Moral / Political Question

Ok, so here's today's story:


As you know, I have been experiencing in my own flesh the troubles of working for a partially unbalanced, partically alcoholic boss. There was the issue of her not remembering my agreed upon schedule, the issue of her not wanting to give me my comission, and then there was:


THE NO RESPECT FOR MY FREE TIME ISSUE. It follows:


So, on one of my last Saturdays off, she woke me up early in the morning over the phone and basically told me to start drawing jewels (her own designs, pieces that are already made) so that the actual pieces would look more dressed up, because she needed it right away (not really).


On the following days I had off, I would get the same kind of order from her: to spend my free time drawing for her. I haven't done it, for two main reasons:

1) There is no real hurry for it, and I can whip it up when I need to (I think).

2) I think she should tell me to do it in my work time, not in my free time: I'm an employee, not a partner, and I already work unpaid overtime.



A couple of days back, she came and told me that she had called the Gemological Institute here, in Madrid asking for someone with drawing abilities to do the job. Inside, my reaction was to laugh about it, thinking she's stupidly going to spend money on hiring someone, but I know she totally means it as a blow to my face.

I talked to her and told her that as she knew, I was absolutely willing to draw for her, but that there is only so much work time, and we'd have to get organized. I also told her that it takes time to do some of those drawings, as there is a very specific technique.

See, the thing is, she always talks about having me stay at home for some time during the work week in order to do it (which, as you know I would take very seriously and do the work), but as it turns out, she always hopes I'll take 16 hour work days during my weekends.

Am I a jerk or is she?

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