Tried to impress the boss with my work ethic by staying late to install a new VoIP system. Wasn’t even part of my job description. A few days later I had a flat tire on the way to work. It took me a couple hours to get that taken care of. When I got to work, the boss told me I had to work 2 extra hours that week to make it up. I reminded him that I had worked overtime recently to install his new phone system. He said, “Doesn’t matter. You still need to make up the hours.”

From that moment on I never worked one second more for him than I had to. I quit less than a year into the job.

What kind of boss is that? Capitalist?

@johnmelodyme All of them are capitalists who think they are in control. There is always a bigger capitalist boss to each capitalist boss. And they all think they are in control. Fucking losers.

My work ethic is to put the laptop lid down when the clock strikes EOD!

@Cyanide EOD?

Hallo

What the boss is that

@johnmelodyme explosive ordinance disposal.

What a scumbag

I stopped trying to impress dickheads a long time ago.

@tegarsyndicate Hi, how are you.

You remind me of last year when I volunteered to correct some errors I found in some old excel sheets, after hours of work, I ended up getting fired months later and my boss never recognized any of my efforts.

Moral of the story is: not because you have done something good means you will be rewarded, some people are just assholes.

Don't let that asshole destroy your work ethic.

Just quit (like you did) and move on until you find a employer who appreciates your work. I could come in to office whenever I wanted because I stayed till whenever too. No one cared if I came in noon/afternoon because they knew I worked late and often weekends too. When a colleague, who always started packing at 16h55 to be out the door at 17h, had a electrician come over at 15h and had to be there, he had to make up the hours too. The knife cuts both ways and I like working a bit more to have more flexibility in my schedule.

If my employer doesn't follow that I would just leave, because counting hours all day makes me feel like a slave/prisoner