People Are Opening Up About Their Coworkers From Hell, And These 40 Stories Are Horrifying

Gretchen. Worked in a small office (5 people). To save money, I kept things to make a sandwich (bread, cheese, etc) in a designated drawer in the office fridge. Noticed these things would disappear, even though I didn’t need them. Finally saw the package in her trashcan and said something to her. She got really upset, went to the boss, had to have a sit down. “Gretchen was really offended you accused her of stealing your food.” Had to apologize to her directly. When sitting down with her, she said she got really upset because when she was a kid people would accuse her of stealing things all the time. That’s because you did, Gretchen!

Worked for a manager for about 6 years. In that time probably was told I was doing a good job a handful of times. I worked my butt off and always took his feedback to heart and tried to improve. He had an impossible expectation of perfection and never gave me anything above a good rating on annual reviews. I liked the company and people I worked with so I toughed it out. He eventually retired and since he left all of my reviews have been above expectations without any change in my work or attitude. I work just as efficiently as I did before but the new manager that was hired actually recognizes my work contributions.

Incredible lazy guy, he had new excuses all the time be be away, relatives died, car stolen, train not moving etc. turned out all was just lies.

A guy had a crush on me and worded it weirdly to me that he was thinking of leaving his gf and kid for "someone else" literally describing that 'someone' with my hair color and personality traits. It was obviously me, we kind of flirted sometimes but I didn't know he had a gf or a kid. He was 19 and had literally never brought them up in 5 months of knowing him... But I told him he should stay with his gf and kid, that would be terrible to tear the family up. And he was like "Yeah but it happened when we were so young, and we aren't in love" etc etc. but I said no, you should stay with them. (plus I am in no way looking to get involved with someone with kids, at 18..) Shortly after a rumor started that I was trying to make him leave his family for me. The girl who worked in cosmetics was this massive goth mommy who started being mean and complained about me openly in front of our boss. Or just blatantly insulted me sometimes in group meetings. I think she came off worse than I did for that though. And generally my coworkers started all being awful. One of my coworkers who was new came up to me and told me she overheard him and he was the one spreading all the rumors and it confirmed to me it was all him. (I thought it could've been the goth girl too since she was a close family friend of theirs, hated me, and maybe saw us flirting ((which I stopped immediately after knowing he was super taken))). But yeah. F**k that guy. Poisoned like 5 coworkers against me. Maybe even my boss too, they were chatty.

My boss was also insufferable though. One coworker would go "I C 10" to signal a hot girl so he could come and ogle her and flirt with her at the front... It was awful and obvious, and f*****g creepy.

I worked with a girl who kept telling the manager that I confided with her that I didn’t like certain colleagues.

She got me in trouble and what’s worse is I never said any of those things.

I think she had problems with these people and she was trying to show the boss others didn’t like them either. I can’t tell if she was so stupid that she didn’t realise that I would get in trouble or if she was just a horrible person.

Rich: This sales guy that got promoted to mid manager back in 1992. I got laid off right after (coincidence?) and was actually glad to be done with that drunk, misogynistic, evil, lying prick.

Got rehired in 1999 and he came up while catching up. Turned out he was a coke fiend at the time and got fired for blacking out at an intersection. His wife left him and took his kid.

Told the person to point out the street he's sleeping on so I can p**s on him.

Guy I worked with at a help desk. He was an absolute a*s to all his co-workers and his management. He literally shoved a manager once and didn't get fired. He would bully and belittle anyone he felt was dumber than him (spoiler alert, this meant everyone). That didn't get him fired either. People gave him c**p once because he had like 9 kids. Went to HR and complained about that. We got told that we were not allowed to make fun of him at all for any reason. He continued to give us c**p about everything. People on the team finally got sick of it and just froze him out. Refused to speak to him unless it was work related. He went to HR and complained about it being a hostile workplace. We got griped at about that. At least three different managers went to HR and tried to have him fired. HR wouldn't fire him because he actually got widgets made. They claimed that him not getting along with anyone was not a valid reason to terminate an employee. Meanwhile he gaslit the living c**p out of anyone who would listen to him and other people in the company thought our team was filled with a--holes who just tormented this guy for no reason whatsoever. Management started doing anything they could to make the job uncomfortable for him hoping he'd quit and he went to HR every single time and got management yelled at every single time. Eventually he finally got tired of it and quit. Then he pretended we were all his best friends and talked about how much he missed his "work family." I hate that guy so much.

