Oh lord, I worked in a large import/export co. for 3 years once with a psycho chinese boss.
This woman was truly a nut. Very savvy biz. woman but a personal nightmare to work for.
Her classic mind fuck games would be giving me projects, collection accounts, ( I handled the accounts receivable, net 30 accts. and all the international customer service for the company) telling me what she wanted done, and then, often, within the same hour she would come by my desk and ask me what I was doing and then proceed to say ” No, no, no, you should be doing this!” WTF!
It was like she had no recollection of what she had JUST put me on task for!!!
The final straw was when she brought her son into the company and they fought like cats and dogs, I literally had to RUN and HIDE from their outbursts when I was on the phone with a customer!
I don’t know HOW I stuck it out for 3 years, I really, genuinely LOVED my customers, and they me, infact, at one point she brought in a new customer service rep and lot of our clients refused to deal with her and wanted me.
When I told many of our clients I would be leaving, many said they would not be buying from the company any more, they loved our products but could not stand dealing with the owner. I’m sure she lost a goodly amount of biz. when I threw in the towel.