To think that just because a manager has no life outside work doesn’t mean the rest of us should live at the office?

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I’ve worked under a few managers who clearly have nothing going on outside their job and they seem to expect everyone else to be the same. Messages at all hours, guilt-tripping over annual leave, shocked when people log off at 5. Just because they’ve made work their whole life, does that mean we’re unreasonable for having boundaries?

I think, you have too much time on your hands.

Yup. 3.5 years into a manager who has texted and phoned over weekends, on ym NWD with me giving the shortest answers re iterating that its my NWD, ignoring missed calls. Finally im at a point where he doesn't bother...... mine was ocasonal but nevertheless annoying

I agree OP. I had a manager once who basically lived at work and never seemed to want to go home. She would spend most of her day touring the building chatting and going on endless fag breaks and would then make snide comments when people logged off at 5 to go home. All her stories were from years ago and it was clear she basically did nothing at the weekends except wait for work to start again. She made a comment to me once and really didn’t like it when I replied that the reason I was able to log off on time every day was because I did not spend at least 20 minutes of every hour chatting or smoking.

Yea I have one of those. Shocked when we need to leave at 5pm and don't voluntarily want to keep working