Employee Refuses Boss' Demands to Work on Holidays and Weekends, Coworkers and Employer Turn Against Him

There are working hours, and there are non-working hours. This work-life balance is key to maintaining a healthy life, but plenty of employers don't have much respect for it and insist on trying to get their employees to work as much as possible — even after promising that wouldn't be the case. That is exactly what happened to Redditor u/freeefinally, who posted to the popular Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole when they started to receive some serious hot water from peers and management alike at their job for purposefully being unavailable at night and on the weekends.

The original poster said this company bragged about their "reasonable" work-life balance and hours for employees, making this manager's insistence that OP be available to answer the phone basically at any hour of any day completely unreasonable. What's even sadder is that OP's peers seem to have turned against them for standing their ground and not saying yes to whatever the boss wants.

This is an unimaginably hard position to be in with your employer, especially when your coworkers start to turn against you too. It can feel extremely isolating and you start to wonder if maybe you are the one in the wrong. The gaslighting can be real.

Really, all you can do in these situations is quit.

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