Gym manager expected to be permanently on call by tyrannical boss: 'My boss threatened to write me up for having DND on outside of work hours'

Time at work is for, well, work. Similarly, time you're not working is for not-work—well, mostly. Certainly most of us will occasionally check in on our work related obligations or check off some little task here or there even if it's just monitoring emails or putting a couple of late-night touches on an important project. We're probably not going to be paid for that time, but it might help us keep our jobs and that's nice too. Other obvious exceptions to this "not-working while not at work" include work-related time-wasting obligations like commuting and things like catching up on a project or grading papers 

Still, it's increasingly easy for this line to blur in the modern age where technology has made it possible for us to be contactable anywhere at any hour and where a lot of us could do our jobs from anywhere if our boss would let us. But there reaches a point where if you're expected to be contactable all the time you'd better be getting paid for it. And, while you might volunteer small amounts of time to help out with a job you like, a job where you have a tyrannical boss who effectively expects you to be on call with no added compensation is not going to be a job where you're happy to do so.

That was the topic of conversation in this online thread where this gym manager shared how they had been reprimanded by their boss for being unreachable on their day off. Frustrated, they shared their experience with this online community sparking discussion on the subject.