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Boss gives out insulting nicknames and doesn’t admit meeting participants

Here are some of the things he's done: Require all employees to show their face on video, then takes screenshots of our faces when we're making unflattering expressions, then uploads them as company-wide chat emojis and posts them in our team channel One time a teammate showed up to a meeting 5 minutes late, so now every time we have this meeting he purposely doesn't admit him into the meeting to make him anxious/flustered, and watches him posting in our team channel about not being able to get into the meeting, while laughing at him in the meeting Creates “nicknames” for employees based on mistakes they've made, and changes their chat name to reflect it. For example stuff like “Kernel Panic Kyle” or “404 Fred”. He makes a point that these nicknames last forever, and tells newbies to watch out or they'll get their own nickname soon. One time a…


Here are some of the things he's done:

  • Require all employees to show their face on video, then takes screenshots of our faces when we're making unflattering expressions, then uploads them as company-wide chat emojis and posts them in our team channel
  • One time a teammate showed up to a meeting 5 minutes late, so now every time we have this meeting he purposely doesn't admit him into the meeting to make him anxious/flustered, and watches him posting in our team channel about not being able to get into the meeting, while laughing at him in the meeting
  • Creates “nicknames” for employees based on mistakes they've made, and changes their chat name to reflect it. For example stuff like “Kernel Panic Kyle” or “404 Fred”. He makes a point that these nicknames last forever, and tells newbies to watch out or they'll get their own nickname soon.
  • One time a teammate posted a selfie in the wrong channel when he was still under the influence of surgery meds, and now he encourages people to react to messages with his post-surgery selfie anytime someone posts a message in the wrong channel

Tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this stuff is unacceptable. I don't know if other people laugh and go along with it because he's our boss, or if they genuinely think it's ok.

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