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Gawker’s Evil Boss Competition

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Gawker, which
focuses on gossip about life in Manhattan, is running an evil boss competition. This
is how they describe it:

With your help, we’ve ID’d 14 of
the potentially worst bosses in  New York. We’ll be parading them in front of you daily,
and when we’re done, we’ll all decide together who’s the worst. Feel free to shout out
your suggestions if any of these tales joggles a traumatized (or happy) memory!

Yesterday, they talked about (allegedly) evil
boss Scott Rudin, the film producer.  I write about him in The
No Asshole Rule, as he is infamous for having burned through 109 assistants
(his estimate, the Wall Street Journal estimated 250) in 5 years, and
apparently, for firing an assistant for brining him the wrong breakfast muffin.
Check out the comments and stories about him; scary The other noiminees thus
far are Faith
Popcorn, the renowned markter who published the best-seller The Popcorn Report; Mireille
Guiliano, the author of French Women Don’t Get Fat; Conde Nast executive
Richard Beckman; and publicist
Claudine Gumbel.

So, get your votes in, add your comments, and read the stories and comments — those about Rudin were especially scary — if they are true because, after all, this is a gossip blog.

These bosses do sound like jerks, if the
reports about them are true. At the same time, compared to some of the asshole
bosses that people write me about, they seem pretty tame (except perhaps for
Rudin).  Consider the guy who was bullied
by a boss when he had Leukemia. Also,
in terms of public figures, I suspect book publisher Judith Regan doesn’t
qualify for the contest because she was fired recently (and I believe lives in the Los Angles
area), but she makes most of these other allegedly evil bosses look tame, at
least if the Vanity
Fair story is accurate.

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One response to “Gawker’s Evil Boss Competition”

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    fired teacher

    Aloha
    I have been teaching at an all Hawaiian school (I’m not) for the last 5 years, during which time I have been treated unfairly, harassed, discriminated against, intimidated and threatened, along with working in a hostile work environment.
    I have filed multiple complaints and several grievances against my supervisor, all of which the school found to be unsubstantiated. I filed claims with every outside organization I could find, to no avail.
    I filed another grievance, and to my dismay, was terminated. I feel it is retaliation, however when I went to the next level, I was told they would not speak to me; the open door policy does not stand if terminated.
    The problem lies in that this school’s arms are very long-reaching; is very powerful; will bury you in legal paperwork until you either give up or can no longer afford to continue; and everyone is afraid of going up against them due to all this plus much more.
    Basically, they can treat the employees any way they like and if you speak up for your rights, they fire you and there is nothing you can do, no recourse, nothing.
    I’m looking for an organization would willing to step in and fight for the employees’ right to fair treatment and fair labor practices.

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