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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would removed people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.

Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn't want to go through the "shame of divorce"(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).

Hope that dude stubs his toes every morning.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm unemployed and my wife works from home 3 days a week. Seems like most weeks she makes an excuse to her boss to work at home the remaining days. I need my alone time, and I made that clear very early in our courtship. Just got in a blowout fight last week over it. My fault as I held my resentment in and blew, but I can't broach the issue without her feeling rejected. I know because I've tried in the past.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I was in a similar situation at my first job, except my boss didn't have a wife and instead lived right across the street from the office. He would say things like "We don't have a clock-in and clock-out attitude here". Or one time he kicked off a project where he divided up groups of people and wanted them to start brainstorming ideas for an app we could implement with our product. Except he specifically said we couldn't work on it during work hours. So guess what, nobody worked on it and Mr boss man was very disappointed in all of us. I'm so glad I don't work there anymore.

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