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Might be the woman who pulled a knife on me. Could be the guy who called the union and filed a grievance every time I told him to do something. Probably the woman who hated all white people and told me that she wouldn't listen to me because I oppressed her people.
Worst was one guy who was a brilliant engineer. Really knew his job. But absolutely couldn't not get along with anyone. Turn over in his section was horrible because he would drive new hires away within a few weeks/months. Tried several times to get rid of him, but senior managers would always buckle and give him another chance because he was so technically good. Tried to tell them that no matter how good he was, he was still a cost and liability drain because he couldn't work with anyone and caused more problems than he was worth.
That said, the worst people I have worked with have all been supervisors. I seriously would have fired some of them if they had ever worked for me before they became supervisors. We're talking drunk at work, racist, sexist, harassers here, not your run of the mill poor boss. This was a guy who would lean back in his chair, spread his legs, and pretend to masturbate in front of everyone, women included, to show that he didn't like what you had to say. And yet management protected this pig.
I had one who actually scared me. He was a Satanist (but that wasn't it or maybe just a little bit) he had a very creepy vibe and my boss loved to schedule him in the early morning with just me when I first started out as a manager. I had my back turned from him and he took a piece of my hair out of my head. He probably did some voodoo crap with that hair..but had zero control over him. He was lazy, gossiped and read magazines. I felt at a lost on how to deal with him, and he was older than me by a couple of years..just an odd ball. The Creepy Dude. I just remember feeling pissed every time I saw him on my schedule for the day. I guess felt he would freak out one day...
A lower level male employee whose sexual harassment of several female co workers got to the point where they went as a group to human resources to register a joint complaint. He was fired the next morning. Several years later I was browsing through Facebook and there he was listing his occupation as a regional manager of a large insurance company.
I was only in a management role for a couple of years before I couldn't stand it anymore (kudos to supervisors/managers who can deal with it) but the ones who tried to sabotage other people to save their own hind ends (aka throwing them under the bus) were the worst, imo. The truth usually came out eventually.
We had a young lady who called in 'sick' every Monday. She partied too hard over the week-end and I am pretty sure she was hungover. She would pick a buddy in the office to take smoke breaks with (we had a no-smoking policy so they would clock out and go outside) and to hang out with after work. The 2 of them would pick other women at random in the office and make their life miserable just being generally mean to them and making fun of them.
I think her personal life was so sh*tty she wanted everyone else to be miserable too.
She only lasted 6 months
We hired someone to work in a remote position for our company. Everything was fine for a couple years, then we started getting complaints. Found out he'd "sublet" the work to an illegal immigrant who was cutting major corners
I had an employee who had been my peer for over 10 years. We all worked in different cities remote from each other, so I didn't know much about his work, but he seemed like a great guy. Very sweet personality, seemed conscientious, the whole deal. I thought of him as a person who was proud of his work, did a great job, and was well liked by the IT users he supported. I could not have been more wrong.
When I bcame his manager...wow. About 2 weeks after I became his manager, he was awol from work for 2 days, then called on the 3rd day to say that he had been in jail for domestic abuse. Then his wife got a restraining order and he kept violating it, which got him locked up some more. I took another employee and went to the emoloyee's city to get things caught up and do some reassurance with local management, and found that his work was way, way behind, he was apparently drinking on the job and had a gun in his desk.
He was referred to the employee assistance program for counseling, and in the middle of all this the areas were reconfigured and he was no longer my employee (yay). The last I heard, he was refusing to come to work and the current manager was working with HR to terminate him.
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