DH leads a team at work and they have been doing very well and therefore have NO extra work and have been going home at 6pm.
DH's boss has just asked him and his team to put in extra hours for the next month "so that everyone else doesn't get jealous". This means that DH won't get home until after 10pm each night. He is sad about it as this is after DD has gone to sleep so he will only see her at weekends.
DH and his team have decided that they will put together a preview for a potential project that hasn't even been approved just to have something to do as there is no stuff coming down the pipe for their department (well, no more than they can handle during regular hours). Making up work for appearances sake FFS!
I think DH's boss is being terribly unreasonable and I suspect that the other depts would resent staying late at work just to make DH's team feel better were the situations reversed. Not that DH has ever asked this, even when the rest of the office took off for a two-week break while he was working 90+ hours per week!
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To be cross that DH's been asked to work long hours for "appearances"?
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marenmj · 01/10/2009 11:25
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