There are a lot of cliché phrases surrounding work – ‘teamwork makes the dream work’, and ‘it’s not where you work it’s who you work with’ to name a few. Whilst these are motivational phrases used to keep morale in the workplace up, there does seem to be some element of truth to them.

On-screen bosses have done horrible things, including (but not limited to) assaulting employees, making inappropriate remarks, and even drugging them. None of this would fly in the real world, but somehow these bosses completely fly under the radar!

With this in mind, Savoy Stewart – who are no strangers to workplace ethics – were interested in ascertaining which fictional TV boss would nab the title of The World’s Worst Boss – and, really, the answer is astonishing!

To crown the world’s worst boss, Savoy Stewart took 10 well known horrible bosses and assigned points to some of the worst actions that they exhibited over the first five episodes that they were featured in.

The boss with the highest points score is the worst boss!

The Results:

Fictional Boss

Total Score

Don Draper (Mad Men)

1134

Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)

974

Michael Scott (The US Office)

344

David Brent (The UK Office)

343

Douglas Reynholm (IT Crowd)

290

Wilhelmina Slater (Ugly Betty)

198

Mr Burns (The Simpsons)

136

Dr Kelso (Scrubs)

123

Mr Krabs (Spongebob)

116

Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)

104

With a whopping 1,134 points, Mad Men’s Don Draper is crowned as The World’s Worst Boss! Draper’s score is more than 10x that of the boss in last place (Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation)!

TV Exec Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock takes second place, trailing behind by only 160 points – making his score an incredible 974!

It was a close race between Office bosses Michael Scott and David Brent, with just one point separating them. Placing third and fourth, respectively, Scott scored 344 points whilst Brent was just shy of a tie with 343 points.

In fifth place is reported golden child Douglas Reynholm from The IT Crowd, with 290 points – a score due, in part, to his attempted drugging of employee Jen.

Scoring just below 200 points at 198 is Ugly Betty’s Wilhelmina Slater, making her sixth on this list.

Charles Montgomery Burns, head of Springfield’s Nuclear Power Plant in The Simpsons, came up seventh in this index with 136 points. Not too below Mr Burns is Dr Bob Kelso, Scrubs, with 123 points – making him eighth place.

By overworking his grill cook and caring more about money than popularity, Eugene H. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants is in ninth place with a score of 116.

In last place is Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation departments head Ron Swanson with just 104 points – which is a pretty a-okay score in context!