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Win Passes To See HORRIBLE BOSSES
What can you do when your boss is a psycho, a man-eater or a total tool? Quitting is not an option. These monsters must be stopped. In Warner Bros. Pictures’ HORRIBLE BOSSES, even the best-laid plans are only as good as the brains behind them.
Enter WAMG’s HORRIBLE BOSSES contest for win a chance to see the movie before it comes out. The screening will be on TUESDAY, 7/5 at RONNIE’S 20 CINE, 7pm.
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3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: Tell us your best story about a horrible boss?
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It is rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug material.
Synopsis:
In the comedy “Horrible Bosses,” Jason Bateman (“Couples Retreat”), Charlie Day (“Going the Distance”) and Jason Sudeikis (“Hall Pass”) star as three hapless workers who realize that the only way to make their daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and the dubious advice of a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. But, even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them, Jennifer Aniston (“He’s Just Not That Into You”), Colin Farrell (“Crazy Heart”) and two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey (“American Beauty,” “The Usual Suspects”) star as the unbearable bosses and Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx (“Ray”) stars as the plotters’ unlikely mentor. The main cast also includes veteran actor Donald Sutherland and Julie Bowen (TV’s “Modern Family”).
“Horrible Bosses” is directed by Seth Gordon (“Four Christmases,” “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”) and produced by Brett Ratner and Jay Stern. The screenplay is by Michael Markowitz and John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, story by Markowitz. Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Michael Disco, Samuel J. Brown and Diana Pokorny serve as executive producers, with John Rickard and John Cheng as co-producers. The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography David Hennings; production designer Shepherd Frankel; editor Peter Teschner; costume designer Carol Ramsey; and composer Christopher Lennertz. Dana Sano is the music supervisor.
A New Line Cinema presentation of a Rat Entertainment Production, “Horrible Bosses” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company
“Horrible Bosses” opens nationwide on Friday, July 8, 2011.
www.horriblebossesmovie.com
I had a boss that scheduled me 3 hours a week for two months and then told me after I put in my notice that they were just about to up my hours again. Yeah, right! They also stood by while another manager called me a slacker to my face even though I worked my butt off!
my boss almost ran my fingers over while working on a line with boxes and said to me that i didn’t need them anyway.
I had a boss once who would give every female employees whatever she wanted.
I HAD A BOSS THAT WAS HORRIBLE AND EVERYONE ENDED UP QUITING. LATER HE WAS CAUGHT CHANGING THE BOOKS TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD AND WAS FIRED.
Many years ago, I had just started working for a boss who brought me his old, beat-up suitcase that looked as though it undergone 20 years of wear and tear. He insisted I take the suitcase to the local office of the airline he had just flown and demand reimbursement for the damage that the airline’s baggage handlers had allegedly inflicted. There was no way his suitcase could have sustained that amount of damage during one flight unless it dropped out of the cargo area 1000 feet above ground. I put off doing anything about this “assignment” and finally relieved my stress by quitting after three miserable days on the job.
I had a boss that would fall asleep during staff meeting and pass gas loudly.
I had a boss many years ago that would be charged with sexual harrassment today. I reported the incident to Human Resources and was transferred to another department.
I once had a boss who asked if I wanted a kiss. When she saw my look of confusion, she lifted a box of Hershey’s kisses above the desk that was obscuring my view. Awkward silence. So…not horrible. But it could have been.
My most horrible boss blew smoke in my face all the time and smoked 2 packs a day – at work!
I had a boss that wouold spend most of the day in the office- while everyone else did all the work. This boss had a crush on another employee, so they both would spend their work time in the office together doing no work. You know this employee just so happened to be scheduled every shift with this boss.
I once had a manager that was an elderly man. he gavce me a copy of the book the joy of sex. i was totally freaked out and he would tell me about his sex life with his wife. very disturbing.
At one time I had a manager who was also a drug dealer and at least on one occasion kept his product in the company safe while he was working.
My boss changes the policies at her convinience. During the bad weather last winter she decided to call me off but since I was on call she put me on 24 hour instead of 16 and I got called in. She decided to pay me just regular time instead of the callback rate which is overtime Had to go to so many higher ups to finally get compensated. Her daily word of wisdom YOU DO THIS OR ELSE……
I had a boss who gave my glowing reviews and said I was one of the best workers she’d had. I went away to college but was promised a job the next summer. When the next summer rolled around, she acted like she didn’t even know who I was. I ended up working elsewhere that summer.
I had a boss who borrowed my brand new car to pick up lunch for the staff……..ended up taking a sharp turn and spilling a quart of
chili all over the back seat……wouldn’t give me a dime to help
pay for the clean-up. I got a chance to return the favor….borrowed
his vintage Pontiac LeMans convertible……left the top down…oops
we had a St. Louis summertime gully-washer…..it was worth losing my job.
bipolar boss with schizophrenia …..
Pre-computer, I was working in inventory control for an electric parts company. My boss changed my work rules and it required me to do so much more work that I was working early, late, lunch hour and still not keeping up. I decided to take a vacation to get some relief from the stress and there was no one who would or could do my job while I was out. Boss had to do it and when I returned he was so frazzled that he changed everything back the way it was.
