I wouldn’t wish TMZ on anyone, especially a woman.

Sad!

YES! I am glad I am not the only one who thought this. That little dude is either going to: 1. Drown or 2. Burn. Also, he has no water and if he eats his only food supply he will hasten #1.

It’s a gorgeous computer-animated narrative about what happens when one leaf-cutter ant decides to follow his heart and abandon his colony. And maybe it applies to my life a little too much.

It was OK. But an ant on a leaf out past the surf would last what? Maybe a day or two? No way would he make it to anywhere he could survive, unless he was washed right back to shore.

So, I mean it was fine... but at what point were you sad? He just bails and goes surfing. Honestly, I would think ‘Jealous’ before “Sad’.

Get this: she got promoted so we could be rid of her (the new VP realized her worthlessness immediately). She failed at that (she was scored by the workers on her effectiveness and got a 23%. Company average is 75%) and got busted down to my level. She could not handle the workload and went out on stress disability…

I don’t think you ever really get over it. I am excellent at what I do, had been doing it for 15 years well, and my confidence took a massive bashing after 3 months. Only just rebuilding it now.

She hated learning. She called IT and yelled at them for an hour about a MS Office update because it changed the program icons “And now I can’t find anything!”

My boss thinks we’re all her best friends, which.....NO. We barely tolerate her. So if any two of us want to go to lunch or do something after work (like see a movie we’re both interested in), we have to make secret plans to do it when she’s on a business trip, because she gets all hurt we didn’t invite her. And if we…

I had one of those. She was also an alcoholic. I was the department secretary, but also her personal assistant, so one of her things, when she was feeling especially shitty, was to call in a coworker, scream at them, then, if she was still angry, call me in and make shit up to scream at me about.

It’s amazing what having a great boss will do for you. I’ve learned that great boss doesn’t mean friendly ‘mate’ either. It's someone who is responsible, fair, secure, confident and knows how to manage and develop people. It's a skill that few have.

I got in trouble for laughing at my Dickensian previous job, too! That place was so emotionally traumatizing. My boss didn’t like me because I was friends with everyone, and she felt intimidated/she just didn’t like people being friends, I guess?? My real-life friend who worked there before me told me that before I…

We were all overtime-exempt, so she didn’t even have that excuse.

Wow. How could you be over that? That shit leaves scars.

Nah, she was created in a lab by an evil scientist. I’m sure of it.

I went through a similar experience- the irrational rules, the golden child/stepchild dichotomy, the need for total control over employees. We had a “no laughing rule” implemented for a colleague and me, because “we couldn’t be working if we were also laughing,” never mind that our productivity was higher than anyone…

This sounds 100% like my old boss, right down to printing out every e-mail and requiring subordinates to come in EXACTLY on time. We also were not allowed to observe office weather delays, although she certainly took advantage. And I too endured legit PTSD symptoms while working for her. I wonder if we worked for the…

My nightmare boss gave me PTSD. Nightmares, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, depression...it took me years to get over.

I have an even worse problem: