What do you do if your boss is a bully?

Anyone ever had an asshat boss? Not just the boss, but the owner of the company.

What would you do if they get in your face and cuss at you on a daily basis. Did you take it or give it back?

My ex-boss (company owner) was a bully. He got his jollies out of intimidating people, especially women (I'm female, BTW). You could see the gleam in his eyes whenever someone would cower from him. The more vulnerable you appeared, the more he'd bully you. I was fresh out of college. It was my first real job. He picked up on the fact that I was terrified of him, and naturally, I became his new target. It was horrible. I (stupidly) stayed at that job for 5 years, too scared to quit. (What would he do ... fire me for quitting? LOL!) More often than not, I'd drive home in tears. Rumor had it he was on drugs, but I don't know that for a fact. If he wasn't, he definitely had some kind of personality disorder. One minute, he acted like your best buddy, then suddenly (literally within seconds!) he'd be furious for no apparent reason.

In the meantime, the boss's son was sexually harassing me. I found out, after accepting the job, that he and the girl I was replacing had an affair. They fired the girl, and he only got a slap on the wrist. Apparently he thought I was his new plaything, and began hitting on me. I'd turn down his advances, and he'd get mad and set me up, making it look like I wasn't doing my work correctly, and getting me in trouble. Everybody knew what he was doing, but they looked the other way.

One day, the boss called me to his office, for yet another a$$-chewing. I don't even remember what his "reason" was. By that time, I'd become numb to it. He proceeded to chew me out, and without even knowing I was going to do it, I suddenly told him I quit. The look on his face was PRICELESS. (I think I was as shocked as he was! LOL!) He started back-pedaling and telling me what a great employee I was, trying to change my mind. Nope! I walked out of that office with my head held high. I had defeated him.

I still can't believe I put up with all that crap for 5 years, especially for $8.35 (at the most) an hour. Never again.

I went into business for myself, and never looked back.

What did he say to u?

Anyone ever had an asshat boss? Not just the boss, but the owner of the company.

What would you do if they get in your face and cuss at you on a daily basis. Did you take it or give it back?

Probably: "work"

I just show up for work. I am on strike. I am here only in body. I say nothing, I offer nothing, I have no opinion. I give them the presence of my body, but they no longer get my mind. My mind is on strike, I am in the tech field so until something changes I make no motions to improving technology and leave it status quo. My answer to everything is: I do not know.

Anyone ever had an asshat boss? Not just the boss, but the owner of the company.

What would you do if they get in your face and cuss at you on a daily basis. Did you take it or give it back?

Most companies have an employee handbook that protects against a hostile work environment.

Most companies have an employee handbook that protects against a hostile work environment.

It sucks though because I feel as if maybe I should of kept taking the bs. I did at first, but it didn't stop. I don't know how people in the corporate world do it. All I want to do is my work and be left alone. I understand you need critiquing/direction from supervisors, but not unwarranted badgering. I guess that is too much to ask.