Blue collar worker volunteers some time to help figure out scheduling for his team, entitled colleague now demands his time on all of his days off: ‘My dude... It's my day off!’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Dec 28, 2025 6:00 PM EST

It doesn't always feel like it, but there are people out there who are working for the employees in the workplace. This man was volunteering his time to help the higher ups with managing the scheduling. Currently, everyone was basically working 24/7 and it was getting out of hand. So, there were meetings after meetings for months about this. The man volunteering his time was making sure that the regular employees were being heard so that the scheduling will help them out as best as it can. It isn't all about the management teams and CEOs. In fact, any company would fall to pieces if it weren't for their everyday employees. 

So, he was coming in, for free, volunteering some of his time to make sure that the teams he works with get appropriately scheduled. He didn't have to to this, but he cared about his fellow blue collar workers, so he made sure to be there as often as he can. Unfortunately, this gave one entitled middle management employee the audacity to reach out to him with demands. On his day off… Through Facebook! The absurdity just keeps growing. 

This man had no right to even reach out to this employee. He was not on the clock and he was not in the meeting volunteering his time that day. But also, he didn't even work directly with him, so like… Why are you even talking to him? Let alone, going on Facebook, a completely unprofessional site, to find him and talk shop. Actually, you weren't even talking, you were shouting demands at him via a way-too-long Facebook messenger app… What in tarnation?

Of course, the volunteer employee ignored this entitled colleague, but the damage was done.

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  • Did this entitled guy get his insane demands? We don't know. We hope not, but, alas, the story does not say. It says that the day did respond to the Facebook message in a professional manner. We say that colleague did not even deserve an ounce of professionalism, but we're just a random people behind a screen reading a story online, so what do we know?… We do read a lot of stories online, specifically workplace stories. And as experts in that sense, we recommend shutting down this kind of behavior immediately. One thing he could have done was simply ignore the message. Why? Because it was via Facebook messenger and that is NOT a professional platform in the slightest. 

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  • TLDR: my husband volunteered for a work committee to provide input on new schedules. Entitled coworker Facebook cold-messages him at the end of the process on his day off to make demands instead of following the process because of his ego.
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  • "You volunteered for this, so all your time belongs to us."

    Long version: My husband works in a union environment with 24/7 shiftwork schedules. The employer wants to change up the schedule.
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  • There's management, union reps, and some trusted volunteers to give input from the regular folks on a committee to discuss the changes.
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  • It's a long process and has been ongoing for months. My husband has come in on his days off to attend these committee meetings.
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  • He's also written workplace-wide emails \\from his work email\\ to keep everyone informed (and less panicked), as well as openly gathering information to bring back to the meetings.
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  • He's put up with a lot of drama and BS from people, but this guy Bill takes the cake.
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  • The guy is part of "Team C", who usually work together in one area and provide information to the other teams.
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  • They are \not\ more specialized, or management, or supervisors, or anything more than a group of people who coordinate things.
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  • There's no additional money or other perks other than they get to do most of the talking on the intercom/radio/phone and usually sit at a desk while others are on their feet doing the action.
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  • Management wants to use the new schedule to split up Team C and have them rotate with everyone else who walks around because they sit around and bch to each other all day and have big heads about their job.
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  • They all have the same job title, so they can 100% do this change legally. Bill found my husband on Facebook.
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  • They are not friends, digital or otherwise. He messaged my husband on his day off using Facebook messenger and wrote a super long piece.
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  • He quoted Union handbook. He told us how super important his job was. How \management loves them the most\ and it's the Union and other workers who are jealous of Team C.
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  • How they've never had proper input on the process (which is almost done now). He demanded: \- a copy of ALL meeting minutes from the committee be sent to his personal email (6 months worth)\-to have my husband deliver a schedule Bill wrote to the committee, because the ones they're. voting on are bad.
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  • \- to know everything that was said about Team C that was not in the minutes, and who said it \- it had to be done that day, because the vote on the schedules is happening this week and he needed time to prepare and state his case.
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  • My dude. You're late to the party. It's my husband's \day off\, and he's a fricken normie volunteer!
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  • Ask someone at work! Ask the actual union rep! My husband actually replied to him on Facebook, but way nicer than I would have.
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  • Did I mention that management is the driver between splitting up Team C? Who's gonna tell Bill his crappy new schedule is his big headed team's fault and it's not the union who's against him?
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  • For added fun and information: management's schedule changes last time included a test for Team B's breakup.
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  • They were scheduled in the same area all the time and ALSO got big heads, thought they were better than others, and sat around in an "I'm better than everyone else" circle jerk.
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  • Since it worked for Team B... they're doing it again with Team C. For once, I'm on management's side.
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