Toxic leaders and bad bosses plague many professionals throughout their careers, significantly impacting workplace health and productivity. What’s most harmful about these kinds of leaders is the damage they inflict on their employees' well-being and mental health.

According to Forbes, 87% of Americans admit they’ve had or currently have a bad boss. And when it comes to “bad bosses,” there’s no one-size-fits-all description. Lackluster leadership can stem from several toxic traits that make the workplace unbearable.

Maybe you’ve had a boss who micromanages you, constantly checking in. Or perhaps you’ve had one who’s completely absent in communication, leaving you without clear direction or feedback. These traits are not mutually exclusive; some of the worst leaders manage to combine both—providing little information but an overabundance of feedback. This combo allows them to blame-shift, be inflexible, and generally make life hellish.

You might have even had the misfortune of working under a leader who displayed emotional instability and unethical behavior. Like, say, asking you to book travel and accommodations for several sex workers for one of their infamous “Freak Offs.”

These “Freak Offs” are unethical events that make you responsible for everything: setting up, recording, and cleaning up after a multi-day, non-consensual sex party, where your boss drugs their partner and films them performing sexual acts with male prostitutes.

Your job wouldn’t just stop at travel arrangements and procuring illegal substances; no, you'd also need to ensure the sound and video quality of these atrocities is top-notch. And after the mess is over? You’d be scrambling to find a cleaning service to sanitize and restore the scene of debauchery.

These events would happen frequently enough that you'd find yourself becoming a decent travel agent for sex workers, a proficient purveyor of prostitutes, and a capable camera person for the non-consensual. But cleaning companies? They would always be one-and-done, despite whatever insane payout you were able to offer.

If this sounds familiar, you probably worked for Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was indicted on federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering this Tuesday. The unsealed indictment provides disturbing details about these notorious “Freak Offs,” shedding light on what a world-class piece of trash Combs is—not just as a person, but as a partner and a boss.