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   Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:04:35 JST Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

   What's the worst thing that your boss has ever done? Mines would probably be the time I worked for a law firm and the owner wanted us to clear out the upstairs of a dusty ass building that he owned to look scrounge for office supplies (literally not in my job description at all) and as we're clearing things out he tells us that they're going to come back and clean up the asbestos in a few days.

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     birdpoof (birdpoof@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 06:04:34 JST birdpoof

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     @BlackAzizAnansi

     An ex-boss would make one team member cry every other day and was buddies with two other toxic teammates who also bullied him and previous teammates (who quit before I was hired--I didn't know any of this history). There was screaming and shouting (like "holy shit should we call security?" kind of fighting) and ex-boss would just close her door instead of doing something about it. She tried to frame the one Black team member for something and he eventually quit.

     I took copious notes and kept every chat and email containing or reporting inappropriate behavior and reported her ass and other toxic teammates to HR. I even surreptitiously recorded conversations (state law allows this). Because of the field I was in at the time, HR and legal had to get involved. Four people were fired, so at least something good came out of that stupid experience.

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     Cat C-B (megmuttonhead@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 22:24:14 JST Cat C-B

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     @BlackAzizAnansi As a public school teacher, the day they got a bomb threat, once they’d evacuated all the students, they expected all the classroom teachers to go back into their classrooms to search for a bomb.

     Seriously. I am not making that shit up.