‘Common sense’: Wild reason boss disrupted worker’s holiday

A worker has shared the wild text their boss sent them while they were away on holidays.

A boss is going viral for picking a fight with an employee while they were on annual leave.

UK workplace expert Ben Askins has garnered over 28 million likes on social media by sharing anonymous text message exchanges between workers and their managers.

Mr Askins also offers his own advice, and the series has gone incredibly viral as people love getting a peek into other people’s working lives.

A recent anonymous exchange he shared has really got people talking. It was posted two days ago and already has 87,000 views.

The exchange didn’t start off great, with the boss immediately acknowledging they were contacting the worker on holidays.

“Hey, I know you’re on holiday, but I thought you said you were going to leave a handover,” the boss texted.

“Hey! I did. I left a copy on your desk like you asked,” the worker replied.

The worker was on holidays and was being texted over this matter. Picture:

The anonymous boss didn’t relent and kept going.

“I can’t see it anywhere. You should have emailed it to me too. We are meant to be onboarding the new girl in the morning,” The boss fired back.

“Sorry. You just asked me to print it out so I didn’t think. We’re out atm but I can email it when I get back to the hotel,” the employee offered.

“Emailing is just common sense for these types of things, mate. I’ll see if anyone else knows how to set her up on the system but send it ASAP,” the boss.

Mr Askins claimed it was the boss that was at fault. Picture: TikTok/BenAskins

He couldn’t understand why the boss even asked for a hard copy instead of an email. Picture: TikTok/BenAskins

Mr Askins argued that although he agreed emailing makes the most sense, the boss needs to take responsibility because he was the one who asked for a hard copy.

“This has to be your fault. I’m sorry but this has to be your fault,” he said.

“Obviously, you should be emailing instead of print. Why the boss was asking for that I’ve got absolutely no idea. It really is such poor management,” he said.

Mr Askins said “badgering” an employee on holidays is never ideal and seemed very preventable in this case.

No one liked the idea of the worker having to deal with work while on holidays. Picture: iStock

Online people were on the workers’ side, arguing that if you’re on holiday, you should be left alone to relax.

“I wouldn’t have replied,” one said.

“Should he not also know how to set her up?” Another argued.

Someone else said because they have “work anxiety” they’d have emailed and printed it off to make sure their boss had it before they went away.

“Just to make sure they have it and then can’t moan at me for not either sending by email or printing a hard copy,” the person said.

“No email for them when they’re being rude. I mean I wouldn’t answer in the first place. If they keep trying to bother me I would just block the number temporarily,” someone else said.

“I’m not checking my work email when I’m on holiday. They’ll survive,” another shared.

“Some bosses are really useless when people are on holiday,” someone else said.

While another argued that it shouldn’t become the employee’s fault just because their boss lost the document.