#1 Steve Ballmer

Company: Microsoft (2000 - Present)

Ape-poch Moment: Snatching an employee’s iPhone, pretend to stomp it, and making several unflattering remarks about the person during a private company meeting.

“iPod is an island and that’s what plays into one of the strengths of our Zune; Google is just a search engine and YouTube is actually something that people copied up from TV and is a copyright law problem waiting to happen; IBM has worked hard to get the government to be its ally on the regulatory front and that’s why it doesn’t draw flak from regulators.” That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (on India’s visit without any specific agenda, but only for a reason that India is important to Microsoft), showing off his verbal expertise, hitting back because the going is getting tougher for Microsoft with other companies making big and shadowing  his company.

If one thinks that Ballmer is good at verbal antics, take a look at it, he’s a terminator on loose, blasting employees for owning Apple products, and trampling the devices if he catches hold of them. 

This year's approval rating surveys from Glassdoor (29 percent) and GeekWire (40 percent) showed that employees voted him the worst tech CEO. And since taking over for Bill Gates at the turn of the century, the polarizing Ballmer has earned a rep amongst workers and investors as the arrogant egomaniac responsible for massive layoffs and losing billions. The KIN failure speaks for itself. When you take into consideration his long list of insane public outbursts, poor vision, and lack of leadership, it's no wonder Microsoft continues to struggle.