Boss Calls Employee 'Privileged' and 'Lazy' for 'Only' Working 60 Hours Per Week

Why is it so hard for some bosses to treat their employees like human beings? There are about 112 waking hours in a week (assuming the average adult gets 8 hours of sleep per night). That means, if you work a full time job, you only have 72 precious hours of free time. If you work 60 hours a week? Make that 52 hours of free time. One redditor on r/antiwork said that their boss expects them to work over 60 hours per week doing hard labor under the hot sun. At a job like that, is there even time left over to live your life?

Posted by Mel Dawn

“My boss wants to fire me because I only work 60 hours. I’m supposed to work the weekend too.” Posted by u/promotionsguyforreal

The comment section

Redditors showed their support and indignation in the comments.

“Shit like this is insane and needs to stop.” said u/TnMountainElf. “When I was a couple of years into a PhD program, after going for months with 4 hours sleep in order to keep up with workload, I complained to supervisor. Was told that if I wanted a career in this area of academia I needed to be prepared to put in 80+ hour weeks for the next decade just to be mediocre. Because that's what everyone else did. Good to know. Left and never looked back 'cause ef that bullshit.”

“I am only a department chair and not a real boss, but I always remind my department not to work on the weekend. The weekend is for family, and lesson plan during planning blocks. Accept imperfection and just build for the future” said u/Payed_Looser.

“That's also the logic of every retail and service job out there.” said u/Blidesdale.

"You'd better work hard, because if not we can easily find someone to replace you. But also, please don't leave because we're very short staffed because nobody wants to work." said u/ChefKraken.

“My dad’s company pulled that shit. Dad being dad he sucked it up and did what he was told. Ended up so broken physically he barely made it to early retirement age. Ended up spending his last couple of years in a wheelchair.” said u/50_and_stuck.

“I see this a lot in manual labor jobs, I know a lot of people are pushing for trades (its a good option over college) but it can be hell on your body.” said u/NotUrMomsBanana.

“There usually is overtime, but it's not worth it. Most garbage labor jobs give you a low hourly rate so they can lower costs on giving out mandatory overtime. The workers just end up overworked and still poor.” said u/Blidesdale.