Update: New employee refuses to work overtime, boss fires him to make an example, entire team suffers without employee's efforts: 'We didn’t need to work overtime!'

Most people who are told they won't be working overtime at their new job are inclined to believe their bosses. That's why this employee was taken aback when, just a few months into their new role, they were pressured to stay after hours despite the fact that this was not an "all hands on deck" situation.

Thankfully, the employee decided that they weren't going to back down, especially since this overtime request was a last-minute one and the author likely already made plans. Besides, they had the self-confidence to know that they were the only person on their team who knew how to perform certain functions. As such, if their boss didn't exactly like the fact that their new hire wasn't going to work overtime for him, surely he still couldn't fire them, given how indispensable they were to the whole team, right? Oh, how wrong this employee was! It turns out that one should never underestimate the power of a boss's fragile ego…

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