I remember when one of our managers was angry when not enough people signed up for overtime hours.
Evidently, we were behind on our deadlines and they needed overtime hours for us to get caught up with all the work.
Well, me along with many others had our families to go to. Personally, I had a lot going on with my family. I had to take my children to their games. My son had baseball practice and my daughter had soccer practice and not to mention my wife and I had to get out there to see their games. I thought the manager was very rude when I went to talk to him. I actually went to see him about a concern with the air quality in the building and the lack of good temperature control settings. He said that they would eventually get an HVAC professional and then he asked why I wasn’t signing up for overtime hours. I had to point out that overtime hours were not required and if the business needed more hours, he could always hire more workers as needed. He seemed very angry and he said that we all could suffer without the AC system being fixed. He said if we didn’t want to work, we didn’t deserve reasonable temperature control settings. Then he proceeded to shut off the AC system entirely and the place became stiflingly hot. This only made the situation worse as people who said they would work overtime suddenly changed their mind when the AC system wasn’t working. I reported the manager to the main boss and honestly, I hope he gets reprimanded for making everybody suffer.