Bad Boss Winner: Got Cancer? Tough Luck

There's no shortage of bad bosses but a worker named Pete Yonski has beat all this year with his tale of nastiness: His cold-hearted boss callously threw out the forms that Pete – a father of three suffering from a rare form of cancer – had filed for leave and disability benefits.

"My boss threw away the paperwork I sent in and then lied about ever receiving it, knowing that filing a complaint would take months if not years to resolve," Pete wrote in his entry for Working America's 2007 "My Bad Boss Contest."

Pete's story received 1,276 votes from visitors to the Bad Boss site, beating out five other semi-finalists. They included a waitress whose boss knowingly hired her stalker and a boss who thought it was more important to keep his employee at work instead of telling him that his pregnant wife had called, bleeding and needing to go to the hospital.

For his troubles, Pete wins a week long trip to any of 500 locations plus $1,000 toward airfare. Runners-up will receive the famed "Bad Boss Survival Kit," complete with earplugs to tune out the yelling and a rear-view mirror—the perfect cubicle companion so you can always see the boss coming.

Read all entries at www.workingamerica.org/badboss.