Nothing shows your boss how essential you are to the business like taking a vacation. If your boss or team can't handle a week without things going off the rails, then that's saying a lot. The thing is, the types of bosses who insist on being able to contact you during your "vacation" are the same bosses who try to tell you how expendable you and your role are, negging and gaslighting you to keep you in your place. It's all probably them projecting their insecurities because, deep down, they know they'd be stranded without you.
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This worker went out of the country in order to visit her family for the holidays, leaving her mother's phone number with her boss in case of an "extreme" emergency. Sure enough, this made her boss feel that she was entitled to contact the worker whenever she felt like it. This, after trying to prevent the worker from leaving on holiday in the first place, cruelly joking about how the worker “might” be able to leave before midnight on the day before they were set to leave.
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