Having written about the Bad Boss who told his producer to "Stop bringing me ideas!" I have been passed a number of other such tales.
Such as:
The Radio station boss who told one of his presenters that time checks were more important than anything else he did...
...the TV producer who told a director lighting was the least important thing to worry about...
...the manager so up his boss's ass that when said boss told him budgets had to be cut and he needed to lose staff he kept his tame monkeys and fired the writer and director - and had no show...
And this little beauty, which concerns an experienced producer of a radio phone in show:
Having spent years putting together sparkling radio shows a new boss arrived. The producer was no longer left to their own devices, each day the topic had to be checked with the boss-man to make sure the subject was to his liking.
Each day the producer would come up with good lively suggestion only to have those topics squashed and replaced by something more aligned to the day's news - but so stale that few listeners were prompted to phone in. After weeks of this the phone-in had all but dried up. The producer complained, only to be told that if they did it the producers way they'd have too many calls.
Any more bad boss stories gratefully received.
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