My worst manager was the President of a local ISP. I was hired to do tech support and some light unix network stuff, until one day she read in the paper how outsourcing is the new wave.

Two weeks later, we received an email telling us we would all be "let go" the next week in favor of the outsourcing, but we had to stay the remainder of the time or else she would block our unemployment money.

Then precisely a day before the outsource, the mailserver went tits up, relegating me to reinstall most of it since she spent her IT budget on a cruise to Mexico... since, aside from being the President, she was also the accountant and payroll department.

I took that final paycheck (nearly 20 hours in overtime) and cashed it at an Amscot check-cashing place, to make sure I actually got my money.