'You don't want me to [work] overtime? Okay': Boss says "No overtime," shocked when project isn't finished

When you're in charge and tell your workers not to do something, and they listen and don't do that thing, it's kind of hard to be surprised. Yet, this logic somehow doesn't apply when your boss tells you not to work overtime to finish a project that you'd need to work overtime to finish on time. Without fail, they're still surprised when it's not finished by the time the deadline passes… not that they were really paying attention to the deadline until their boss asked them about it.

This one is a bit of a challenging read, and I suspect English is the original author's second language. As such, I have edited the text of each screenshot to make it easier to read and easier on the old noggin overall. See these edits in the text below each screenshot.

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"My boss has a different priority [when it comes to] work other than our main [boss does.] Say our job is to check and verify thing client data, his priority is to attend calls that [do] not concern it (i.e. calls about the football or photography club). Our main boss is asking [for] a file to be updated by a certain day. That week we are down 2 people on the work, so we are swamped with a lot of"

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"rush requests. This file is also used by another team so updating it is a priority. The week goes by, and it is still not [updated.] The main boss asked me why [it wasn't updated.] I told him that we [were] missing [two] people on the team, so I [was] not able to reconcile it and [had] to ask my immediate boss to do it.
Well, what do you know?? He [didn't] do it. We were given until Monday to update it so I asked for permission to [work] overtime over the weekend but was advised just to enjoy the weekend [instead…] So I did."

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"Come Monday, everyone [was] going berserk because it turned out that the file [contained] errors which resulted [in] it being escalated [to] the higher-ups. [My] main boss asked me, why I [didn't] update the file over the weekend. I [told him that] I asked for permission to do it [on] Saturday but was told [not to.] We got into a meeting with [the] main boss, and [my] immediate boss was called out for not allowing me to [work] overtime. This, [in turn,] caused massive reporting issues and [huge setbacks] on the reporting side. Sorry, main boss, I [was] only following [my] immediate boss's instruction."

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