You think YOU’VE got a bad boss? Well, think again when you read some of these workplace horrors:
Two workers who exceeded the official limit of two moans per employee at one unnamed German firm were fired this year. Several colleagues quit before their moans could be counted.
That doesn’t just happen in Germany. Our sources tell us a brothel in Nevada won’t hire any young women who are 18 or 19 years old. Too many complaints about raging hormones. MORE:
Their employer’s strict policy tops a list compiled by Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The Chicago-based outplacement firm gave nine notable examples from hundreds of cases.
Most involve petty rules.
Workers at a DaimlerChrysler plant in Kokomo, Indiana, should drive a Chrysler model or they may find their car in Indianapolis, 50 miles away. That’s because a rule limits parking space for non-Chrysler cars. Violators will be towed.
“These are things that make you go hmmm,” Challenger spokesman James Pedderson said.
Such stories pour in throughout the year and Challenger plans to make the list an annual tradition, he said. The point is to encourage managers and their staff to communicate better.
Some of the worst stories involve discrimination against a worker’s religion, ethnicity, or, less seriously, squirrels. A librarian lost her job for devoting too much time to saving a squirrel stuck in a ceiling.
It sounds like the squirrel was there because the library’s management was nuts.