It was a weeknight, 9:47 PM. An employee was just starting to unwind when a message from work came through asking if he could “just quickly” do something. Forty minutes later, he was still typing.
No overtime pay. No apology. Just the quiet understanding that this was somehow expected of him, that his time, after hours and off the clock, still belonged to his job. He posted about it on Reddit and the response was immediate. Thousands of people said the same thing happened to them.
