Vote for your favorite crazy boss story
- Date: April 19th, 2007
- Author: Sonja Thompson
- Category: Geekend, Polls
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Member, Nomination, Submission Deadline, Blogging, Internet, Sonja Thompson
I posted a blog last week that asked TechRepublic members to submit their nominations for the Crazy Boss Hall of Fame. After reading a few of the submissions, I decided to make it into a contest. The member with the craziest boss story will win a TechRepublic coffee mug. The submission deadline is over, and so now it's time to place your votes for who you think should win the (consolation) prize, having endured such insanity.
The top 20 nominations are listed below. You can click each member's name to view his or her entire entry. Please vote only once — for the one person whose boss tops the rest in the crazy department. I'll tabulate the results on Monday, April 23, 2007, and announce the winner in a follow-up blog post.
Vote for your favorite "crazy boss" story
- maecuff: "small scabs all over his arms and he licked them all the time" (24%)
- david: "pull her pistol from her briefcase and lay it proudly on her desk" (16%)
- sapri: "would call me to her office to write her personal adds on a SWINGERS site" (11%)
- StuFisch: "play his ukelele while telling you bad news" (11%)
- LateNightLarry: "to 'reinforce' his authority over us, disabled computer access" (10%)
- boxfiddler: "keep all her employees in the dark about things we needed to know" (5%)
- artlife: "married her general manager - employees had to testify at divorce hearing" (3%)
- trillian_sk: "one of the analysts found all the error reports under his desk" (3%)
- jmgarvin: "[customers] will be safe and sound - not bleeding and dead on the freeway (3%)
- gadgetgirl: "every email printed and put into his in tray in 'day folder'" (3%)
- spacewarp: "wanted me to create 4 new mailboxes and sort her last 9 years of mail" (3%)
- bielinskit: "refused to pay for Virus Software that was approved for purchase" (3%)
- TiggerTwo: "pin the [email] printout to your chair and read it into voicemail" (2%)
- Why Me Worry?: "[He assumed] had the authority to have me clean his office" (2%)
- ljones: "explain your job to my husband, and that way he can explain it to me later" (2%)
- JamesRL: "jot notes down on the [email] printout and the admin send back replies" (0%)
- dryflies: "[The boss's wife] moved the printer into MY office without telling me" (0%)
- tony: "said never hire a woman - she will always want time off for knitting classes" (0%)
- Constantdrone: "bombs of misinfo to all, with strict orders not divulge the source" (0%)
- jgraham: "have the people in the office walk fast down the center aisle" (0%)
Total Votes: 63
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Sonja Thompson is a Senior Editor of TechRepublic. She is the host for the TR Out Loud blog, which includes a weekly video recap (TROLOV) and a community interview series (TR Member Spotlight). Read her full bio and profile.
