The Fictional Bosses You'd Least Like to Work For

Voting Rules
Horrible bosses from fiction only. Vote up the worst bosses on the list.

List of the fictional bosses you’d least like to work for. Think your boss is bad? Your boss may not even compare to some of the horrible fictional bosses throughout time. Browse through this list of the fictional bosses you’d least like to work for to gain some new perspective on your own employment situation. Ranked by the community in order from the absolute worst to just kind of annoying, you are sure to find a boss worse than yours on the list.

Vote for the fictional boss you think is the absolute worst. Or, if you don’t see a particularly horrible fictional boss on the list, and him or her below so that others can vote as well.

Although some may think the boss they have is the worst, there are some fictional bosses that have even been known to stalk or kill their employees. After seeing a few of these fictional bosses that you’d least like to work for, you may start to appreciate your own boss a little more!
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Ranked by
  • Mr. Burns
    1
    291 votes
    The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons
  • Bill Lumbergh
    2
    267 votes
    Office Space
  • Palpatine
    3
    117 votes
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Star Wars
  • Cruella de Vil
    4
    222 votes
    Disney's House of Mouse, 102 Dalmatians, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
    101 Dalmations
  • Ebenezer Scrooge
    5
    234 votes
    A Christmas Carol
  • Darth Vader
    6
    98 votes
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
    Star Wars