Recently, we shared a viral Reddit thread in which people shared the most insulting thing their bosses ever said to them, and there were some definite jaw-droppers in the bunch:
—melificent
4.“I politely asked my boss for an availability change due to religious obligations, and he told me I had to choose between my job and God.”
—abbagem
5.“I’m very allergic to nuts, and a colleague was eating trail mix near me. My cheeks became red and warm, so I took a Benadryl, and while I was waiting for it to kick in, my boss’s boss said, ‘You know that nobody takes you seriously when you look like a clown, right?'”
—jamontoast
6.“My boss told me I ‘dropped the ball’ by going into labor on my due date.”
—jennifersanchezl
7.“I had to quit my job as a sous chef because my father was dying and my sister and I were the only ones taking care of him in in-home hospice. When I told my boss why I was quitting, he screamed, ‘Everyone dies — it’s not like you can save him!’ Then he lamented that he wished he could just hire robots.”
—ebryan79
8.“My boss told me that I was really pretty, but that I needed a boob job to be the ‘whole package.’ She then proceeded to tell me the different options and what size she thought would look best on me.”
—joyceg42a2e81f4
9.“I’m a Malaysian living in the UK, and I worked at a fast food place when I was a student here. During my first week, my boss asked me to leave my station to take an order from an Asian customer. ‘You look alike, yes?’ she asked, ‘Maybe you’ll understand him better.’ From his accent, I could tell…he was British.”
“She hadn’t even talked to him yet, she just assumed he couldn’t order a burger.”
—kwakhyeyu
10.“I worked at a bakery for four years and loved my job. But when I mentioned to my manager that the freezer door would shut automatically behind me and my coworkers, locking us in, she stopped giving me shifts. Months later, I emailed her, and she told me that they’d given my job to someone else because I was a ‘whiny bitch.’ I never set foot into that store again.”
—laurenb4253fe9dd
11.“I went back to work after a long period off after losing my daughter, and my manager said, ‘Don’t worry — you’re still young enough to have another.'”
—booma25
12.“My former boss told me that my being a married gay man made everyone uncomfortable because he and his friends couldn’t ‘be guys’ around me.”
—seanmy
13.“I went to a manager to report that a coworker had made threats about raping me, saying that if he shut the door of the maintenance closet no one would have any idea what he was doing in there. My manager responded, ‘This store is big enough — you can stay away from him.'”
—bashfullocket7
14.“I wear a hijab, and my former boss once said that I’d look so much prettier without that towel on my head.”
—basimahm
15.“I was made Fire Marshall of the building, which meant that during a fire drill — or real fire — I had to be the last one out to make sure everyone got out of the building. My boss told me I was selected because I didn’t have kids or a family to go home to. So basically, I was selected to die because I was childfree and single.”
—PHM8
16.“My coworker and I were both scheduled to come in late one day. Well, he beat me to work by a few minutes, and when I walked in, I joked, ‘Aww, you beat me here. You’re making me look bad.’ My boss, who heard, responded, ‘Trust me, you don’t need anyone else to make you look bad.’ My coworkers fell silent, and I just laughed awkwardly from pure embarrassment.”
—emilyf48d8154cd
17.“I had a boss tell me once, ‘We’ll talk when you are less emotional.'”
—cristinaarballo16
18.“I had to get an emergency hysterectomy, and my boss told me that if I went through with the surgery my man would leave me because I’d be a ‘useless woman.'”
—amandap24
Some responses have been edited for length and clarity.
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