Entitled Boss Loses It When Vacationing Employee Is Unreachable
Vacation time is precious. Every day that most of us salaried workers toil equals a percentage of a day of freedom. That freedom can be enjoyed in many different ways: a little staycation with your partner, ordering fancy takeout and sleeping in. Or perhaps a beach getaway, sleeping and drinking on the sand, letting the salt water rejuvenate ones body. Whatever the flavor of vacation, there is one important and universal truth for that time: You do not have to work. Most of the time we are actively escaping it.
Dictionary.com defines vacation as follows: "a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday." So why is it that employers have started expecting us to be logged on while trying to take a restorative break from responsibility? Technology has become a bit of a trap. Yesterday, redditor u/confusedwmployee took to the r/AmItheAsshole subreddit with a tale of this type of entitled employer. It's a story that reveals everything that's wrong with the increasing expectations of this increasingly exhausting era.
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Get ready for a long and disappointing story.
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OP explains that they recently got a promotion at the company they've worked with for the last two and a half years. Before their promotion, they had requested a week to visit their sister and freshly born niece. Their new supervisor was not happy about this important family trip.
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After sharing the harrowing account of their boss' douchey behavior, OP asks the forum for advice, admitting they were scared to be fired and concerned they really had been at fault.
They added another edit after their spelling apology (it's totally understandable to lose spelling abilities when emotional): "OH WOW! Hi everyone didn't expect get so many comments but thank so much, and thank advice keeping my phone off tomorrow so can spend my last day with my family without being too anxious but will read through all these comments am travelling home and promise update on Tuesday or Wednesday!"
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The subreddit was more than happy to provide some wisdom.
u/BabY_pot4to said it best: "Jesus, NTA." For people who don't frequent the forum, that means "Not the asshole."
They also suggested OP keep records of the messages and take them to the Human Resources department.
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Many responses emphasize the importance of getting all related exchanges in writing, and to forward the text messages to the personal phone and email in case things escalate.
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The situation stunned so many people that it made its way to Twitter.
While this bootlicker was Team Workplace, most of the sentiments from Twitter users were equally appalled at the supervisor's behavior.
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