Random Most Horrible Bosses (10 items)

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  (#4) Boss Takes Out Workers for Asking for Salaries

  In March 2009, a group of minibus drivers working in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod went on strike following a salary cut. The men - all Uzbek nationals - were especially upset because their boss not only cut their wages, but also took their passports. That meant they couldn't even leave the country.

  The strikers confronted their boss to demand payment, but things got heated when he took out a weapon and fired at the crowd. He wounded 47-year-old worker Aktam Khuzhamuratov and fled the scene. Khuzhamuratov passed later that day.
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  (#10) Boss Fires Employees for Putting Bird Seed Hex on Her

  In 2011, City Manager Lyndon Bonner announced layoffs and budget cuts, including some to the North Miami Police Department. Two employees, Officer Elizabeth Torres and secretary Yvonne Rodriguez, asked a janitor in Bonner's building if she would please sneak into his office and sprinkle birdseed all around it. It was part of a Santeria curse - from the Yoruba religion - designed to make the city manager want to leave his position.

  Instead, the janitor reported the request and the workers were both canned. 
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  (#2) Employees Forced to Get Birthday Tattoos - For Their Boss

  What would you do if someone demanded that you get their birthday tattooed on your neck? Even if that person was your boss? In 2010, an employee at Day and Night Spa in Mount Prospect, IL, told police that her boss Alex "Daddy" Campbell forced her to get three tattoos. One was a horseshoe - a "brand" he required of all his female employees - and another was the date of his own birthday (Sept. 17th - "917") on the back of her neck.

  But that was just the beginning. It turned out all the women working out the "massage parlor" were undocumented individuals from Belarus and Ukraine, and Campbell held on to their passports and visas. He forced a few into intimate encounters with him and one another and recoded them for blackmail purposes. 
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  (#1) Woman Donates Kidney to Boss, Gets Fired

  Debbie Stevens, a Long Island mother, donated a kidney to save her boss's life. The woman was then fired soon after, by the very same boss to whom she donated the kidney. After temporarily moving away and taking another job elsewhere, Stevens decided to visit her old town in Long Island and meet up with her former employer, Jackie Brucia.

  Brucia mentioned her health issues and discussed the potential donor lined up. In turn, Stevens, offered her own kidney if the original donor fell through. 

  A few months later, Stevens reached out to Brucia for a job. After securing employment, Brucia mentioned the donor fell through. Stevens quickly donated her kidney, which actually wasn't a perfect match, but it did help Brucia get up higher on the donor list. Stevens donated her kidney to someone else, so Brucia could have a quicker transplant. 

  Soon after the procedure, Brucia began hounding Stevens to show up to work, even though she was recovering from the very painful and difficult kidney operation.

  Stevens was subsequently assigned to another office 50 miles from her home in a high-crime neighborhood her co-workers jokingly called "Siberia." She was finally fired and took legal action against the company for its actions. 
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  (#5) Walmart Employees Disarm Thief, Save Lives, Get Fired

  Four Walmart employees in Utah were confronted by a robber and pushed into an office. One worker, in a heroic move, ripped the weapon away from the man and disarmed him until police arrived. After saving the day, they all got fired. According to Walmart, the employees were released for violating the store's policy on shoplifters, known as "AP09." ​​​​

  AP09 stipulates employees are allowed to use reasonable force to limit movements of struggling suspects. But if a weapon is brandished, associates must disengage and withdraw.

  Playing the hero role could endanger customers, but what choice did the employees have? They literally had their backs against the wall. 
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  (#9) Boss Exploits Former Employee/Wife

  Shelley Lynn worked at McDonald's, which offers minimum wages, no benefits, and weak job protection. Lynn met Keith Handley in the early 1980s when she worked the counter at a McD's in Arroyo Grande, CA. At 29, she already had three children and had been divorced three times, so she was happy to meet franchise owner Handley. He was educated and older. And he stood by the manager when he fired Lynn for not putting ice away.

  After her termination, Handley began taking Lynn and her children to McDonald's every night. A relationship developed and Handley bought a house for Lynn and children in Las Vegas. However, as bills associated with the home mounted, Handley convinced Lynn to engage in sex work as a means of supporting her family. 

  At the end of 1986, Handley took Lynn to Chicken Ranch Brothel in Pahrump, NV, where she worked for the next six years. 

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