Colly. Boomer outside salesman who constantly threw inside sales people under the bus AND behind their back, hated by the entire office AND most customers. He didn't get fired until after I left that place, but multiple co-workers messaged me to tell me the good news.

A sales manager, who was one of the brothers in a family business I worked for. He screamed at everyone all the time and had a superiority complex. Everyone walked on eggshells around him. He would dictate to me and make me write down his emails to clients word for word and then have me type it up for him to approve. He’d literally scream at me and say that what I’d written was “low class” and demand I redo it, and he’d tell me how to redo it, and this would go on and on through multiple drafts, and somehow it was always my fault that he didn’t like his own words. If I made any changes to make it better he’d yell at me because I’d made changes. I was not his administrative assistant, by the way. I finally couldn’t take it anymore and I quit after a few months. They wondered why turnover was so high there.

Jean-Marie. A really nasty man, always looking for a verbal fight. If you said black, he said white, if you then said white, he said gray... Mosogynist, lazy, would only do what he want, would try to correct his coworker/manager in front of other people, annoyed so much people trying to find one who was neutral was hard...

I work for an kind of govermental office. It employs "fonctionnaire" who are civil servants with a non breakable contract, obtainable by competitive entrance examination. He was one of them, almost at retirement age when he became my colleague. He was tranfered from the field work he did as a disciplinary action, because he decided to change the content of a batch of wood after it was sold to a sawyer.

He couldn't get fired because of his contract, so he was transfered to the office, to work as an "assistant to the director". His colleagues on the field were so happy that he was transfered that they made a farewell party (without him). He was then affected to the records and to the land registry. As such, he had to work with the person in charge of the land registry. But as he was not directly under her command, he never really followed what she would say. He even tried to correct her reports...

He waited until the last minute to retire (he was 61 when he was transfered, and 66 when he retired). As he ouvertly said : "I will stay as much as I can to be a pain in the bottom of every body".

After he retired, he continued to come to the office for almost a year to use the printer for an association who is anti my company, and to copy confidentials documents... It continued until we had a new director who menaced to sue him.

I tried to be civil with him, but stopped even speaking to him (outside work) after he told me that numbers can be twisted to say anything, after I showed him a scientific paper that was proving something against his beliefs.

An incompetent mid-level boomer manager who's 20 years older than me.

He performs his tasks with the simple click of a button. If there's anything requiring his approval, he approves it without even reviewing it. When someone asks a question, he forwards it to me for an answer. He's like a transparent window – everything that comes his way simply passes through. He doesn't provide any added value whatsoever, making him more of a liability than an asset to the company.

Unfortunately, his own manager doesn't seem to care. Any errors or missed deadlines are always attributed to me, yet I never receive credit when tasks are completed successfully.

After a year, I decided to resign. I tried to have him removed from the company by raising my concerns to the senior management. I refused to continue tormenting myself by doing his job.

There's this dude in accounting that doesn't seem to know when to stop talking. And by talking I mean bragging. Loves to tell everyone how much he spends on everything. New truck, 90k. New pool, 130k, medical bills, 30k. Says it's no big deal as he just writes it all off on taxes and gets it all back. I think there's maybe 1 or 2 people in the building that generally like to hear what he has to say, most just zone out or talk to other people. I was listening to him talk about what to get his son as a first vehicle and he seemed dead set on buying a brand new sports car...

I worked with an insufferable know it all that was an expert in everything, would repeat the same thing 20 times in a sentence. Would constantly say how right she was (even if she wasn’t) or a stream of “I told you so”. She couldn’t do anything wrong, always someone else’s fault.

And she’d remind people that she never actually needed to work as her husband earned loads. Would constantly get newer items as things would “bore her”

Nobody liked her, even cleaning sites would tell her to leave because of how full of s**t she is.

