Pretty much title. Last week my direct manager decided to schedule a meeting at 4:15pm on Friday, which already in itself seems bitchy af, but then when the meeting ended up taking over 45 minutes, I told her “I am sorry, but I do have plans right after this so I have to go”, she decided to go on a rant about how we should always leave the hour after work free in case we are needed and how even though our work hours are 9-5, it is really more like 8-6 in case we need to do extra stuff. I honestly could not help but laugh (I muted myself since we were on zoom) and then I told her that unfortunately, I had to go, since my scheduled does say I end at 5 and I am entitled to do whatever I want with my free time. We are supposed to continue the meeting tomorrow on Monday morning, and I am lowkey hoping my director (her boss) hops on just to see if she will bring this up, because my director is actually really chill about this whole thing. As long as we get our work done, he does not care what hours you work or what time.
Just wanted to share this little story here since it seems fitting lmao.