What would you do if you were completely unsupervised at your job?
Maybe you would relish the alone time, or maybe you would wonder what you were doing there in the first place. It can be nice to take the pressure off of being watched all the time, but when your boss holds themselves to such a different standard than they do you, that can be hard to swallow. If you’re making a lot less money than the folks higher up than you in the company, then you probably expect that they’re working harder than you. You probably know on some level that it’s a lie, but you expect at least the veneer of hard work. The person in this story, who shared their woes on the antiwork subreddit, felt a little miffed at this disparity.
You probably expect that the people who you work with are working as hard as you, if not harder. It’s bad for morale if it feels like one person is pulling all the weight while others coast along, even if that other person is the boss. The person in this story, though, certainly did not feel like this was the case. Their boss had a habit of cutting out early a lot of the time- not to do anything important, but to play golf. When you’re the boss, these are the kinds of decisions you can make for yourself. But where does that leave your employees?