I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would bitch people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.
Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn’t want to go through the “shame of divorce”(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).
I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.
Or they dislike someone else in the home. I definitely had people who loved their spouse, but hated actually having to take care of their kids, so they took tons of OT in order to minimize interacting with them at all.
I’m unemployed and my wife works from home 3 days a week. Seems like most weeks she makes an excuse to her boss to work at home the remaining days. I need my alone time, and I made that clear very early in our courtship. Just got in a blowout fight last week over it. My fault as I held my resentment in and blew, but I can’t broach the issue without her feeling rejected. I know because I’ve tried in the past.
I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn’t have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like “We don’t have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here”. Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn’t work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.
I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would bitch people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.
Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn’t want to go through the “shame of divorce”(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).
Hope that dude stubs his toes every morning.
I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.
Or they dislike someone else in the home. I definitely had people who loved their spouse, but hated actually having to take care of their kids, so they took tons of OT in order to minimize interacting with them at all.
This is so sad.
I’m unemployed and my wife works from home 3 days a week. Seems like most weeks she makes an excuse to her boss to work at home the remaining days. I need my alone time, and I made that clear very early in our courtship. Just got in a blowout fight last week over it. My fault as I held my resentment in and blew, but I can’t broach the issue without her feeling rejected. I know because I’ve tried in the past.
I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn’t have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like “We don’t have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here”. Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn’t work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.
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