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Manager FAIL | Boss speaks to me like 'gum on the bottom of his shoe'

Boss speaks to me like 'gum on the bottom of his shoe'

A worker has taken to Mumsnet claiming that her boss speaks to her and colleagues “like a piece of chewing gum found on the bottom of his shoe”.

Taking to Mumsnet, user/backtoworknightmare wrote: “I work in hospitality and my boss is a nightmare, basically. It isn’t an environment that values icy professionalism, it’s more off hand, fast paced and people can be snappy, but he is insufferable.

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