An employee has claimed they spent two years working 14-hour days after a manager allegedly assigned them work that they later discovered was for her husband’s personal brand.
The employee said they initially believed the work was part of their official responsibilities.
The employee questioned whose deadline they had actually been working towards and wondered whether it was connected to the husband’s brand launch. Read the full story here. The post prompted users to question why the employee had not approached the company’s HR department. (Also Read: Pune woman explains why she prefers hybrid work over permanent WFH: ‘You meet people, learn new things’ ) “Could you not report her to HR? You have all the evidence you need, no?” one user commented. (Disclaimer: This report is based on user-generated content from social media. HT.com has not independently verified the claims and does not endorse them.)
They also claimed the manager expected more than 40 creatives in a single day and regularly refused their leave requests.
(Also Read: Bittu Tabahi says people are littering less after he went viral: ‘Thoda antar aaya hai’ ) “She was so audacious and overconfident that I never even doubted her,” the employee wrote. Recalling one incident, the employee said they asked for two days off for a trip but were told, “Take your laptop along, you can work from there, I have a deadline.
I’m devastated,” the employee wrote. “I was literally working as her unpaid freelancer for 2 years and I didn’t even know it. The employee regularly worked until 10 or 11 PM because they could not fit the additional workload into a nine-hour workday, according to the post. Because of their official work, but because they failed to deliver the manager’s project perfectly, the employee also claimed they received a bad rating and zero appraisal, not.
Since it was their first job, they said they assumed the long hours were normal. The situation took another turn when they said they discovered that the project they believed was for the company was actually connected to the manager’s husband’s personal brand.
