“I’ve Never Seen So Many Resignation Letters In My Life”: 63 Dumb Bosses That Deserve To Be Fired

HR exists to protect the company, not the employee, and a manager who is technically hitting their numbers can usually get away with treating their staff like garbage for years before anyone above them notices or cares. That imbalance is exactly why so many people end up quitting a perfectly fine job just to escape one person.

A Gallup study of over seven thousand adults found that half of them had left a job specifically to get away from a bad manager, and a separate study from leadership firm DDI put that number even higher, with 57 percent of workers saying they'd quit specifically because of their manager and another third admitting they'd seriously considered it. People rarely leave good jobs. They leave bad bosses, and take whatever job happens to be attached.

So keep all of that in mind as you scroll through the stories below, because chances are the villain in each one isn't some cartoonish evil genius. They're probably just an underqualified, overpromoted, quietly insecure person who was never taught how to manage anyone, given a title, and then left completely unchecked.