‘I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door’: Night-shift worker’s day off is ruined when management sends a colleague to his door after another employee didn’t show

Workplaces have a remarkable talent for blurring the line between professional and personal life until it barely exists at all. In the modern employment circus, management's solution to every problem is to treat employees' time, privacy, and sleep schedules as communal property, ripe for the taking whenever a scheduling crisis hits. The idea of a day off becomes a quaint relic, and the expectation that workers should be reachable at all hours is baked into the culture, as if everyone secretly lives in the break room and dreams in company slogans.

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    "I immediately told him that showing up at my house is NOT okay"
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  • In the age of the boundary-free job, missed calls are interpreted as a personal challenge, and unreturned texts are grounds for escalation. The concept of rest is treated as an obstacle to be overcome, not a basic human need. Managers, emboldened by a shortage of staff and an excess of entitlement, see no issue in dispatching coworkers on door-to-door missions, turning the neighborhood into an extension of the workplace. The message is clear: living nearby is not a convenience for you, but a golden ticket for them to interrupt your sleep, your downtime, or whatever shred of personal life you have left. The only thing more persistent than workplace emergencies is the belief that every employee should be on standby, ready to spring into action at the faintest whiff of a scheduling hiccup.

  • For context, I work overnights, so I sleep during the day.
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  • I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door asking if I'd be willing to come in to work today because a different coworker didn't show.
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  • I immediately told him that showing up at my house is NOT okay and to never do it again. "I will
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  • discuss working extra hours with them tomorrow, but tonight is my night off. I'm not
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  • coming in." He told me that it was my manager and assistant manager that insisted he show up
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  • at my house to ask me in person since I wasn't responding to texts or calls. (I was, surprise
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  • surprise, sleeping!) Eight phone calls, two voicemails, and four texts.
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  • My coworkers know where I live because I'm a two-minute drive down the road and they have
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  • been kind enough to drop me off after a shift due to my car breaking
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  • down(blown head gasket, it's a lost cause). So, thankfully they didn't
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  • search up my address in the database and give it out, but still. Highly inappropriate.
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  • I gotta wonder, is it even legal for coworkers/employers to do that?
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  • Either way, it's back to sleep for me. (Sure would be funny if either of my two coworkers that I
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  • know use Reddit saw this. One of which is the assistant that sent my coworker to my house.)
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  • CoderJoe1 It's not illegal as far as I know, but they've certainly shown you how little they respect you. I'd make up reasons to call them in the middle of the night a few times to repay them.
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  • MNConcerto I worked nights, getting woken up by inconsiderate asshats was my biggest peeve.
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