America’s Worst Bosses

The eBossWatch panel of workplace experts has selected and ranked the fourth annual list of America’s Worst Bosses.

The 2012 America’s Worst Bosses include a college dean, four restaurant owners, a fire department chief, five doctors, a judge, three county prosecuting attorneys, and a state attorney general.

To date, the 2012 America’s Worst Bosses have cost their employers over $41 million in monetary damages and lawsuit settlement payments. Of this amount, the 2012 worst bosses in the public sector have cost their respective taxpayers over $21 million.

The managers who made this year’s list of America’s Worst Bosses were named in workplace lawsuits filed by their employees and were accused of workplace harassment and/or sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and/or creating a hostile work environment.

The eBossWatch panel of workplace experts who selected and ranked the worst bosses from across the country includes includes:

Linnda Durre, Ph.D., psychotherapist, business consultant, corporate trainer, national speaker, columnist, and author of Surviving the Toxic Workplace
Kevin Kennemer, MA, SPHR, founder of The People Group, writer of The Chief People Officer blog, great workplace consultant and speaker. Serves as president for the Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium’s Tulsa Chapter
Catherine Mattice, MA, workplace bullying subject matter expert; founder of Civility Partners, a training and consulting firm focused on building positive workplaces; international speaker; author of BACK OFF! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work
Erica Pinsky, Respectful Workplace Solutions Expert and author of Road to Respect: Path to Profit
Marilyn Veincentotzs, organizational consultant, speaker, advocate, and author of How Organizations Empower Bully Bosses

America’s Worst Bosses 2012

	Name	Organization	Location
1	Timothy Young	Fairfax County Fire Department	Fairfax, VA
2	Edward Globakar	Mary Ann’s Mexican Restaurant	New York, NY
3	Trent Bertrand	Philips Entertainment Lighting	Louisville, KY
4	Fred Beans and Elizabeth Beans Gilbert	Fred Beans Hyundai	Doylestown, PA
5	Richard Moore	Aaron’s	St. Louis, MO
6	Susan Piel	Denton County District Attorney’s Office	Denton, TX
7	James Schwartz	El Camino College	Torrance, CA
8	Michael Martelli	Federal Fruit and Produce	Denver, CO
9	Dr. Russell Tomar	Cook County	Chicago, IL
10	Edward Howze and James Gilbert	CSX Transportation	Fayetteville, NC
11	Lee Broadnax	IHOP	Bernalillo, NM
12	Rick Fuentes	New Jersey State Police	West Trenton, NJ
13	Juan Flores and Gregorio Rodriguez	Si Casa Flores	Medford, OR
14	Tom Dinnauer	Andrews International	San Francisco, CA
15	Gary Greenberg	Birken Manufacturing Company	Bloomfield, CT
16	Maurice LaRiviere	City of Methuen	Methuen, MA
17	Dr. Bryan C. Donohue, Dr. Sanjaya Saheta, Dr. Christopher Allen	Donohue Cardiology Associates	Washington, PA
18	Dr. Mark Noar and Martin Virga	Endoscopic Microsurgery Associates	Baltimore, MD
19	Bobby Ferguson	Ferguson Enterprises	Detroit, MI
20	Brian Pat Reed	Merchant Management Systems Inc	Askland, KY
21	Joseph Strub	Primebank	Sioux City, IA
22	Ronald Weaver	Takoma Aquatic Center	Washington, DC
23	Cleve Bryant	University of Texas	Austin, TX
24	Brian Jones	Villa Galleria	St. Louis, MO
25	Tom Scudero	Millennium Broadway Hotel	New York, NY
26	Jeanne M. Campbell	Campbell-Crane	Washington, DC
27	Kim Staley	Moss Point School District	Moss Point, MS
28	Sam Covelli	Panera Bread	Pittsburgh, PA
29	Leesther Brown	Peekskill Housing Authority	Peekskill, NY
30	Dennis Sherwood	Qwest	San Francisco, CA
31	Russell French and Jonathan Carter	Kittery Police Department	Kittery, ME
32	Robin Heinemann	Concord Police Department	Concord, CA
33	Ricardo Campbell and Richard Lee Campbell	DiMare Ruskin	Immokalee, FL
34	Phill Kline	State of Kansas	Topeka, KS
35	Larry Dominick	Town of Cicero	Cicero, IL
36	Kenneth Black	Department of Veterans Affairs	Union Grove, WI
37	Michael Austin	Findlay Honda	Las Vegas, NV
38	Carolyn Frutoz-De Harne	Hawaii Professional HomeCare Services	Honolulu, HI
39	Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho	County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney	Lihue, HI
40	Michael Korb	Fayette County Detention Center	Lexington, KY
41	Frank Mora	Oasis One Dry Cleaners	McAllen, TX
42	Robert Soboleski and Donald Kakas	New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection	Pennsville Township, NJ
43	Robert Doar	New York Human Resources Administration	New York, NY
44	Deb Kelly and Mark Nichols	Clallam County Prosecutor’s Office	Port Angeles, WA
45	Donald Michael Galbraith	Hurricane Grill and Wings	Royal Palm Beach, FL
46	Thomas W. Manning	Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles	Chicopee, MA
47	Ron Hittle	Stockton Fire Department	Stockton, CA
48	Al Bell	Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court	Greensburg, PA
49	Glenn Aronow	New York State Senate	Buffalo, NY
50	Thomas Andrews	Fulton County	Atlanta, GA