People Describe The Worst Person They Have Ever Known

You think you know a person until they show their true colors.

Unfortunately, we don't always have the option to control who becomes a part of our lives, because if we did, we'd surround ourselves with loving people.

But even those "loving people" can only be showing us a side of them they don't want us to see.

For every Jekyll we know, there's always a Hyde, ourselves included.

Curious to hear the most extreme examples of unlikable people we know of, Redditor cp3t_n3m0 asked:

"Who is the worst person you have ever known, and why?"

How badly do you need the job if you work for mean bosses? Redditors share their experiences.

Rude Manager

"New Supermarket manager."

"She comes in wearing her home clothes, we have no clue who she is and she just walks over and yells at my 2 apprentices. I tell her to stop being rude, she says she's the new manager. I said it's still no way to treat staff.(I get written up for it on her first day)"

"She forced a worker to change shifts because they needed him to work on Mondays and it's his problem that he chose to have kids."

"She had a poster on her door saying 'not my monkey, not my circus.'"

"She had the second in charge sign off on a heap of dodgy things and then left her high and dry. (she was asked to quit and did)"

"6 staff quit because of her during her 5 months there and another 16 transferred to nearby stores."

"She used the staff leaving as 'getting rid of dead weight' in her resume and got the job as area manager."

"Worst human I've met and usually I can find the good in people."

– Altruistic_Candle254

Unwarranted Penalty

"Aw that reminds me of the new manager at a supermarket I worked at in high school and college. I was the most tenured bagger, always showed up early, worked hard, and never called in sick. I also did checking (even though no one trained me, and ran the customer service booth)."

"I was out getting carts and saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years so I stopped and talked to him for about two mins. As I come in the manager comes up to me and says 'I clocked you out for your break since you were out there talking.'"

"Within the first month of him being there something like 30 people quit. I can’t say it was all bad, I did get a raise…. of $.05 per hour. Anyway, the manager was fired within 3 months. F'k you Larry!"

Bullish Leader

"Reminds me of a manager i had during my brief stint at Target!"

"She wasn’t even my direct manager, but she gave every direction with the most condescending voice possible and, in my view, bullied a couple of guys with neurodevelopmental conditions that put them under the protection of the ADA."

"I start talking to these guys about their protections if they go to HR and disclose. I get sick with COVID, and they’re both fired by the time I’m back."

"I wanted to ream her on the walkies when I walked out, but I settled for waiting until she asked me to do something, saying yes, and then going to say goodbye to the coworkers I liked before telling HR exactly why I was walking out the week before Black Friday and 2 days after another coworker had his last day."

Unlikeable New Owner

"What’s the deal with grocery stores? Me and another guy were stocking new items as we usually did on Wednesday’s. This particular shift was absolute chaos as people from all over town were preparing for an oncoming blizzard. This hindered our pace in unloading our pallet."

"The new owner gets pissed and starts berating us in front of at least 10 people about how slow we are and how he as a 50 year old man would have no trouble doing it faster. His solution? Split the two of us up, leaving me by myself to unload this pallet."

"New guy immediately makes it so we aren’t allowed to touch the music and work with other people. Deli got one person, cashiers got one person, and us carryouts/stockers got one person."

"When we got new deliveries we’d usually let the driver in through the back garage door as it was easier for everyone. New guy decides to put a lock over the garage door that already had a lock and places the key in the front of the store."

"I would have to speed walk to the front and back to let the drivers in or, take it before he came in and play dumb. He once told me to make the drivers walk around the building and to the front because he refused to unlock the door to which I said again, give me the key."

"He also parked like an a**hole."

"All in all the store was rebranded and downsized just a couple months ago, go figure."

– Pockets_254

Redditors share what it's like living with a nightmare.

Dad's Ex-Wife

"Let me tell you about my dad's ex wife."

"When I was in college and working for a beer distributor, my dad started dating this woman. She was actually the mom of one of my former classmates."

