The article highlights the challenges of maintaining personal boundaries in a demanding work environment. One individual recounts their experience of taking a rare personal vacation, only to receive an email from their supervisor about work schedules. This behavior reflects a lack of respect for personal time. The situation escalates when, after a bereavement leave, the same manager subtly pressures them into traveling for work, indicating a pervasive disregard for employees' personal lives and the need for better work-life balance.
"When I took my first personal vacation in a long time, my supervisor emailed me, 'I know you're in Iceland, but I just wanted to go over the travel schedule for next week with you...' Even though they knew how rarely I took vacations for myself. Also, this vacation was only four days."
"But I didn't even quit then. It wasn't until a few months later, when I had gotten approval to take a day of bereavement for a funeral, that my manager was trying to indirectly pressure me into traveling for work right after the funeral."
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