Employee starts to hate his job because his bosses are always contacting him after hours and expect him to be available, they also skimp on bonuses and don’t treat employees right: ‘They like to portray themselves as caring employers.’ – FAIL Blog

Bad bosses and their awful habit of expecting their employees to be available 24/7.

What is the problem with these bosses who want to contact their employees ALL THE TIME? It doesn’t matter if it is 10 p.m. on a Friday, 7 a.m. on a Sunday, or even Christmas Eve. They want to control their employees all the time, no matter what their real shift is. They want their employees to be robots that don’t stop and don’t have a life to attend to, as if they were automated to only work and work all day, every day, for life. They cannot comprehend the idea of breaks, free time, or vacation time. They are so incredibly selfish that even if you take a sick day because you can’t stop throwing up, they are going to call you and ask you to send them a document, and they are going to word it as if it’s the most important thing when, actually, they could just have waited till the next day.

They always have this urgency in their voice that can be even put into emails. It makes employees feel like it’s the most serious situation even if it’s just a message saying “we need toilet paper”. What matters is not really the situation, but the fact that they need it, and your main priority is to fulfill their needs. They act as if the act of doing something that they need is not only the most important thing in the world, but also the purpose of your life. Well, it’s not.

Stories like the one in this Reddit post make me hopeless. There are millions of employees who go through this same situation. A boss who believes that has the power to contact you at any time and day, and they actually don’t. There has to be a way to put a stop to this. A revolution of some kind that may make this desperation that bosses have towards their employees doing them favors disappear once and for all.