The managers literally fired this guy, then called everyone into the kitchen and said "Okay, today is Steve's last day with the company, let's have some cake!" Most oblivious, socially awkward, tone deaf moment imaginabl
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    Text - Text - Ricetaco 7.8k points 1 year ago After a successful project, owner of the company invited everyone out to lunch (about 12 employees) at a nearby restaurant by the office. Little did she know, the place was very expensive, so she bounces early before the check comes, stating that she had a client call. She gives us money to pay for her meal and takes off, leaving the rest of us to figure out the check. It also turns out she didn't give us enough money to pay for her potion of the che
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    Text - 1YearWonder 19.9k points · 1 year ago Mandatory Staff Appreciation Day. It fell on my day off, and I had to come in, to participate in the team-building activities that were scheduled. It went from 7am to 7pm, which was longer than a normal shift. That was my only day off that week.
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    Text - Text - [deleted] 15.1k points · 1 year ago A few coworkers and I competed in a local Office-themed trivia contest. We came in second place, and one of the prizes was a "World's Best Boss" mug. We brought it into work and displayed it proudly like a trophy in one of our offices. My boss-who was not involved in the contest, has never seen The Office, is not friends with or well-liked by any of us, and is a huge idiot--saw the mug in someone else's office and just took it. None of us could f
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    Text - [deleted] 21.0k points · 1 year ago My boss put candles in his dishwasher to clean them and they ended up melting and distributing a thin layer of wax over everything
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    Text - Text - Amedais 2.6k points 1 year ago We legitimately had to lay off 4 people last year, and management decided to wait until the day before the Halloween office party to do it. No joke. It was like the Halloween episode in real life.
    via u/Amedais
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    Text - Text - puntini 2.5k points 1 year ago This is a story from my brother. He works at a credit union and one morning around 10 his boss walks out of his office asking if anyone wants the other half he cut off of this huge bran muffin he had for breakfast. Everyone there said they were fine and the boss went back into his office. Later, around 12, an employee comes in for her shift with a box full of doughnuts to share with the office. Everyone came up and took one thanking the employee for b
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    Text - cervidaes 1.1k points · 1 year ago My manager tried to get the nickname he had chosen for himself to catch on. The nickname in question was "Hollywood". He would introduce himself to new workers/visitors/etc. as Hollywood, one of us would say "no one calls him that" and he would just be like "well. everyone calls me that."
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    Text - Text - Smiling_Mister_J 22.7k points 1 year ago As a blizzard approached, he offered to drive home anybody who needed a ride because he'd just bought a new "badass" Hummer H2 that "could drive through anything". And hour later, he and three of my coworkers are sitting in his new SUV in a snow drift on the side of the road, waiting for the wife of one of them to pick them up.
    via u/Smiling_Mister_J
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    Text - Text - Jakebob70 1.7k points · 1 year ago - edited 1 year ago Announced it to everyone if he got laid the previous night. (fortunately it wasn't that often). EDIT: Oh yeah.. same guy put it in one person's performance appraisal that she'd get a better rating next year if she didn't "do something dumb like get pregnant."
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    Text - Text - Theres_A_FAP_4_That 15.3k points · 1 year ago My one boss, an absolute nightmare of a human, carried all of his paperwork around in a black trash bag. And he was rich, like filthy rich. he inherited his father's contracting company and during the boom of the early 2000's made a ton of money. But he said he didn't trust briefcases.. yeah, i know. So one night he left his trash case in an office and a cleaning woman threw it out. All contracts, building specs, whatever, gone.
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    Text - Text - Therapists4200Alex 2.9k points · 1 year ago Asked an interviewee, "Aren't you a little old for IT?"
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    Text - Text - mikejones0771 1.0k points · 1 year ago Had us rank each other in order from 1 to 20, of who is the overall hardest worker. Told us no one would know the results. Next day, reads the order out loud. The people ranked 15-20 now knew what everyone thought of them. Killed staff morale.
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    Text - Text - offhandaxe 7.9k points · 1 year ago He was approved to buy a furniture set for out new office waiting room he bought one then took it home and brought his old living room furniture for the office to use. Then when they shut that office down a year later he took his old furniture back instead of letting them take it to the new office location.
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