Think You Got It Bad Working 40 Hours A Week? This Boss Wants To Fire An Employee For "Only" Working 60 Hours A Week

They even called him lazy. LAZY.

Sophia

• Published in Interesting
• August 28, 2022

Most of us have come to a point in life where we are done romanticizing overworking ourselves and we would just rather come home and rest; because after all, we're still just humans who have a life. Toxic workplaces still unfortunately exist, and that may most often come with an equally toxic boss who thinks that their employees' lives should only revolve around them and their business.

Seriously, who loves having a job that takes up too much of your personal time that it can even make you feel guilty for resting, even on weekends? The norm of working for 40 hours a week is already too much, and a lot are already shifting to jobs that give time flexibility as well as a healthy work-life balance, so it's kind of absurd that there are still some people out there who want to evolve backward and want to make their employees work for 60 hours a week or more.

Shocking right? But that's exactly the case with this certain Redditor who shared his story in an Antiwork subreddit.

Apparently, he already works 12 hours a week (which totals 60 hours per week), and his boss still wants him to "dedicate the weekends to the job, too." But OP isn't having any of it, but his boss and coworkers are trying to guilt-trip him for taking the time off on weekends.

Just take a look at the whole story below!

A certain employee vents on Reddit about how his boss wants to fire him for apparently not working enough hours a week, even if he's already spending 12 hours a day "laboring under the hot sun."

His co-workers aren't keen on having him work for *only* 60 hours a week, too, so now everyone's trying to guilt-trip him for taking the weekends off for himself.

Boss says they don't have enough people on weekends so OP should spare some time for it, too.

Despite the fact that OP is already working 20 hours more than the average working hours, it wasn't still enough for the boss and his coworkers.

They were trying to paint OP as "privileged" for being able to take the weekends off.

Apparently, an employee was already fired for taking joy rides via the company truck. That, understandable; but to fire someone for not wanting to work more than six hours a week?

Who would want to work in such a toxic place like that?

Here's what fellow Redditors have to say:

Maybe... try to hire more people?

We hope OP pushed for resignation because the people there seem so evil for even thinking that working 60 hours a week is normal!

Unfortunately, this happens quite a lot.

An even worse case would be if they were an *unpaid* intern.

You should be able to have a proper life outside of work!

Karma goes around, anyway.

Well...

Yep, that did sound sketchy.

Bold of them to even threaten that when they can't even find more employees to work on weekends!

True, and more people are already beginning to realize this. Why did we put up with this norm for so long?

Seems like he got some issues.

Know your worth.

This whole rant speaks LEVELS.

Having a considerate boss is already like winning the lottery.

Give them only what they pay for.

We truly feel bad for OP and all the commentors who can relate with the situation.

60 hours is already excessive!

Truth spilled.

It's such a cruel thing to know that some people are still keen on overworking their employees and still expect more from them, for some reason. We hope things would change for the better for OP, and he would finally get a job that treats him like a human being!

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Sophia