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Ive been pretty lucky and never had that bad of a job. I think the worst was just one where I had a boss who would not relate any issues to them above him but would pass on directives from above and just blow off our situation. So we would be told to do stuff we simply could not do. We were working on prototype hardware and he was so passive I would say at meetings we need to do some off shifts or something as we did not have even hardware for testing and he would just blow it off again. Eventually I just stated at a meeting that starting the next week I would be coming in at noon and working till 8:30 approx. He never authorized or even acknowledged it but I started working the sorta spit shift and my checks kept on coming so it worked out.