25 Sketchy Moves Bosses Pulled That Killed Employee Morale

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Eric Lund
Jul 26, 2018 6:00 PM EDT

These bosses are either stupid or evil.

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    Text - ohboythisisit 27.4k points 21 hours ago edited 10 hours ago She actively tried to ban friendships. If co-workers became friendly she would schedule them so they would NEVER see each other. "You're here to work! Not to socialise!" She also banned everyone from coming into the workplace when they were not working. It was a pub. She banned socialising in a pub.
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    Text - ActualWhiterabbit 22.4k points 22 hours ago 1. Bought a manufacturing plant. 2. Fired everyone. 3. Tried to hire them back for $2 less
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    Text - VictorBlimpmuscle 21.7k points 23 hours ago To cut costs, they started a policy that only certain departments had internet access - it basically started a class system that bred resentment across departments, and caused an exodus from the non- internet teams.
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    Text - Lelentos 21.5k points 23 hours ago Large factory(Not Unionized). Each department clocks in at a different place, mainly that department's breakroom. My department clocked in across the facility from the main entrance, which meant it took about 15 minutes to walk from the front door to where you clocked in and out at, and another 5 to walk from that entrance to the parking lot. There was a side exit that we would use, however, that literally cut that walk down from 20 minutes to 3, since o
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    Text - FAHRENHEIT 311 21.2k points22 hours ago I used to work at a gas station/convenience store. Our manager was definitely cheap, but he brought it to a whole new level after he bought another gas station over 50 miles away. He started scheduling his pre-existing staff from my store to work in his other store, over 50 miles away. Some of us were still in high school, but he didn't give a shit. He refused to hire more people
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    Text - 23 hours ago laterdude 38.4k points Banned smart phones in the break room to force us to talk to one another and build camaraderie. Ends up we didn't like each other that much
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    Text - 20 hours ago wild_flower87 8.8k points Put up a poster that said "Complaining is like vomitting. You feel better but everyone around you feels sick.". The morale was already bad but it was just shitty way to take a hit at upset employees rather a than do anything positive
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    Text - 23 hours ago Emersonson 13.2k points Told a bunch of people they were going to be promoted to get us to do extra work, no one got promoted. I basically did her job for a month. Me and three of my co-workers quit and she got fired a few months later.
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    Text - heystopbanningme 14.8k points 22 hours ago Head of department realised that we weren't about to meet our targets for the financial year. Completely banned annual leave for 3 months, forced anyone who didn't fill in their timesheet on time to attend disciplinary meeting (despite problems with the system meaning that some didn't get filled in) and generally had lower management terrified, causing a massive blame culture and several people to be signed off with mental health issues. In the e
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    Text - 22 hours ago NotASucker 29.4k points "No raises or bonuses this year due to company performance, but I will make it up to you by taking the whole company to the lake for a trip on my new 30ft boat"
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    Text - TRAMAPOLEEN 14.8k points 22 hours ago held a super positive, pep rally style company wide meeting about how they were going to start combining our sick days with our vacation days and now just call them 'PTO.' This was presented to us as great thing, since we could all now use our PTO days fully as vacation days if we wanted to. Once the system was implemented, everyone realized that instead of getting 10 vacation days and 10 sick days per year, we now all had 15 PTO days. Everyone was pi
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    Text - DashCat9 11.3k points 21 hours ago 1 edited 14 hours ago Was working for EB Games when GameStop bought them. 20% of any warranty, and $1 for every subscription sold went into your paycheck as commission. And you'd never feel dirty selling the things, because Edge Magazine (EB's answer to Game Informer) and their extended warranties were legit and fairly priced GameStop buys the company. First thing they do? Nix the commissions. You still have to sell the stuff, of course. I'll never forge