John. F**k John. He was my boss, never missed a day and thought nobody else should either. He was sick, came in and laid on the floor behind his desk. Huge snowstorm, walked to work though it took an hour. Then got pissed when I told him my car slid out of control going down a hill outside my subdivision but I managed to get turned around and go back home. Apparently I didn’t try hard enough. So many ways he was a total d**k and just didn’t understand why he never got promoted. I was so glad when he finally left the company. Get f****d, John.

Walter. He was like the example of the worst human being. He was so fake at life and being a human. He treated his gf as a s"machine and would say about her parents"they let me f**k their daughter, they feed me, drive me to work and provide a house" how lucky did he have to get for that? Dude was homeless before that.

I’m working with him now. The guy is one of those who refuses to do the most basic parts of the job and then whines like a 5 year old when he gets called out on it. He’s great when you give him a project to do but then he uses that as an excuse to not do anything else he’s supposed to do. He’s also a one-upper and so freaking obsessed with himself he probably has sex like that scene in American Psycho where he does poses in the mirror. And last but not least the guy is a misogynistic asshat and racist. Unfortunately we’re always short staffed so he’ll probably never be fired. He keeps talking about finding a new job but with his attitude I doubt he’ll ever get hired anywhere.

Hunter. Embodies the manlet incel stereotype like he's playing the part. Absolutely hates women like to the point you can't bring up anything negative relating to your spouse without him chiming in something about them all being bi**hes 😒. He knows how to do next to nothing completely misrepresented his skills and experience during his interview so has to constantly rely on others for help with tasks or will deliver a string of excuses why he can't do something. Constantly interjects himself in conversations he's not needed or wanted in. And to top it all off he's a transphobic, bigot, MAGAt who thinks the cases against the former president and his ilk are "a bunch of b******t"

I worked with two of them at the same place. And our company was only 12-14 employees at any given time. It's like the anti-jackpot.

Employee 1: He was an older guy. He would make racist jokes all the time. He also would play his country music out loud, which was very distracting. He's also try to whistle to the music but couldn't carry a tune nor follow a melody. He was an awful whistler. I'd be on the phone and he would turn his music louder just to be a d**k. I don't really get offended about anything but I know what is/isn't appropriate in the workplace. He once made a joke about Jews and I jokingly put an HR complaint form on his desk. My other coworker knew it was a joke and laughed about it. Well this guy got upset and called me a piece of s**t. So apparently he likes making jokes but doesn't enjoy it when others make them.

Employee 2: This guy was a year younger than me (early 30s at the time) and other coworkers would comment about how they always thought he was a lot younger because of how he acted. He would also play his music loudly, but it was EDM. He really liked the Baby Einstein's theme techno remix. He'd play that often. He would also whistle to it but he was just as bad at whistling. He would also always comment about how manly he was and how fit he was. The guy was scrawny and didn't even do anything considered traditionally manly. He just thought he was manly because his wife did EVERYTHING for him. Made his breakfast, lunch, and dinner and cleaned everything. He'd also brag about how he never would get offended by anything. He once referred to himself as a Paki and I asked him about it since I've known Pakistani people who claimed that was a slur. He agreed it was and told me his sister wanted him to stop saying it but he didn't think it was an issue. I would think that using a word your own people find offensive would be an easy thing to stop doing but he thought everybody just needed to get over it.

I had a manager, who suffered from a major napoleon complex.

I know he was going to be "special" when before the Fantasy Football competition someone made a joke about themed team names like Quarinteam. Of course he immediately signed up with Quarinteam as his team name, and only changed it after the pressure was put on him.

If I ever asked anyone besides him a question (or even talked to anyone else) he would freak out. Got upset when others (including the ceo) would ask for my opinion, and asked me to clear it with him first. When I started bombarding him with the request I guess he sent me my job description, and asked if I fit it! The best part is it was the wrong job description.

I also tried to transfer, and was given a lecture on how I was trying to undermine him. I got told saying "clear the calender" met I didn't take him seriously. Oh yea, and I was an onsite employee and he was remote. As soon as I left he transferred departments, he undermined himself I guess. I could go on for pages about this d******d.

S. Would literally backstab you in daylight. Thought she was always right and needed to "help" everyone else. Condescending as f**k, but a political snake, so total a*s kisser. Caught her in several outright lies and falsified work that had to be redone or just wrong. Talked over everyone in meetings and always had to have the last word. Is now a people manager.