The phrase "abusive bosses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe supervisors or managers who mistreat their employees in a harmful or damaging way.
Example: "Many employees have reported feeling demoralized and stressed due to their experiences with abusive bosses."
Alternatives: "tyrannical supervisors" or "overbearing managers."
It is proving harder for prosecutors to win guilty verdicts in the trials of abusive bosses than many had expected.
Abusive bosses and unfair workplaces can be bad for the health of both employees and companies, two new studies suggest.
Yet workers earn as little as $37 a month, the country's minimum wage, and reports of unpaid wages and abusive bosses are common.
Disgruntled underlings serving abusive bosses are likely to be the most avid audience for "Assistance," a comedy by Leslye Headland that opened on Tuesday night at Playwrights Horizons.
Cameron has employed Lima for several years since recruiting her through Kalayaan, a charity that helps immigrants to escape abusive bosses.
(Draper also sketches a few Democrats, including the notorious Anthony Weiner, cast as an obnoxious showboat and abusive boss whose sexual humiliation is little mourned by his colleagues).
He also said that Mr. Newman was an "abusive boss" and that their relationship had deteriorated by the time he left.
And a three-star general who oversees the U.S. Missile Defense Agency was described in an inspector general report as an abrasive and verbally abusive boss.
Ms. Blunt brought both killer timing and a touching pathos to this fashion victim who leaps to gratify her abusive boss's every whim while heaping scorn on Ms. Hathaway's hapless underling.
It is a well-worn story in the industry that Rudin is one of the inspirations for the abusive boss character in George Huang's Swimming With Sharks - a tale made into a 1994 film and, more recently, a West End play.
