An Irish Twitter thread has gone viral after thousands of people told of people who they had previously worked with that were just a tad unreasonable.
Katie Harrington put the question out there on Monday evening - and has since seen it be retweeted over 8,000 times, with almost 10,000 quote tweets and a further 8,500 replies.
She got the ball rolling herself, explaining "What’s the weirdest thing you ever got in trouble at work for? I was accused of being disrespectful because the six people I CCd on an email weren’t listed in order of seniority."
And if you sift through some of the responses, there have been some truly awful managers and work colleagues for people.
"I was told off for using a word in a report that my boss didn't know ("minutiae"). I asked her to give me a list of all the words she didn't know so that it wouldn't happen again." one said.
Another struggled in retail for being too nice to the public"
He explained: "I was told I was too friendly to customers working on a till in a shopping centre."
While a third user said: "Solving a big problem at work, but I didn’t tell my boss how I came up with the solution. When he presented to his bosses, he felt embarrassed he could not answer how HE came up with the idea and HAD TO give up the credit"
Another boss from hell landed in as one ex-employee replied: "Telling a customer what time we closed at. The company owner felt this was classified information that could be used for a robbery. I wish I was making this up."
And we'll wrap up the recap with a truly typical one for those of you of a certain vintage.
"As a young postman in the 1970s I got reprimanded and sent home at 3.30 in the morning for wearing trainers. I had to change into proper boots. The supervisor who sent me home was my dad, who had taken me to work in his car. I had to walk home and back."
