Office Employees Share Their Bosses' Best Michael Scott-esque Moments

The Lack of attention to details

I handed him an aerial image I had printed. He told me I needed to reprint it and rotate it 180. I walked to my cubicle, waited a minute, handed it back to him right side up. His reply, "Perfect."

FridaysOnTheFly

The hysteria

We had mice. Boss man was terrified of mice and a total skinflint who didn't want to pay for an exterminator. His big idea (I shit you not!) was to give me cotton to put in my ears and a blow horn. He then opened the back door, closed all other doors in the little shop, and I had to attempt to herd mice out of the store with a f****** air horn, with cotton balls sticking out of my ears. I tried to explain why it wouldn't work, but he essentially told me not to worry my pretty little head over it, and that was my entire afternoon. Most ridiculous s*** I've ever done at a job ever before, and ever since

taoshka

The lack of sensitivity

It was this guy's last day with the company, and the managers brought in a cake for everyone to share. A very nice farewell gesture.

Except he wasn't moving to a new city or leaving the company for a new job. He had gotten fired. The managers literally fired this guy, then called everyone into the kitchen and said "Okay, today is Steve's last day with the company, let's have some cake!" Most oblivious, socially awkward, tone deaf moment imaginable.

bird-ghost

The power struggle

My boss makes me walk 2 meters behind him because I'm tall and he's short.

holybull

Bad time to bounce

After a successful project, owner of the company invited everyone out to lunch (about 12 employees) at a nearby restaurant by the office. Little did she know, the place was very expensive, so she bounces early before the check comes, stating that she had a client call. She gives us money to pay for her meal and takes off, leaving the rest of us to figure out the check. It also turns out she didn't give us enough money to pay for her potion of the check so someone had to throw in a few extra bucks to cover that.

Ricetaco

The extensive team power emphasis

Mandatory Staff Appreciation Day.

It fell on my day off, and I had to come in, to participate in the team-building activities that were scheduled. It went from 7am to 7pm, which was longer than a normal shift. That was my only day off that week.

1YearWonder

Paying no mind

A few coworkers and I competed in a local Office-themed trivia contest. We came in second place, and one of the prizes was a "World's Best Boss" mug. We brought it into work and displayed it proudly like a trophy in one of our offices. My boss--who was not involved in the contest, has never seen The Office, is not friends with or well-liked by any of us, and is a huge idiot--saw the mug in someone else's office and just took it. None of us could figure out where it had gone until we saw her drinking out of it.

MyHandsAlwaysHurt

A skewed understanding of things

My boss put candles in his dishwasher to clean them and they ended up melting and distributing a thin layer of wax over everything

frangoon1984

When you live an episode

We legitimately had to lay off 4 people last year, and management decided to wait until the day before the Halloween office party to do it. No joke. It was like the Halloween episode in real life.

Amedais

The cockiness

I had a boss who got a promotion to senior manager. The very next day he pulled into the parking lot with a BMW 1-Series. No one on my team even knew they made a 1 series (cheapest possible BMW/badge car). He gets out wearing a BMW polo and a white BMW hat. He offered to take me to lunch in it. He jumps on the highway, adjusts his BMW hat and says to me, "I don't exactly do 60 in this thing!" does a little triumphant laughter and starts going 80. There was a cop on the bridge above us. We were immediately pulled over. I will never forget the look of defeat on his face.

BasicAlgebrah

The inappropriate comments

One of my co-workers is black and loves chocolate. He was talking to the boss one day and mentioned something along the lines of wishing he had some chocolate right now. Boss: "who needs that when we got some milk chocolate right here?" referring to my co-worker

fabrar

When he was pushy

It was like my first or second week, he asked me to come see his band (three middle aged white guys playing covers of blues rock bands) play at a sports bar. I told him I had to pick up my parents from the airport on the night in question. He told me they should get a cab.

IAmAnnoyed_

Behind the back comments

One morning I was in his office when one of the employees (5 employees total) got to the office late, maybe 9:45 or something. As she walked in he asked her why she was late and she replied with some excuse and walked away. He turned to me and said: Did you see that? She thinks that she is smarter than me. Someone needs to tell her that if she was smarter than me SHE would be running this company not me.

dashrezak

An unusual meeting

CEO of our company Skyped into a meeting, but accidentally hit his laptop screen and aimed the camera down revealing he was Skyping in with the classic 'no pants' style. It was like a real life sitcom moment

Jorgwalther

When he is just looking out for himself

Got the go ahead from corporate to buy a new coffee machine for the office. Bought a new Keurig, took it home and brought in his own old coffee machine for the staff to use. Terrible person, you know who you are!

NotPoliticallyCorect

Very team oriented

instead of saying "that's what she said" he said "that's what WE said, because we're a team, aren't we?". I bursted out laughing

GnarlyJr