No, your boss isn’t always right. But you probably knew that already! According to the Peter Principle, employees tend to get promoted until they reach a point where they are incompetent. And some folks simply aren’t cut out to manage other people. It’s natural to feel frustrated by some of their awful decisions and toxic behavior. Sometimes, those feelings begin to boil over.
Today, we’re featuring some of the most interesting subordinate-superior conflicts from all over the internet that might make you feel cathartic about your own job or studies. These folks opened up about how they finally snapped and called out their bosses or other authority figures. Keep scrolling to find out what happened and what the fallout was like.
#1
I have this teacher who hates me, I don’t really know why. Anyway, a few weeks ago we had to present a subject in front of the class. Each group was made of 3-4 students(ours had 3). My group had worked fairly hard for weeks and our presentation was going very well. Anyway, after 5 minute of starting the teacher started explaining things before we even had the time. I politely told her we were getting to that part. Then she suddenly started shouting at me about not having any respect and not being raised well. The whole class was quiet while she was just there shouting me.
After at least 3 minutes of standing there listening to her shout I told her to stop humiliating herself and left.
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#2
Yes. I worked for a middle eastern bank back in NYC and during my first week one of the VP’s in IT appeared at my desk and started yelling at me for no apparent reason. I’ve been there literally 2 days. So me being a NYer started yelling back. Just defending myself really. He called me into his office later on and apologized and said I better get used to the yelling it’s just how they talk. I said I’m Italian it’s how we talk too shake? He never yelled at me after that.
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#3
My Senior Manager wanted me to do the reviews of my co-workers (his job) I said I didn’t feel comfortable reviewing my equals. He said something to the effect of “You don’t do anything all day, you have plenty of time.” I snapped back, “What do YOU do all day?!”.
Nothing happened, he backed down and said I don’t have to do the reviews. We had a 2 minute discussion with his equal about respect and I still got a promotion 2 months later.
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#4
Had a new Director once who was very hands-on with her new role. She got a bit too involved with my usual vendor processes, to the point where she was unintentionally gumming up the works. I asked her to back off, politely, and she did. We had a good rapport after that and she no longer interfered.
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#5
Yes mostly because he snapped at me. I had a boss that was notorious for trying to intimidate employees by yelling at them in front of the entire office. But one thing I do not tolerate from anyone is disrespect. I don’t care who you are I will not accept disrespect. So he came out of his office while I was talking to other staff members and started yelling at me. I turned around and yelled back at him and told him don’t ever come out of his office talking to me like that again. I reminded him that I have parents and they don’t even disrespect me like that. He quickly calmed down and then said “ok, ok let’s not get upset” and I said then don’t speak to me that way ever again. He stopped doing it to me but he would still do it to others that didn’t speak up for themselves.
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#6
I once talked back to my dad, which was a shocker since we don’t really talk and we’re not that close and also he scared me a bit. Biggest adrenaline rush I’ve ever had probably.
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#7
Not sure about a better relationship as not much changed in the relationship. Once was the boss gathering the team to say they were implementing on-call with no compensation. I immediately came back with saying ‘you implement that, and any reasonable person is going to work just hard enough not to get fired while they look for a new job’. They did come back with a compensation term though, however I did coincidentally not get a COL raise that year.
Another time I had a boss who constantly would talk over me, even if I was mid sentence. Could be team meetings, one on one, didn’t matter. One day when he did it during a Dept meeting, I told him “Mrboss, I don’t interrupt you when you’re talking, do me the courtesy of doing the same” and kept talking on my point. Not sure if the director talked to him, but he didn’t do it again. At least to me.
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#8
Hehe. Yeah more than once. My favorite line was: “ I DON’T THINK I’LL BE LETTING YOU FIRE ME TODAY.” One boss had gotten too close to my face yelling and screaming spraying spit. I told him: “You need to back off before you get seriously hurt.” He backed off and I went back to work. About 30 min later I was called back to the office. I was thinking okay here goes, he’s had time to think about it and I’m history. He apologized for his behavior and asked me if we were good. I grinned and said: “Yeah, we’re good.”
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#9
Yes. My old manager used to bully me, shout, humiliate me, he creeped me out. I can only take so much grief then I have to have my say. I just shouted at him ‘STOP BULLYING ME!!’ lol, he replied angrily ‘Come to my office, NOW!!’ I followed him, still angry, went to his office, he was like a lamb to the slaughter, asked me what my problem was, told him he picked on me etc etc, anyway, came to a resolution, walked quietly back to my work. At lunchtime everyone wanted to know what happened in the office.
He still bullied me, but indirectly, his reputation spread, tons of people resigned, we had to cover the resigned employees work as well as our own, for no extra pay, I dug my heels in, I wanted him out. Told Head Office everything..he ended up resigning himself (I feel he had no choice).
Unfortunately, our current boss used to work with our old boss at another company….
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#10
>Have you guys ever talked back to your boss which made you have better work relationship with them?
He’d respect us less if we *didn’t* talk back to him. We’re expected to shoot down bad ideas – and help rebuild them as a workable solution.
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#11
I was working in another country as a SCUBA instructor. At the time I was the most experienced diver so I pretty much worked every day. One afternoon the boss told me I could have the next morning off. That night I went out and and really cut loose and had a bit of a drinking binge. That night a storm rolled in and the net morning I got a frantic call from a coworker telling me I was needed at work. I was super hung over so it took me about 30 minutes to get down to the dock. Our dive shop had a rather large Y shaped dock. The top planks of the dock were 2×6 that were put together in three board sections. These sections were just placed on the dock frame (so they could easily be removed if a storm came.) The large waves from the storm were rolling in and knocking these boards off into the ocean. Only one of the other instructors had bothered to come into work, so when i arrived my boss was VIVID. He saw me walking in and immediately started to yell at me, calling me lazy and basically any other thing he could think of. Being that I was really hung over and not even supposed to be in at work i just told him to Shut up. He kept yelling at me and I kept telling him to shut up. After my third time of telling him to shut up he screamed and then grabbed my neck and tried to strangle me. I also then began to try to strangle him and we both got tripped up and fell down. We were not willing to throw punches at each other so we just proceeded to roll around on the dock with waves crashing all around while banging each others heads on the dock. After a couple of minutes my boss gave up and stood up and said “I am sorry I just need help to get these planks out of the water and save the rest of the dock.” I got up and said “No problem I will get in the water and try to save what is left.” We saved the dock and my boss did apologize later in the day. In the end my buddy the only other instructor there said it was the funniest thing to see us wrestling with the dock crumbling around us.
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#12
Yes. Company brought me in because they thought their outside IT was doing a poor job. I was told to improve things.
About 6 months in I had implemented AD so we could move on some priorities. My boss at the time is yelling and screaming because I don’t know someone’s password. I let him yell for about two minutes staying calm then I’m your boss you do what I say!
I say:
Bill I don’t need to know their password because I can change it whenever I want, I can give you access to their files, I can lock them out. You’re screaming at me because you want to do something wrong, but you brought me in because you trusted me to do it right. So either you trust me and this never happens again or you can fire me right now and I’ll have a nice stack of the same kind of people toy had before on your desk by the end of the day. Which one?
I worked there another two and a half years. Bill ended up loving AD and had shortcuts to all his favorite shared folders on his desktop.
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