This read like a normal workplace to me. It exists somewhere in the space between poor management, not setting boundaries (because you're too worried someone wi

This read like a normal workplace to me. It exists somewhere in the space between poor management, not setting boundaries (because you're too worried someone will be disappointed), and all of that leading to abuse of the zero marginal cost of a salaried employee's time. Anyway, I mostly think the writer was just not standing up for himself. It read like something in the military, but when there's no legal implications to telling someone his request is unreasonable... then I think it's self-inflicted.