I'm Starting To Believe Employees Should Be Able To Fire Their Bosses After These 22 People Shared Their Worst Experiences With Management

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community to share the most ridiculous requests they've ever gotten from a boss, and y'all did NOT HOLD BACK. So, I'm back to share even more stories that made my jaw go slack.

Here are 22 shocking responses:

1. "While I was working as a prep cook, the owner asked me to continue production on mac 'n cheese that had metal shavings in it."

"The machine used to shred the cheese was in disrepair, with metal parts rubbing against each other — resulting in the production of metal shavings. Said shavings were dropping directly into the cheddar cheese. I could not believe my ears when my boss told me to keep going and mix the cheese with the other ingredients to complete the recipe! The whole time this was going on I couldn’t stop thinking about how I was going to resign."

—Anonymous

2. "I was in the first trimester of my pregnancy, and I kept having to get up from my desk to go throw up. My boss called me in and said I was getting up too much. I needed to stay at my desk."

"I informed her that I was pregnant and having a lot of morning sickness throughout the day. I asked if any of my work was late (there were lots of fast deadlines). She let me know I wasn’t late and she didn’t care if I was pregnant. I needed to stay at my desk. So, I asked her where was I suppose to throw up. She replied, 'In a waste basket at your desk.' So I returned to my desk, informed the other five people that shared the office with that I would be throwing up in the room, per the boss's order, and that I was sorry. I left the job as soon as the project was completed. Funny thing was, the boss called me about three months later, asking if I was interested in coming back to work on a new project. I laughed and said I’d never work for her again."

—Anonymous

3. "I had an awful boss at a frozen yogurt place. An accident with a sauce pump caused me to lose the eyesight in my right eye, shattered my eyebrow bone, and there was blood pouring from my face."

"The boss told me I needed to wipe the blood off and finish my shift. I walked out and got airlifted three hours away. A bone from my eyebrow severed my optic nerve. I sent the labor board and workers comp after them. The business owner went bankrupt."

— Flamingosforlife

4. "My boss had given everyone the day off to celebrate the successful launch of a product. I went in because I had some paperwork I wanted to finish and use the company gym."

"When he saw I was in, he told me the day was for everyone BUT ME as he needed me to deliver the gun he had shipped to the office to his house."

–Anonymous

5. "When I was a customer service manager, one of my employees was caught watching porn at the desk. Thankfully another employee caught him and not a customer. Anyway, for proof, I remoted into the computer, and sure enough, porn popped up on my screen."

"I reported it to the general manager, who said he needed to see it before we could do anything. He walked me to my office, told me to sit in my chair, and hit play, and stood behind me and watched the whole video. I was 27; he was in his 60s."

— smg00014

6. "This was a number of years and jobs ago, but the company CEO lived in England most of the time but came into our office once or twice a year (in Canada). He usually came for a couple weeks, so a residential suite was rented for him. It had everything he needed there, including a kitchen and in suite laundry. He actually asked me to go over to the suite and do his laundry for him."

"I wasn’t even his assistant but the assistant of the managing partner. Needless to say, I refused and found a dry cleaning company that would pick up and deliver his cleaning. I left shortly thereafter."

—Anonymous

7. "I worked for a small property management company about 10 years ago. While I was microwaving my lunch, my employer stormed into the kitchen and yelled at me, asking why I wasn’t washing dirty dishes in the sink while waiting."

"I had no clue why I had to. I was the only other female Asian employee there."

— crispyfish88

8. "My husband's boss once told all of his department employees to go to court with him and give a good character witness testimony in his upcoming divorce."

"My husband refused as he knew the guy was a cretin and deserved all he got in the bad divorce."

—Anonymous

9. "I prematurely went very gray in my 20s. I was working as an executive assistant that also manned the reception desk at the time. My female boss told me that the higher bosses had agreed that I needed to color my roots more frequently, as I was the first face people saw in the office, and was representative of them."

"I was shocked she could actually say that out loud. I always dressed professionally, but it was so expensive to color my hair literally every six weeks, and they certainly wouldn't be paying my salon bills. I left later that year, thank God."

—Anonymous

10. "I had an office/clerk job right out of school. My boss was taking a night class, and he had me do his homework."

"He also had me fill out his son's college applications, including writing the essays. I put up with it because we had an office kitten and I was attached to that little ball of fluff. Even though I didn't quit, I was there when the state shut the business down for lack of paying taxes. I kept the cat."