"She did not live with us, but she was staying at our house often. Sometimes even when my dad wasn't there, like if he was working late or out hunting or something. Now, bear in mind I was a 21-year-old man at this point. She decided that lights out in the house for everybody would be 9pm."

"There would be no overnight guests, and girls were not allowed. My dad was so whipped, he not only capitulated to these demands, he began causing a fuss with me when I did not. So I got my own apartment."

"I didn't want to upset him, so I told him the evening before I moved out that I was moving out the next day. No joke, the next morning her daughter was there with a truck full of stuff and my dad's girlfriend was rushing me out of the house so she could move her daughter into my room."

"A couple months go by and my dad decides he's going to marry this girl, so they go to the courthouse and get it done real quick."

"She's gotten worse by this point in bossing him around. My dad has to sneakily visit with me or have me and my future wife over because she's convinced that my dad will have an affair with her, so doesn't want him around her. My understanding is she also didn't want him around any of his female friends."

"They were married for about a year when they rode his motorcycle out to the biker bar they frequented, and she got so sauced he told her to get a DD or a cab to get her home because he didn't want her falling off of his bike. He rode the bike home and he was awakened by her son and a bunch of his high school buddies yanking him out of his bed and beating on him for leaving her at the bar."

"He grabbed his pistol and told them to get out, and they did, then his wife called the police. My dad was arrested for menacing with a deadly weapon and had his firearms confiscated by the police (this mess was still ongoing at the time of his death about two and a half years later; and we spent about another 6 months fighting with the police department to give his firearms back after the charges were dropped following his death)."

"My dad was talking to a lawyer about filing for a divorce on the exact day that he was served with divorce papers with a protective order and was barred from entering his own house , that was across the street from my grandpa's house. He was allowed to get clothes and stuff with a police escort."

"The police escort? Her new boyfriend, the cop that arrested my dad. My dad was able to get the protective order overturned and was able to stay at my grandpa's house for the duration of the divorce. She tried to hide assets like the big screen tv and exercise equipment and stuff by 'gifting' them to her brother."

"When it was discovered, her case was entirely f'ked. She had been trying to get everything by saying my dad was abusive (he was not). She ended up walking away from the divorce with only the car that my dad financed with her. About 6 months after that she traded it in, and my dad was stoked it was no longer part of his credit."

"My dad got the house, all of the stuff in the house, the boat, the motorcycles, his truck. Everything. My gramps and I had to go to her brother's house and pick up all of the items that she had put in his house (my dad was working and couldn't go and didn't want to start trouble anyway)."

"The story doesn't end there, though."

"A couple years after the divorce my dad died unexpectedly in a motorcycle crash. My sister and I were listed as the beneficiaries on his will and his life insurance (his ex wife was never listed in any of these documents; he let me know where they were while he was still alive because she was throwing a fit about that)."

"I was on top of everything because I needed the distraction, so I was contacting insurance and funeral parlors and all of that stuff. Turns out the funeral parlor will make the insurance claims on your behalf and then just cut you a check for the difference after the fact, so I let them handle that part."

"When it came time to true up following my dad's funeral, they asked about someone with his ex wife's name. She had apparently called the life insurance company and tried to file a claim against his life insurance, and they told them about it."

– SweetCosmicPope

Gramps Had Dark Secrets

"My grandfather went through something similar. He had been a successful salesman and was elderly and retired when his wife died. So then he took on a younger woman and her two adult daughters who hated him and drained his estate so that my mom and her sister got nothing, then divorced him."

"He went from living in retirement in a massive 3-level, swimming pool, hillside 1960's jet-set retreat of a home to being wedged in with our threadbare, hungry, month-to-month budget suburban family of six on the poor side of town, to finally dying in hospice with Parkinson's disease."

"He deserved it, honestly. He did terrible things to a few people - right up into his final years - and had some dark secrets. His first wife deserved a better husband and my mom deserved a better father."

