Oh yeah. Not only was he a complete asshole, but he was disgusting in every way. -He was racist.
-He was sexist.
-He talked about his former sex life with his ex.
-He bragged about violently shaking his girlfriend’s autistic son to get through to him.
-He lied. He lied to cover lies, hurting me and my career.
-He scrubbed his teeth and braces with a dry toothbrush all day long and kept the toothbrush laying around random places in his office. You had to watch where you put your things.
-His office smelled like sausage and cologne.
-When I told him I would be taking maternity leave, he said I would not have a job with him if I tried to come back.
-He told me that my upcoming maternity leave was making him physically ill.
-He couldn’t so much as figure out how to work his email account.
-He referred to himself as the “King of Baltimore” and said when he worked in Vegas that he was the “King of Vegas.”
-He mentioned multiple times that he didn’t think my husband and I could afford our baby. The hilarious thing is that he didn’t make much more than my husband at the time.
There were many things that lead up to me leaving. The day I quit, I had just had enough. He accused me of doing something that I didn’t do. There was a misunderstanding between me and the girl who held my position before me. It was harmless. Nobody was harmed or even inconvenienced, yet this ex-boss of mine raged for hours about it. He blew through my office, dumping papers on the floor, looking through the files on my computer; he just couldn’t believe that it was a simple misunderstanding.
Finally, after ranting for about 3 hours over something that did not matter, he went to his boss’s office and shut the door and began yelling some more. I called my husband and asked if he thought it was ok that I quit that day, instead of two weeks from then, when I was supposed to be on leave. He said “yes” so I went to my office and collected my things and left.
When I got home, there was a message on my phone begging me to come back. I didn’t. I felt awesome. I’m not usually one to leave someone hanging, even if I don’t like the job or something, but this bastard fully deserved it.