Many American workers think they have labored for the world's worst boss but have you ever been forced to stay at your desk while the office burned?
Well, that's the workplace tale of woe a help-desk employee submitted to the second annual AFL-CIO "My Bad Boss" contest. It was good enough to win "Steaming Mad" the "Most Outrageous Story" grand prize Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
But even that would have to take second place to a worker -- pseudonym Pete Yonski -- who said he has cancer yet his heartless boss threw away his disability benefits paperwork.
Salving those jaw-dropping job wounds a bit were the prizes they won: a week-long condo vacation and $1,000 toward airfare for the cancer patient and a week at the Royal Hotel Vegas and $500 in airfare for the guy who worked in the hot seat.
Six runners-up get "Bad Boss Survival Kits" -- earplugs to tune out yelling bosses and "The Very Best of Aretha Franklin" CD featuring her hit song "Respect."
"While this contest is partly a fun way to vent, it also shines a not-very-flattering light on the American workplace," said Karen Nussbaum, executive director of the union's Working America lobbying arm.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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