"I don't think I've ever described the son of a b*tch that way before. I just kept it inside."

– rmzalbar

The Malevolent Sibling

"My late Father told me something shocking in the year before he passed. He had a much older brother who all of his siblings loathed, including my Dad. He was a scummy scam artist type. "

"He told me that when he was young, my Uncle showed up with a wife and she was younger and apparently a nice woman. They only met her the once and he never spoke of her again to his Mother. One day about 20 years later, a knock on the door. It’s the police."

"They question my Grandmother about her and say she disappeared the year they got married. They suspected my Uncle killed her. He died in 1999 and I guess they were never able to prove anything."

– Wackydetective

You can never be prepared for meeting a loathesome individual.

Unstable Stable Owner

"In terms of people I've actually known with terrible personalities, it would be the woman who ran the stables where my daughter used to take riding lessons."

"She would make the kids do all the chores at the stables so she wouldn't have to, eventually getting to the point of not letting them ride some days because the chores took too long. Basically, it turned into a situation where we were paying $325/month for our kid to do her chores and then ride if there was time."

"She bragged about how religious she was, and talked endlessly about the mission trips she took overseas to build churches. Not to build schools or dig wells, but crappy cinderblock churches. Because I guess they need her version of God more than decent hospitals."

"She would bully the kids at the stables, and criticize them both in front of everyone there and in the Facebook group public chat. It would get worse if she was drunk on hard seltzers by the end of the day, which was often. She would hold competitions, and the parents were supposed to chip in for the prizes, which always seemed to go to her friends."

"Finally, our daughter had enough, and we told her we wouldn't be coming back. She badmouthed her, and then told us we still had to pay her for the following month, as per the contract."

"When we told her no, and that we had never signed a current contract, she threatened to sue us and turn us in to Family Services over some made up BS she concocted. We called her bluff and we never heard from her again. Our daughter had actual nightmares about her for months. A truly horrible person."

– WoolaTheCalot

"Horse people, they’re the worst."

"I worked for a woman who had the single worst case of borderline personality disorder I’ve ever seen."

"She spent the entire year I lived and worked their trying to convince me my 6 year old horse had arthritis, that my (now wife) was a passing fling, and that she was going to be the “next big thing” in the dog and pony world."

"Towards the end of me being there I realized she wasn’t feeding the boarders’ horses (mine included) on the evenings I wasn’t working, and I noticed she had information about me I’d shared over the phone or to others while in my apartment on property."

"After I’d given my two week notice, she hung ferns in front of all the stalls, without telling me. I brought her horses in as usual (only her horses could come in, despite me and other boarders paying for a stall). They are the ferns, predictably. She accused me of trying to poison her horses."

"I eventually found the camera they had in my place, and got me and my horses the f'k out of Dodge."

– Avera_ge

The Opportunist

"I knew a guy who married a terminally ill woman for attention and sympathy, and used her death to raise money for a fraudulent charity for YEARS afterwards. He also tried to get pity sex from other women while she was still actively dying, telling them that the caretaking was sooo hard on him and sex would be a comfort."

"Before her terminal diagnosis, he was only casually dating her, along with a number of other women ('ethical' non-monogamy my a**). He proposed when she found out she was going to die and proceeded to document the whole thing on social media, asking for donations all along."

"The only upside to this horrible story is that I believe this poor woman truly believed he loved her, and it gave her some small amount of happiness before her untimely death."

– sunsetpark12345

Someone who I thought was a close friend of the family turned out to be anything but.

My mother would side this person in a local community organization and always include her on family/social outings because no one else did. Why? This person was manipulative and very self-serving for various reasons not worth getting into.

When my mother found out this individual had been speaking ill of her behind her back despite all of her efforts to make her feel like she belonged, it devastated my mom.

It's funny how, with age, you start to get a real sense of things, especially the relationships you have with people who seemed influential through a youthful and naive lens.