Bad Boss Stories

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A good friend is a teacher in a charter school and her principal has shown a repeated pattern of passive aggressively hiding behind email instead of discussing issues with his staff or with the individual who is creating ‘the problem’ directly.  This staff-wide reproach was just too good (read: atrociously awful) not to share.

The moral of this story for us is that if you have something that really bothers you and don’t know who is causing it, gather everyone together and discuss it in person.

At the very least it gives you plausible deniability.  Otherwise, you wind up with everyone laughing behind your back and forwarding your email to all their friends.  You just look like a complete jackass (hard to argue otherwise).

Subject: Disgusted Beyond Belief…

“I believe this email will be read by one person for whom this message applies. I hope the strength of it encourages you to be thoughtful enough or simply embarrassed enough to change your ways. I know I speak for everyone when I tell you this is unbelievably disturbing behavior for an adult. Please read below. There is actually no humor intended on any level in this message. It is written by someone who is deeply concerned, disgusted, and angry.

Dear adult who continues to pee all over the staff bathroom seat,

I have to believe that if you are a thinking, feeling adult with even a measure of humanity and decency that you must be deeply embarrassed and disappointed in yourself for repeatedly peeing all over the seat in the staff bathroom even after your colleagues have begged you to change that practice.

You are an adult so you must be fully aware that all you need to do to avoid peeing on the seat is lift it up. Really, all you have to do is lift it up and you won’t leave a disgusting mess behind. If that feels too disgusting for you to do, I find that both ironic and sad. All you need to do is grab a piece of toilet paper to put between your fingers and the seat as you lift it up.

I am really troubled that someone I hired comfortably does this nearly every day knowing that the privacy of bathroom use gives them anonymity.

It is the choice of a small child who does not know better. It is a choice that lacks humanity, citizenship, and basic decency. Really? This is so unbelievable to me. Really?

Why do you believe that it is up to us to clean up after you if we want to use the toilet ourselves or send a visiting adult to that bathroom?

If you make it a habit to let students use that bathroom, cease that practice immediately and let me know so I don’t worry about determining which adult is doing this.

I find this so disturbing that it is nearly worth putting a card reader security system in place to determine who is doing this and when.

I truly hope this email effects some change.”

- [name redacted to protect the horrible boss behind this mail]

Hope you find some solace in this and realize your boss could be worse.

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