How Bad is Your Boss?

Yahoo! News (via Reuters) reports that Working America, the non-union affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is running a contest to see just how incorrigible your boss can be.  You can go to the Working America website to enter into "My Bad Boss Contest."  The contest works like this:

Voting for the best worst-boss stories will be done by Web readers over the next six weeks. Each week's top vote-getter will be eligible to compete for the grand prize, a seven-night vacation getaway and $1000 for a round trip air fare, to be announced by August 16.

So far, the entries with the most votes include:

-- "Russ," whose table-thumping boss at a small Maryland company nixed bonuses, cut overtime and ordered managers to "instill fear" in workers to boost productivity, all because a competing company's owner had a more expensive car, and

-- "Graphics Girl," who left her Pennsylvania media company, and was publicly berated for doing so, after 10 years, including the last five where she worked 50 to 80 hours a week without overtime pay and often without seeing her children. "I missed birthdays and health and years of seasons changing since my office was in a basement with no windows, all for nothing," she wrote.

Don't think that these stories even come close to the glories of your own boss?  Enter and find out how bad you really got it.

Hat Tip:  Megan McGrew

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