We have had many jobs where we had to put up with low pay and numbskull bosses that treated us poorly, but we had to bite the bullet and be quiet because we needed the job to live and pay the bills and pay off student loans over decades.
Salaried people are asked to work many times "off the clock" and their work week is rarely limited to 40 hours.
Hourly workers like servers should expect their work to be "on the clock" and they should not be "threatened" with a consequence of their kids being dumped from the charter school.
But at the same time, having a good attitude and doing a little extra work above and beyond the call of duty is what most of us have done to show we have initiative, and to make ourselves known as desirous of moving up the ladder to a better paying or managerial salaried position, like a supervisor or shift manager.....in which "off the clock" work is expected as a normal part of salaried positions.
A can-do and will-do attitude goes a long way toward moving up to a better position either inside or outside that job environment.
To me, insecure bosses who enjoy bullying underlings on the job abound in almost every job situation. The choice is often to either grin and bear it, or find another job where you need it and quit working for the playground bully.
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