My husband is a construction site supervisor for a small company. Beyond being the site supervisor he also is expected to do the construction work and pickup the materials and do anything else his boss decides to heap on him that day. His boss is a very unorganized person and he often likes to throw my husband under the bus to save face to the customers. His boss currently took a job that's an hour and a half away and all my husband's coworkers are getting paid travel time but my husband isn't because he is the only worker that's paid a salary instead of hourly. There is no benefits. He gets the minimum vacation time although his boss gets very upset when my husband takes time off because the whole company has to shut down whenever my husband takes time off because things don't get done when my husband isn't there.
My husband is so frustrated with his job as is. He comes home every evening so frustrated he rants about it for a minimum of 20 minutes but sometimes it goes on for hours. I'm so frustrated for my husband. I'm worried about his mental health because I can see he is burnt out. Whenever he brings up issues he has with his boss, his boss always promises that things will change but in practice it doesn't. My husband asked if he could only have 2 or 3 workers on site because if there is any more they just get in each other's way and then my husband can't get his work done because he gets too busy coordinating every one else. His boss will then send 4-5 workers and tell my husband he better get used to it. Boss man then gets upset when my husband doesn't get his work done and that labor costs on the job are too high.
My hopes is that my husband takes the a job he was offered that pays more and has benefits but my husband is worried that if he leaves his current job his boss will be forced to shut down the whole company and his boss will be forced out of retirement. Boss man used to be a really good boss and he used to treat my husband well but as soon as the construction company started getting high end clients that all has changed.
I keep telling my husband that it's not healthy to continue working for this guy. I told him just to put in his 2 weeks notice and tell his boss no hard feelings but it's time he moves on.