15 : " My husband was in the ICU , having nearly died from a very aggressive bout of pneumonia , when his boss called him and tell him he had to be at workplace the next day because he had just used up all his sick days . "

Here are 22 shocking responses:

1.“While I was working as a prep cook, the owner asked me to continue production on mac ‘n cheese that had metal shavings in it.”

" The machine used to shred the cheese was in disrepair , with metal parts rubbing against each other — ensue in the product of metal shave . aver paring were dropping right away into the cheddar cheese tall mallow . I could not believe my capitulum when my gaffer told me to keep going and mix the cheese with the other ingredients to nail the formula ! The whole time this was going on I could n’t discontinue thinking about how I was lead to resign . "

— Anonymous

2.“I was in the first trimester of my pregnancy, and I kept having to get up from my desk to go throw up. My boss called me in and said I was getting up too much. I needed to stay at my desk.”

" I inform her that I was pregnant and having a hatful of good morning sickness throughout the day . I asked if any of my employment was later ( there were lots of fast deadline ) . She let me hump I was n’t previous and she did n’t care if I was meaning . I require to stay at my desk . So , I asked her where was I presuppose to hurl up . She replied , ' In a waste field goal at your desk . ' So I returned to my desk , inform the other five people that shared the power with that I would be throw up in the room , per the boss ’s order , and that I was bad . I left the job as shortly as the task was completed . shady matter was , the chief called me about three months by and by , asking if I was interested in coming back to work on on a Modern projection . I laugh and said I ’d never work for her again . "

3.“I had an awful boss at a frozen yogurt place. An accident with a sauce pump caused me to lose the eyesight in my right eye, shattered my eyebrow bone, and there was blood pouring from my face.”

" The political boss tell me I needed to pass over the blood off and complete my duty period . I take the air out and got airlifted three hours away . A pearl from my brow lop my optic nerve . I post the labour control panel and workers comp after them . The stage business owner move belly-up . "

— Flamingosforlife

4.“My boss had given everyone the day off to celebrate the successful launch of a product. I went in because I had some paperwork I wanted to finish and use the company gym.”

" When he saw I was in , he told me the day was for everyone BUT ME as he need me to surrender thegunhe had send to the office to his house . "

– Anonymous

5.“When I was a customer service manager, one of my employees was caught watching porn at the desk. Thankfully another employee caught him and not a customer. Anyway, for proof, I remoted into the computer, and sure enough, porn popped up on my screen.”

" I reported it to the general manager , who said he demand to see it before we could do anything . He walked me to my berth , told me to sit in my chairperson , and hit child’s play , and remain firm behind me and watch over the whole video . I was 27 ; he was in his 60s . "

— smg00014

6.“This was a number of years and jobs ago, but the company CEO lived in England most of the time but came into our office once or twice a year (in Canada). He usually came for a couple weeks, so a residential suite was rented for him. It had everything he needed there, including a kitchen and in suite laundry. He actually asked me to go over to the suite and do his laundry for him.”

" I was n’t even his assistant but the assistant of the managing collaborator . uncalled-for to say , I refused and set up a dry cleaning company that would beak up and deliver his cleaning . I left shortly thereafter . "

7.“I worked for a small property management company about 10 years ago. While I was microwaving my lunch, my employer stormed into the kitchen and yelled at me, asking why I wasn’t washing dirty dishes in the sink while waiting.”

" I had no cue why I had to . I was the only other distaff Asian employee there . "

— crispyfish88

8.“My husband’s boss once told all of his department employees to go to court with him and give a good character witness testimony in his upcoming divorce.”

" My husband refuse as he knew the guy was a cretin and deserved all he get in the bad divorcement . "

9.“I prematurely went very gray in my 20s. I was working as an executive assistant that also manned the reception desk at the time. My female boss told me that the higher bosses had agreed that I needed to color my roots more frequently, as I was the first face people saw in the office, and was representative of them.”

" I was appal she could in reality say that out loud . I always dressed professionally , but it was so expensive to distort my whisker literally every six weeks , and they sure enough would n’t be paying my salon bills . I left after that yr , thank God . "

10.“I had an office/clerk job right out of school. My boss was taking a night class, and he had me do his homework.”

" He also had me fill out his Word ’s college software , including write the essays . I put up with it because we had an billet kitten and I was attached to that minuscule testicle of bagatelle . Even though I did n’t leave office , I was there when the state of matter shut the business down for lack of ante up taxis . I sustain the cat . "

— c49a679543

11.“Worked at a satellite office for a small company and had to go to the HQ for training my first week. When I went to the break room to get some coffee, one of the plant workers came in and said that I should leave some money next to the coffee pot. Thought he was joking, but no, he said they deducted coffee money from everyone’s paycheck there.”

