Dispatcher's Scary Ambulance Rides Wins Top 'Bad Boss' Honors

A private ambulance dispatcher has trumped hundreds of other workers with rotten bosses, describing how her company owners forced her to ride in a dilapidated ambulance with a "chemically dependent" driver at the wheel and ex-cons as medics.

The woman is the 2008 winner of Working America's third-annual "My Bad Boss Contest," as decided by visitors to the website, an AFL-CIO affiliate. The woman, who will get a week's vacation for her troubles, went to work for the company at age 20 while going to college.

You can read more about the winner and all entries at www.workingamerica.org/badboss.

"The contest is a fun way to vent but also reminds us that many employees are stuck working for bad bosses because they have few available options in today's economy," Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum said.