I started a job a few months ago and we are having a full internal restructure now, the new boss that’s coming in is trying to boost everyone’s in depth product knowledge. Last Friday at 3pm he gave us a lot of knowledge work to do and expected us to thoroughly understand everything by Tuesday at 9am where he would give us a quiz… yes like a pop quiz… oh and yes it was a long weekend. This is completely unpaid and is expected of us as part of our low salary.
We all work Monday to Friday 9-5 and he expects us to do this outside of our work hours over. We weren’t happy about it but did it anyway, he did the same thing this weekend, giving us another in-depth knowledge task at midday on a Friday and expecting it by Monday at 9am for a quiz. He also said that if we were not able to do this then we would have to “have a tough conversation”
Time to cancel my weekend plans to do more work.
TLDR: my boss gave us unpaid homework 2 weekends in a row, and expects it done otherwise we may lose our jobs
Edit: added our non-existent pay for this task