"Horrible Bosses" Director Shares His Own Bad Boss Story

Friday, July 8, 2011

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

“There’s definitely a trend of movies about the workplace,” director Seth Gordon told Union City in a recent interview. Gordon directed the new black comedy Horrible Bosses which opens tonight. The film stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as “average suburban working Joes,” said Gordon, “trapped and victimized by the people they work for in ways that are truly heinous and profound until they just can’t take it any more.” Although Gordon denies there’s any social message in the film, saying “It’s just a fun, rude, escapist comedy about three guys who decide to kill their bosses and are out of their depth as soon as they start,” he cheerfully admitted to Union City that “I’ve had issues with authority and my share of run-ins with bosses.” Coincidentally, Working America is now holding its My Bad Boss Contest in which workers share hair-raising stories about their nightmare bosses, with a grand prize of a 7-night vacation plus expenses, and Gordon was happy to contribute his own “Bad Boss” story. “My first real job at 15 was as a dishwasher at a retirement home,” Gordon told Union City. “My boss there was a real terror: everything I did was wrong, every dish had to be re-done, nothing was ever right. Some people get a little bit of power and they just go crazy.” Horrible Bosses also stars Jennifer Anniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx. Click here to enter or vote in Working America’s My Bad Boss Contest.  

 

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