A discomfort chief begging a worker who arrives on his day off has left the Internet stunned.
The expert in the workplace of the United Kingdom, Ben Askins, often becomes viral for sharing anonymous text messages between workers and their bosses.
Askins reads exchanges and then offers its advice, and 9 out of 10 times, it is usually on the worker’s side.
The expert at the workplace seemed surprised while reading a wild exchange between a boss and a worker who was being persecuted to go to work on his day off.
He began innocently: the boss sent a text message and said that the workplace was “beaten” and asked if the worker was free.
“I really need you to come today,” the boss pressed.
The worker responded politely and explained that they were with the family and could not enter the last minute.
“I would do it if I could, but I am with the family,” the worker wrote.
The boss shook the worker’s excuse and said someone had called to get sick, calling them “bastard” and explain again that they really needed the worker to come on his free day to cover his co -worker.
The worker replied: “I can literally enter today,” he added that he would take a couple of hours even get to work anyway.
The boss jumped on that and said: “Two hours are fine; I can cover you until then,” which led the worker to say once again that it was not really a time factor; They simply could not come to work.
“I can’t enter,” said the worker.
The boss then increased things.
“Come on! You can’t rescue me like this,” the boss torn.
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“How am I rescuing? It’s my day off and I never said I could do it,” the worker reasoned.
The boss did not yield and said the worker said they could be with two hours and then threatened to tell someone else in the company about his refusal to work.
The worker did not give up and simply said that the boss could tell whoever wanted, but that he would not be working today.
“I’m not entering,” said the worker.
Askins said the worker had remained “fair” throughout the exchange, but the boss was ridiculous.
The expert at the workplace said it is obvious: at no time for the exchange, the worker agreed to enter within two hours and criticized the boss for deliberately misunderstanding.
“You are not so dumb. That is absolutely ridiculous. If you can cover the first two hours, why can’t you cover the rest?” Asked.
Askins said it is “good to ask people to enter” and cover a turn and win extra money if they wish, but it is never good to threaten workers.
“If they say no, you have to accept that, it is your work to find another solution, not only to hammer them and deliberately misunderstanding what they say,” he said.
Online people were surprised by the boss.
Someone said that “I could not believe that these types of people were out there,” another said it was “strange gasoline” for the boss, and another said they would “inform” the boss to HR.
In general, however, the exchange led workers to point out that they should not feel forced to respond to their boss outside ours.
“Let’s normalize not to respond to the texts in the workplace in our free days,” said one.
“Remember. Do not answer work things after work; nothing has never happened,” said another.
“Here is a wild concept: it is your day off, so don’t answer the message,” said someone else.
Last year, Australia introduced a new law in the workplace, the right to disconnect, which gives the personnel who work in a business with 15 or more employees the right to reject contact outside their hours of work.
These rules will also apply to small businesses as of August 26, 2025.
