'We are to call him Daddy Cool': Entitled, unhinged boss insists employees call him weird nicknames, cue malicious complaince

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    Font - You will address me by my new name M OC I once worked for the second most toxic man I have ever known. This was a small business of him the owner, myself and my long suffering colleague. So he was in complete control with no one to report to. MyBoss was an absolute manchild who would launch into hours long absolute s***fits of pant soiling fury over the smallest inconvenience, and then as soon as his problem was solved would act frustrated and sulky that we weren't all celebrating his vic
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    Font - When MyBoss wasn't risking detonating his own nads into a fine red mist of rage he was otherwise insufferable. He would also frequently get hyper and giddy and make fun of us, lost in a fit of giggles while calling us nonces. Or he would decide that some new form of honours should be bestowed on him like we should be made to call him sir, or master, or Darth. Seriously, imagine a man that has never in his life held a stick or pole without swinging it around making lightsaber noises.
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    Font - Once day he decides we are to call him Daddy Cool. We argue and resist and ohforf***ssake at him but he is insistent that we are to all refer to him henceforth as Daddy Cool. I step away from the insanity to take my lunch in the basement. I chill a little and my own anger settles to weary resignation. Dangerous, perilous, weary resignation.
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    Font - I climb the steps from the basement. I BURST through the door and bellow in my Stage Voice, "DADDY COOL". Customers are in the shop being tended to by MyBoss. I ignore them. My colleague crumples into hysterics gasping omg between breaths.
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    Font - "We have run out of XYZ, DADDY COOL. We should order some of UVW also, DADDY COOL" I address him as Daddy Cool for days until he's like ok alright that's enough. Actually no, I continue to refer to him as Daddy Cool well beyond him begging me to stop. And several more times as necessary over the years when a reminder is necessary.
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    Rectangle - +2.5 hr. ago Asking the question that will be on everyone's mind - why did you stay in this job?! robbo2233
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    Font - SubstantialTerm3843 OP . 4 hr. ago Someone like that grinds you down to nothing. I had serious depression and anxiety as a result of working for him, you end up in a survival mode state of mind. How to avoid the next outburst, how to stay quiet and out of the way. You don't think about improving your situation or how you deserve better.
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    Font - I stayed five years until I was offered a job unsolicited by one of our customers. If it hadn't have been for that kind of rescue deal I would have stayed under that abuse years longer. My colleague stayed ten years until the company went bankrupt.
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    Font - ClockSaint 4 hr. ago Making lightsaber noises when you have a long thin object in your hand is only natural, the rest is Daddy CoolTM s
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    Font - SubstantialTerm3843 OP . 4 hr. ago The only time I ever got him to stop that was by saying "worked out real well for the Star Wars Kid"
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    Font - chippingsodbury · 3 hr. ago I worked in a shop with a boss. Too many stories to go into, I could write a book. But the best time was when I told him I wanted a pay rise. He shut me straight down... said he couldn't afford it. I said I was leaving in that case. It wasn't a bluff. The next day he came in and offered me more than I was asking for (his wife told him to).
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    Font - w1987g +2.3 hr. ago "Seriously, imagine a man that has never in his life held a stick or pole without swinging it around making lightsaber noises." Soo... all men?
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    Font - SubstantialTerm3843 OP • 3 hr. ago This was the man men see and clear their throat and look away, resolved never to do this thing again.
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    Gesture - filthy_hobbitses27 · 3 hr. ago Is your ex-boss Michael Scott's cousin or something?
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    Font - SubstantialTerm3843 OP 3 hr. ago The Office wasn't released when I worked for him. We knew him as kind of a cross between the comic shop book guy from the simpsons, 2000s era Jack Black and Rumplestiltskin.

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