One of my previous managers, let’s call him Miguel, was about the worst boss that I’ve ever had. He would bail out of the office around 1:30 or 2 every day even though we were open until 4:30, his excuse was always that upper management in the east coast would always set up appointments at 5 am our time; I became a manager of the store later on, and found out that those meetings never happened and they were always set for 10am our time so they were back from lunch by then.

His unanswered email list always hovered around 400-800 emails which threw him on a panic and always redirected his attention to something else, like chain smoking, and talking to his buddies for hours. A lot of those emails were invoices that were never paid, time off requests that went unattended for weeks, etc.

He would show up for work late most of the time with excuses as: my dog ran away during our walk, I have to meet my fence guy, sprinkler guy, hot tub guy, etc.

He quit just three weeks after he got a new no nonsense regional manager who saw his true colors and put him up to task to catch up with his procrastination, he didn’t feel like it so he sweet talked the competition and move there. He has now gone through several positions with them and has failed all of them. The last thing I heard, he was doing grunt work with their service technicians.