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Folks, we're putting out the call for your very worst stories of working in retail, customer service and just dealing with bosses in general.

Send your stories to mailbag@boontavista.com or leave us a message with your tale.

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flashman

My old boss gave me two double passes to the movies because I did a good job on a tough project. The next day he asked for one back, because he'd only meant to give me two single passes! I gave one back, but what would you have done in that situation?

Ashelia

I had to give a client the price of a transfer between Shanghai Airport and the hotel they'd independently booked. I told them the price and they said it was too much. The next week they asked for a new quote, it had gone up because the exchange rate changed. I recommended they not use the service if it wasn't in their price range, the agent agreed. Three weeks later, a day before the trip, the agent emailed me asking me why I hadn't booked the transfer.

CDK

Could you please write my resignation notice for me?

Robert De Lisle

At a crappy retail job, my boss got angry that employees had left empty takeaway food containers in the bin behind the counter, so the next day they banned eating during shifts, as well as toilet breaks for some reason

Fartmaster

Which one of the hosts is the most "hot couch guy"

Conor Stokes

I had a pair of bosses (a father and a son) and one day they took me aside at lunch and revealed they didn't believe in democracy, and in fact preferred a benign dictator. They just wished that fellow Tony Abbott could enact his policies without being tied down. Oh and wasn't the medicare co-payment just dandy? It would just mean one less hamburger to the poor, improving their health! The same bosses got a new office built that used polished concrete and insisted male employees pee sitting down because urine could stain the precious concrete. I did not once sit down to piss and considered standing up to shit.

potionsys

I had a game I'd play where I'd measure how far into his shift my boss would get before saying a slur. the lowest amount was 11 seconds oh yeah my boss was my dad

Blakey

One of my first bosses held a staff meeting where she glared daggers at me while talking about how someone had been stealing phone cards, near as I could tell her evidence was "you are the only young dude on staff". I was later set up to fail then sacked.

Murray Figg

I worked for a bit in Paris had to do some in store in store training at a retail bakery at Gare de Nord station. As I found the back door I noticed a huge pile of human shit. I hoped over it and continued on my way did what I needed to. A few hours later i walked back out to the bakery floor that had a retail counter if the front. I noticed a huge trail of human shit everywhere. I looked up to see on the staff scraping human shit off her shoe with a baguette and flick the shit towards the bin. It kinda splattered on the wall be she just carried on serving and everyone kept walking in the shit. It was still there the next day. I didn’t stay.