Had a boss that was great with me till she found out my age. Then I was treated like well we won’t go there … Only job I ever walked out on.
I had a boss who wouldn’t do anything to bad employees. It got so bad that a rumor went around that he was sleeping with said-employee because she was able to do anything and everything that she wanted without any consequences.
had a boss that would take all the credit for himself for the work I did, right in front of me in meetings
had a lady boss that would sexually harass me
My friends boss (it doesn’t have to be my boss, right) steals her hours and calls her inferior to their supervisor. One time, my friend set up an food arangement (they take calls at a catering company) to send to a funeral. My friend was crying because it was a sad death story. Her boss got the HR rep to fire her for drug use, the evidence being her puffy eyes and planted basil in a baggy. She was later re-hired when her boss was prooved of lying, but the boss kept her job.
I had a boss come all the way down from his office to tell me that I did something wrong. I ended up showing him what I did and why…which was the correct way and he just walked away with no apologies or good job. Nothing!
I had a boss who showed up late and left early EVERY day, would never look me in the eyes when I spoke to her, and yelled at me for being too respectful when I spoke to her……
I had a boss who loudly criticized employees in front of their co-workers and in front of customers. Most of the criticisms were not even true.
I had a boss who was a thief and always tried to blame the other employees.
I had a boss who promised to give me a paycheck and said it was in the mail. Never got it. Pulled my car behind his after he worked and made him give me a check or he could not get his car out.
always yelling at everybody
took a lot of 2-3 hr lunches and gave us a hard time if we went over our 1 hr lunch
My old boss (by old I mean 90 or so) made our meetings together last around 7 hours long just because he didn’t like me and my supervisor.
I’ve never had a problem with any of my bosses, therefore I need to see Horrible Bosses to see what a horrible boss is like.
When I worked in fast food, I had a boss that would sit on the counter, eat a bowl of Chili and pass out. He was worthless.
I had a boss that would routinely verbal abuse her employee’s, calling one “as dumb as a box of rocks”
A person younger than me that I trained, later became my boss.
A year later they told another person that they had asked Me to do something (that they really didn’t).
Since that person thought I knew and was simply ignoring my instruction… I was confronted, embarrased and then fired.
My boss is crook and steals from the government
i was working for a company that I helped start from NOTHING, the owner/boss brought in his daughter and wanted me to train her, which of course I did, she stabed me in the back and I got FIRED
I once had a boss who fell asleep during meetings!
I had a boss once tell me that I cannot be attracted to any other employes because he was once and he paid for it dearly. This was after I announced my engagement who happened to be with my coworker…
Had a boss that tried to write me up for being late. Fortunately I was aware of what she was doing and wrote down what time I came in and who was there when I got there. Checked everyday she said I was late and found that some of the dates she listed were on weekends, we didn’t work weekends. She sucked so bad.
Boss at a major retail chain – once my co worker fell down & got injured badly due to slippery floor. Refused to call for medical treatment and warned me not to be a witness saying it is my word vs. her
I once had a boss at Burger Chef who snapped a co-worker’s bra. He was fired for his actions, and on his way out, he took a box of bacon out of the walk-in cooler. Ahh…the memories of fast food employment….
I once had a boss that would eat all of the food in the office. Even other people’s lunches.
I was working at a company and I had a cup I bought and kept at my desk for drinking water and stuff. One day after lunch I was looking for my cup that sits on my desk and I couldn’t find it. Turns out my boss took the cup off my desk and had it in the bathroom and the toilet wasn’t working right so he was draining the toilet water into my cup with a hose!
I had a boss who fired a coworker while she was out on her honeymoon. Her reason? She’d just married a guy with lots of money and “she didn’t need this job anymore”.
I had a boss that made my first day on the busiest day of the year and made me dig through the garbage looking for a coupon I “threw away” and then when I was done he revealed that he had the coupon the whole time..he was “teaching me a lesson” supposedly.
I worked in the IT department of a company and the boss of IT was an older man that didn’t know anything about IT but somehow shoehorned his way into the job after working at the company so long. All he did all day was talk to his buddies on the phone and yell at everybody to smile. Oh, he also fired half the department while accepting double the workload which didn’t make the remaining employees very happy.
I worked at Smoothie King for a small period of time & was the first of a chain of many to be fired for absolutley no reason. It is ironic that I was fired only slightly after claiming a workman’s comp case, as was the next person to be fired. She was a nazi about every little thing & just an all around not nice person. Getting fired was the best thing that could have happened to me!
I used to work for Dave & Buster’s and the General manager would always come in coked out of his mind with two girls screaming for Bloody Marys at 9am,
My BEST story . . . I’m kind of leagaly not allowed to tell you. Really it was that bad.
We had a CFO who was a real perv. One week a dozen of the gal accountants resigned, turned out they got paid off to keep quiet about this guy. Of course he stayed around for a year since the company didn’t have the balls to do what is right.