" When I asked my boss a few minutes later , he confirmed it and said I should regard myself very favorable because they did n’t have that policy at the satellite office where I would be ferment since it was only four people there . Should have persist for the hill right then and there but ended up working for that frightful man and company for almost three years of hell . "

12.“I was hired as a trainee at a donut kiosk in a mall. My first day, the owner, who had just been fired from a corporate job, had me, a 16-year-old, rearrange his stockroom by myself, then told me what a bad job I did of it. He never trained me to do anything and put me down when I didn’t know how to do the things he was being paid by the government to train me for.”

" The worst thing was that I never had a lunch break , and make beyond my paid hours every shift . When I finally go out , he fudged my timesheet to make it look like I had breaks every day and did no overtime , so I reported him to the traineeship department . "

— ricmauger

13.“My boss had me pay for her car payment with my own money because there wasn’t enough in accounts receivable.”

" Then when we got paid by advertisers , I would recoup myself . "

14.“My boss called me into his office to ask me to go get something he left in his car. I pointed out that it was crazy storming outside and pouring rain in sheets.”

" He reached behind his desk and grabbed something ; it was an umbrella . He could n’t realize why I had an issue with this request when he was so nicely provide me with an umbrella . "

15.“My husband was in the ICU, having nearly died from a very aggressive bout of pneumonia, when his boss called him and told him he had to be at work the next day because he had just used up all his sick days.”

" Needless to say , he was ineffective to depart the ICU infirmary bed and show up at work the follow day , just because he had used up his three sick of day for the year ! "

16.“I had a boss who wanted to know where I was 24/7 ‘just in case I need you’ and would get very upset when I refused.”

" The occupation was n’t open 24/7 , and did n’t solve on deadlines . She also endeavor to get another director fired for having an after - hour side gig that did n’t interfere with his employment at our company . And breaks for employees were ' a waste of time , ' although she took smoke breaks every half - hour or so .

She want to be driven to and from piece of work daily , a total of 17 mile out of my fashion , with no recompense for time or gasoline mileage . Her employee were bear to work without earnings on whatever was her current family betterment task . "

17.“My boss and I were both pregnant at the same time with her two months ahead of me. She overheard a conversation I was having with a coworker where I divulged our baby’s name. Lo and behold, it was the same one my boss had chosen, too.”

" She did n’t speak to me for three days until I was finally call in into her government agency , and the blowing up begin . I was floored at the thing she was saying to me , and at the tail close of her yelling , my boss ultimately asked me to deepen our Word ’s name . I respectfully decline . "

18.“Had a boss tell me that I shouldn’t date my then-girlfriend because it was long distance and it would affect my sales numbers.”

" He inquire me to terminate the relationship . I got a new occupation , wed the missy , and have two awful kids . "

19.“My boss wanted me to cancel my prepaid non-refundable trip to Italy because we got a big job in that was time sensitive.”

" I enjoin him fine , but he would have to reimburse me and my married woman for the stumble . He did n’t think that was his responsibility and that I want to put the ship’s company first since , without the company , I could n’t go on the trip in the first home . I went to Italy . They did n’t get the problem , anyway . "

20.“A coworker was sick and had to go the hospital. It was determined she would have to go back to her home country to be cared for by her family.”

" However , she did not have money for the ticket there , so our foreman asked us all to pitch in and help bear for it for her . He make 6X what any of the rest of us make . He could have just pay himself . "

21.“My boss called me in his office and said I owed him since he had gotten me an increase in pay to be his secretary. He wanted to take me out to ‘dinner.’ I was young and very naive.”

" I said , ' I am look forth to meeting your married woman . ' I hazard I was understanding at that point . He said his wife was not total . I was quite sick of with him by then , but I had NO intention of doing what he had in mind . A short sentence later , he was transferred to another arm . I never see from him again . I did hear that Internal Affairs was investigating him , though . What a weirdie ! "

22.And finally…

" My boss asked me to do the online justificatory drive course FOR HIM ! ! ! He ’s a real piece of piece of work ! "

YIKES. Now I’m curious if you’ve experienced anything similar.

Work & Money article by Alexa Lisitza shares 23 unreasonable boss requests. Example: "My boss made us bring our own toilet paper to work."