Manager asks employee to work until 8pm on Friday, gets mad when they already had plans: 'The project wasn't urgent and could have been done Monday'

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  My manager asked me to work late on a Friday and got mad when I said I had plans.

  
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• That's what happened to this worker who tried to draw a boundary around when they were going to work and not, but found that their boss wasn't quite ready to hear what they had to say. Read on to see what happened in this situation and decide what you would have done. 

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