My boss had the worst employee satisfaction result ever seen in our group for his department. No surprise, he had oversold himself to get the job and when his idiotic project of redoing everything from the ground up started to be way delayed compared to the unrealistic promises he had made to the board, he asked everyone to go into “crunch mode” for “a short time”, work late, Saturdays, and so on. A “short time” became months…

Anyhoo, he asked us, what we could do about his shitty results because the board actually got worried. I reminded him, the work life balance sucked, people were overworked and they didn’t see any end to “the crunch” and it had to stop before any other action.

He dismissed my idea and he settled on a team lunch. But since he didn’t want to waste work time for “the crunch”, he decided to have it on a Sunday and fuck up the only off day for most of the people.

I’ve never seen a floor of people so angry than the day they got the email about that team lunch.

I told him, he dismissed it again.

That’s about when I went into quiet quitting and patiently waited to be fired while pretending to be out on meeting and actually going for walks in the park.