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There's a reason they call it work, but a boss from hell can turn a crappy job into an absolute nightmare. We went to our friends asking them for some of their worst boss experiences and were shocked with what we heard. (And we've had a lot of internships.)

These are pretty bad, but do you have a boss who makes these 10 jerks sound like perfect angels? Let us know in the comments.

TMI Guy
Sometimes you wish you knew your boss a little better. Other times you wish he hadn't just laid out in minute detail the enema-vs.-no-enema-before-anal-sex debate he and his boyfriend are currently involved in ... while you're trapped in his car. That will pretty much make anyone wish they'd resigned themselves to listening to audio-books in stony silence.

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Insecure Megalomaniac
This guy walks around talking about how he's the greatest boss ever, making jokes and then telling people to laugh at them, and generally thinking his turds smell and look like roses. This is all prior to him calling you into his office where he accosts you and begs to know whether or not you like him, because he's a nice guy, right? Wrong.


Ultimate Creepster
If you're looking for a free back massage, look no further, because this guy will go to town on your delts while saying how glad he is you broke up with your boyfriend. But don't feel too comfortable, because as soon as the mailman comes he's going to ask him to give you an employee evaluation -- letting a postal carrier decide whether or not you keep your job. Power issues much?

The Time Unconscious Pushy Pants
Working on a per-diem basis can mean that when all is said and done you've barely cleared $9/hour. But Time Unconscious Pushy Pants cares not, and will call you after you've already left and ask -- since you're not in the office -- could you run that stuff by grandma's house? Also, a four-month wait for a paycheck is nothing out of the ordinary when dealing with this nightmare bosses.

Plain, Downright Mean Jerkface
Things can get a little intense in the service industry. Tempers can easily be lost on a packed Friday night, that's understandable. What's not OK? Telling your employee before the joint even opens that she would probably make better tips if she weren't so ugly. If it were Opposite Day, that might be OK to say to somebody. Maybe.


Hopeless Upseller
Yes, working in retail sucks, and sure you've got to try to upsell when feasible, but demanding that your employees try to talk every senior citizen who enters the store to buy a battery for their hearing aid into getting a cell phone is a little much. Especially when all the words from your mouth smell like stale Newports.


Big-Time Hypocrite
There can be a lot of "Do as I say, not as I do" malarkey in the workplace, but it's a little much when two marriage counselors are sleeping with each other. And they're both married to other people. It's hard to respect somebody who counsels people's marriages, then gets a bit of afternoon delight while you do the filing.


Tip Taker
Being a barista can be hard work for little money. It doesn't help when the owner comes in and swoops in on your tips. If you forget to dump the jar when she walks in, the tip-taking owner will gladly take half of what you made the six hours before she got there. And she'll gladly pay you $7.50/hour while she does it.


The Amnesiac
One friend was fired for sitting down on the job ... after being told by her boss to take a 10-minute break and have a bite to eat. Oh, the amnesiac -- in their minds they do no wrong, but that's only because they can't remember what they were just doing.



The Miranda Priestly
Did you think "The Devil Wears Prada" was fiction? No, no, friend, there are real, living people just like Meryl Streep's character in that movie. You might find yourself quite glad to have landed a position as a legal secretary, but you'll actually be spending your time draping fur coats over arms so as not to spoil brand new manicures, and parking and re-parking the boss lady's car all day so she never has to walk a block. But the fact that you spent a solid three hours looking for on-street parking downtown today is not an acceptable reason for not having that mass mailing done. At least, not to a Miranda Priestly.

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