Woman Refuses To Go Beyond 9-5 For Her Salaried Position, Work Drama Ensues

A woman asked Reddit's "Am I the A**hole" community for help, saying that her colleagues were frustrated with her when she told their boss that it was not possible for her to answer his calls or work on weekends with little to no notice.

Redditor u/freeefinally wrote in her post, which received 17,000 upvotes, that she accepted a salaried job and was told she would work reasonable hours. However, that turned out to be a lie and her boss began calling her personal cell at night and on weekends to ask if she could come to work. Continue scrolling to learn how everything went down.

Maintaining boundaries between work life and personal life plays an active role in keeping stress levels under control. However, it has become quite a challenge.

"Work has fully invaded our personal lives in that we can work 24/7, but the reverse is not necessarily true,” Christine Carter, Ph.D., who is a sociologist and senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told NBC News. "We don't take our personal lives to work in the same ways that we are taking our work into our personal lives."

To prevent the problem from getting worse, Carter and other industry experts hope to see some changes in the next decade. They include:

1. Employees need to be able to take their home life to work, too;

2. We need to dispel the myth of multitasking;

3. We need to stop measuring our worth by the sheer number of hours we work;

4. Employees need predictable time off;

5. We need policies about our digital devices;

6. We need to continue the conversation about caregiving responsibilities;

7. We need to continue talking about gender discrimination and harassment in the workplace;

8. Companies need to show they value their employees in the ways that matter;

For a lot of us, technology has made it possible to always be reachable so that we can be working all the time. But it's these types of things we need if we want wellbeing, productivity, and innovation in the workplace. Not constant availability.