Management by runes
I kid you not. I was the office manager for a shoe designer, and I did all the IT support, as well. It was a small office, but we had sales reps in the field. The owner at first was "eclectic," but the longer I worked there, the more I realized the man was just pure crazy.
He actually made business decisions by whatever the runes told him. If he didn't like what "they" said, he would shake them up and toss them back down; sometimes he'd throw in some quarters to get a different result, but he let those stupid rocks guide his decisions.
Not just runes, either. One time when I was interviewing people for an open office assistant job, he asked me for their birth dates so he could run their "numbers" (yes, he was into numerology, too), and would not give a 2nd interview (mine were 1st) to anyone whose first name started with an "R" because those people are all "crazy," he said.
I finally had enough and quit because his obvious dementia was bringing down his business, but it was always someone else's fault for every bad thing that happened. He "fired" his CPA (who was actually quitting because my boss owed him tons of $$$), and made us go down to the CPA's office to gather his files. As we left he told us he wasn't surprised the guy turned out to be a loser; after all, he was a "f*g" and a "Jew," too. *sigh*
I swear, I thought I heard him talking about burning down the warehouse so he could recoup his lossses with insurance money. He obviously didn't though, because last I heard the shop was still there. But most everyone else had quit as well. The hard-liners who had been with him all along were among them - especially after two of them came into the office one morning and he was sitting in his office holding a shotgun across his lap.
I think I can safely say I had the craziest boss EVER! Glad I'm gone from there.
