Managers Expecting Employees to Work Unpaid Overtime

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Managers Expecting Employees to Work Unpaid Overtime
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Some managers believe they are entitled to their employee's free time, expecting them to work unpaid overtime.

Some managers seem to be perpetually suffering with intense delusions of grandeur, that culminate with them truly believing the idea that they are entitled to their employee’s free time. The concept that most people engage withWe reached out to the employee in the story via private message and will update the article when they get back to us.While fifteen minutes might not seem like a long time, it still adds up to five hours a month, assuming the employee works five days a week.

Of course, the employee in question could just quit, and in a perfect world, that’s what they would do at the first signs of manager overreach. Since we all live in an imperfect world, this worker did the next best thing, protest. If every employee refuses to back down, managers become a lot less able to push folks around.It’s important to note that the employee here was by no means causing issues. They were on time and the manager seems to have had no other complaints.

Similarly, there could be a risk that, by leaving no room for error, like traffic, some difficulties finding one’s keys in the morning or any other issue. This would mean that, inevitably, they show up late. However, again, this employee has not had punctuality issues in the past and, importantly, “spending” hours every month on the off chance that you might be twenty minutes late one day or another is overkill.

All in all, the real issue is manager overreach. If this worker was actually causing issues, this request would be in order. However, it’s simply not the case. Indeed, the manager’s reaction, or, in reality, overreaction to the pushback should be a significant red flag for anyone.

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