— c49a679543

11. "Worked at a satellite office for a small company and had to go to the HQ for training my first week. When I went to the break room to get some coffee, one of the plant workers came in and said that I should leave some money next to the coffee pot. Thought he was joking, but no, he said they deducted coffee money from everyone’s paycheck there."

"When I asked my boss a few minutes later, he confirmed it and said I should consider myself very lucky because they didn’t have that policy at the satellite office where I would be working since it was only four people there. Should have run for the hills right then and there but ended up working for that horrible man and company for almost three years of hell."

—Anonymous

12. "I was hired as a trainee at a donut kiosk in a mall. My first day, the owner, who had just been fired from a corporate job, had me, a 16-year-old, rearrange his stockroom by myself, then told me what a bad job I did of it. He never trained me to do anything and put me down when I didn't know how to do the things he was being paid by the government to train me for."

"The worst thing was that I never had a lunch break, and worked beyond my paid hours every shift. When I finally left, he fudged my timesheet to make it look like I had breaks every day and did no overtime, so I reported him to the traineeship department."

— ricmauger

13. "My boss had me pay for her car payment with my own money because there wasn’t enough in accounts receivable."

"Then when we got paid by advertisers, I would reimburse myself."

—Anonymous

14. "My boss called me into his office to ask me to go get something he left in his car. I pointed out that it was crazy storming outside and pouring rain in sheets."

"He reached behind his desk and grabbed something; it was an umbrella. He couldn’t understand why I had an issue with this request when he was so nicely providing me with an umbrella."

—Anonymous

15. "My husband was in the ICU, having nearly died from a very aggressive bout of pneumonia, when his boss called him and told him he had to be at work the next day because he had just used up all his sick days."

"Needless to say, he was unable to leave the ICU hospital bed and show up at work the following day, just because he had used up his three sick days for the year!"

—Anonymous

16. "I had a boss who wanted to know where I was 24/7 'just in case I need you' and would get very upset when I refused."

"The business wasn't open 24/7, and didn't work on deadlines. She also tried to get another manager fired for having an after-hours side gig that didn't interfere with his employment at our company. And breaks for employees were 'a waste of time,' although she took smoke breaks every half-hour or so.

She wanted to be driven to and from work daily, a total of 17 miles out of my way, with no compensation for time or mileage. Her employees were expected to work without pay on whatever was her current home improvement project."

—Anonymous

17. "My boss and I were both pregnant at the same time with her two months ahead of me. She overheard a conversation I was having with a coworker where I divulged our baby's name. Lo and behold, it was the same one my boss had chosen, too."

"She didn't speak to me for three days until I was finally called into her office, and the berating commenced. I was floored at the things she was saying to me, and at the tail end of her yelling, my boss ultimately asked me to change our son's name. I respectfully declined."

—Anonymous

18. "Had a boss tell me that I shouldn’t date my then-girlfriend because it was long distance and it would affect my sales numbers."

"He asked me to end the relationship. I got a new job, married the girl, and have two amazing kids."

—Anonymous

19. "My boss wanted me to cancel my prepaid non-refundable trip to Italy because we got a big job in that was time sensitive."

"I told him fine, but he would have to reimburse me and my wife for the trip. He didn't think that was his responsibility and that I needed to put the company first since, without the company, I couldn't go on the trip in the first place. I went to Italy. They didn't get the job, anyway."

—Anonymous

20. "A coworker was sick and had to go the hospital. It was determined she would have to go back to her home country to be cared for by her family."

"However, she did not have money for the ticket there, so our boss asked us all to pitch in and help pay for it for her. He makes 6X what any of the rest of us make. He could have just paid himself."

—Anonymous

21. "My boss called me in his office and said I owed him since he had gotten me an increase in pay to be his secretary. He wanted to take me out to 'dinner.' I was young and very naive."

"I said, 'I am looking forward to meeting your wife.' I guess I was understanding at that point. He said his wife was not coming. I was quite disgusted with him by then, but I had NO intention of doing what he had in mind. A short time later, he was transferred to another branch. I never heard from him again. I did hear that Internal Affairs was investigating him, though. What a creep!"

—Anonymous

22. And finally...

"My boss asked me to do the online defensive driving course FOR HIM!!! He's a real piece of work!"

—Anonymous

YIKES. Now I'm curious if you've experienced anything similar.

Tell us the most unfair request you've received or the most ridiculous thing your boss has ever asked you to do at work in the comments below. Or, if you'd like to remain anonymous, feel free to share via this Google form . Your answer may appear in an upcoming post.