Leigh Branham, author of The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, revealed that 89 percent of bosses believe employees quit because they want more money. As much as the managers would love this statistic to be true (because it would basically mean they do not contribute to workplace dissatisfaction), it's simply not true.
A recent study by Flexjobs discovered that employees are stuck in jobs they dislike and that about 30% of them want to quit, while 25% quit their job in the last six months. (Of those, 68% did so without having another job lined up.) The survey of 2,202 workers gave the following five top reasons for saying, "Take this job and shove it": toxic company culture (62%), low salary (59%), poor management (56%), lack of healthy work-life boundaries (49%), not allowing remote work (43%). So as we can see, the higher-ups are often the problem themselves.
And there's an online discussion that shows all the reasons how they become one. Some time ago, Reddit user ColossusXT made a post on the platform, asking others to share the exact moment they realized that the boss they were working for "was actually just an idiot that makes more money than you." And many did; so far, the post has 1,636 comments. To make your life easier, Bored Panda has scrolled through all of them and picked out the most interesting ones.
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#21
When I worked in construction, the director was a guy who couldn't use Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. Like at all. He couldn't even (or wouldn't even) open a blank page. He also didn't know what sequence design worked, didn't know what piles were, and read contracts on the fly. He just had a very commanding presence and talked like a politician. But you talked to him about details for 10 minutes and you learned he didn't know S**T. Like he seriously bullshitted his entire career with gift of gab.
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49points
#22
She has no idea about basic 101 things related to our industry that a fresh intern could demonstrate on the spot. Now, every job I do I have to explain from the beginning what it is, why we're doing it and why it's important. She nods, makes an "insightful" comment, then forgets it completely. I'm the only one on my team with actual experience in certain areas, and naturally have to do all the work in those areas. When it comes time for the credit, it's a "team effort" where she led from the front.
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47points
#24
I worked for a production company that never put a dollar into advertising our products.
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42points
#25
When he keeps asking me why the inventory looks "dirty" (physically dirty) and doesn't care about the accuracy of it.
My job doesn't even have anything to do with the warehouse. I'm an ops analyst
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35points
#26
I worked for a mid-sized engineering and manufacturing company. The owner had started the company from scratch. He had several patents to his name,proprietary machining processes, and a loyal costumer base.
His son, not so much. Nepotism ruined the company. You couldn't keep qualified staff and needless to say, that loyal customer base disappeared in short order.
The son I'm sure made bank, just not long term.
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35points
#27
She needed to send an e-mail to somebody really important. So she forwarded me a long e-mail exchange they had and told me which one of those e-mails needed to be replied to. Instead of replying herself she wanted ME to replay but she e-mailed me what I had to reply with. She included an image she needed me to insert into the body of the e-mail. She didn't know how to insert an image into the body of an e-mail and is why I had to send this e-mail from MY e-mail account on HER behalf.
The image she wanted me to insert was a screenshot of nothing but text. It was about 6 words.
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35points
#28
Asks me to do stuff that helps no one or makes nothing better. He has us doing stuff that he literally can't explain why.
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32points
#29
She told me to look up something, what she asked me to look up she had access to. It took her 5 minutes to come to my office to ask me to look up something that would’ve taken her .3 seconds to look up on her own computer. Also she had no idea the other CSR had for years not charged people for services and the other was taking two hour lunches and two 45 minute breaks. She was an absolute idiot that was paying five people to do the work of two.
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31points
#30
My boss thinks he is a programmer.
(SQL) He told me he did not like that I have one table that contains both active and inactive computers with a field that indicates active\inactive and told me (demanded) tha I should create 2 tables one for each computer state.
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25points
