KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Think your boss displays some bad workplace habits?

• A new supervisor turns a smooth-running staff into a dysfunctional group through threats, pitting co-workers against one another, and making barking sounds when angry.

• Another manager tells an insurance staffer to deny a psychiatric stay for a troubled war veteran who later kills himself. The manager’s reaction: “People commit suicide every day.”

• A part-time employee who uses her days off to visit and care for a dying mother is threatened by a supervisor with a workload and schedule change that would significantly reduce time spent with the mother in her final days.

All of the above were finalists in Working America’s “My Bad Boss Contest,” which was conducted on the AFL-CIO affiliate’s Web site over the past six weeks.

The winning entry, however, was submitted by someone using the computer-moniker “Cat Scratch,” who told the story of a dentist who tried to shortchange employees for extra work, submitted fraudulent claims and prescribed painkillers to addicted patients in exchange for unnecessary but expensive dental procedures covered by insurance.

But that wasn’t all. On Sept. 11, 2001, after all his patients canceled their appointments in the wake of the nation’s tragedy, “Dr. X” took $100 out of each employee’s paycheck.

According to “Cat Scratch,” this was a millionaire dentist living comfortably who docked the wages of employees making $13 an hour.

“Cat Scratch,” who eventually moved to another job, wrote: “In the wake of a travesty that should bring out the best in people, he had the audacity to steal money from his own employees.”

But working for this dentist did earn the writer a one-week vacation and $1,000 in airfare from Working America.