Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job? (Closed)

I work for the department of corrections in the states and actually like my job for the most part because it relates directly to public safety. My exact role is maintenance and I supervise an offender work crew that does maintenance around the facility.

When I first started the job it was at a high level state prison and I was given nearly %100 autonomy to order parts and materials and higher contractors as needed and there was never any issues as I got my work done. When I was hired I realized pretty quickly that the department was understaffed and it remained sodue in part to the facility location and the slow process of job posting and interviews which could all take 6 months.

A year and a half into my career was when the head of the agencies maintenance came and told us we were going to be privatized and we had 3 choices of transferring, getting on with the private company ( never a good idea because the pay is so much worse ) or resign. I ended up taking a transfer and this is where things changed. My new not official boss decided that I didn't know how my pay schedule was when I was at the first facility despite my having twenty months of payroll forms that stated otherwise. It took a superintendent from another facility to show he was wrong and he never apologized to me for treating me like I was stupid.

The next time was him yelling at me about something trivial and doing it in front of my inmate workers, this happened twice and even though he apologized it wasn't in front of the workers. He regularly referred to almost everyone as a dumbass and stupid and his racism was just subtle enough that it would be very difficult to prove to HR. Thankfully he's working at another state agency and is their problem now but he's not the worst boss and he was better than the one he replaced when I was working for him but that's for another story.

BP staff please remove my last name so that I don't have to deal with workplace retribution.

Boss/owner once asked me (in front of the other employee) if my wife and I were swingers.

I was working as a CNA (certified nurse assistant) at a nursing home and I had barely been there a week. I was put on night shift and was told I had the area with the bed ridden people to myself, no help. That area needed 2 people (turning patients who were unable to move so they didn’t get bed sores as an example). The nurses sat all night at a desk and wouldn’t assist when I needed help. I was yelled at and told I wasn’t working fast enough. People had to lay in urine because I couldn’t get help. In the morning, I went home and saw my mom watching TV. I was heading downstairs to my bedroom when I had a seizure in the stairway (my seizures were controlled for 13 years prior to this). When I came too, my parents let me know and I went to sleep. Later that day, I woke up and my dad drove me to see the head of office at the nursing home. I told her how the night went and how concerned I was for not being able to give proper care because the nurses wouldn’t help. The lady looked at me and said I wouldn’t never amount to anything if all I was going to do was complain and be lazy. I quit on the spot. I was in college for nursing and it was hard to see how poorly the people were treated. The place went out of business about a year later.

Not since I became self-employed. Before that it was the 'rule' not the exception.