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    Text - jmarsh642 21.1k points 22 hours ago My boss is looking to retire in the next 3-4 years. He told everyone that he wanted us to come up our visions for the company and it's future over the next 5, 10, 20 years. We're a small office of about a half dozen people but we've been growing and so everyone brought up growth projections and succession planning once he retires, etc. His son is the heir apparent and has a precocious 8 year old so in my 20 year version I even included the grandson join
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    Text - zeeker1985 20.4k points 23 hours ago In a company of 6 people, owner said in a meeting with everyone that his 2 sales guys are irreplaceable and that the rest of us are "just paper pushers".
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    Text - somethingsome567 16.7k points 23 hours ago Removed COLA raises each year for all employees and implemented a "raise when promoted or take on more responsibility" model. However promotions are very rare and raises are never approved. So everyone is losing money to inflation each year and they tried to sell it As a big 'win' for the employees. We aren't stupid people
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    Text - mrbasilthebrush 20.2k points 22 hours ago We were once in the middle of a very stressful period of work, and everyone was feeling it. However, one afternoon, an off-hand comment turned into a conversation that we all got involved with and led to few laughs. My manager, returning from a meeting, piped up "Oh we've finished tomorrow's work, have we? What's all this about (insert subject matter)" Entire team instantly deflated. Unnecessary. Every employee needs time to blow off a little stea
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    Text - Paranitis 12.7k points 22 hours ago Had a boss everyone loved, then she got transferred to another store and the new guy that replaced her decided the schedule that we'd all gotten used to needed to be "shaken up". He posted the next week schedule that was completely different than it had been under the previous manager, got a bunch of complaints from people saying they can't work x days or y times and it SEEMED he was receptive since he took that schedule down. Then suddenly BAM, he just
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    Text - 23 hours ago edited 17 hours ago hasslemind 16.4k points Casually said the best employee was X and everyone, including X, knew that X was among those who did the least amount of work.
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    Text - forever_a10ne 12.2k points 21 hours ago They banned phones, electronics, puzzles, books, etc. from being used at your desk. I work at a call center. We were expected to just sit and wait for the next call to come in "distraction-free," even if it was a super slow day.
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    Text - 23 hours ago hisloyalconcubine 15.6k points Fired the girl who was in her third trimester of pregnancy three days before her maternity leave was to start
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    Text - FeralGoatMonster 8.0k points 22 hours ago At an airplane factory: manager started rationing gloves, hairnets, masks, and trash bags at the same time we had to go on a 12x6 workweek, like that was gonna make up for the increase in labor.
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    Text - Son_of_Leeds 15.1k points 20 hours ago Former teacher. The administrators at my school were usually pretty chill, but had a habit of randomly coming up with minor rules that they would enforce for us (male teachers had to wear ties even on jeans day, etc.). Overall it wasn't bad, except for the time an administrator made a crucial mistake... they banned staff from drinking coffee in front of students. Now if you've never worked in a school, you'd think this isn't a big deal. When you spen
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    Text - 1oneself 10.0k points 22 hours ago Started firing people by lining two up at a time and seeing which one they prefer to keep on. Didn't matter if you were there for 20 years or 2. Also hiring management from outside and not promoting within which means the new managers have no knowledge of anything that company does in terms of ethics, procedures, or employee status. It has turned this 'clique' type environment into every person for themselves. Very toxic.
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    Text - Mister_Relaxo 15.0k points 22 hours ago .edited 5 hours ago It was a one two punch The company wide meeting announced the promotion of several high level management and executives (mostly title and responsibility changes). Lots of smiles and handshakes, not unlike a college graduation ceremony. After these promotion announcements, they declared that due to the stagnant economy and poor sales, the entire company would be experiencing a pay freeze as a result. So, no raises for anyone. They
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    Text - edited 18 hours ago haveatyee 9.3k points 22 hours ago Firing half the staff for no reason other than to "clean house" when new management caused the other half to leave as well. You wouldn't think it possible for a hotel to go out of business in less than 2 months but lo and behold it did just that.
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