Still can’t believe this happened yesterday.
I work remotely as a salaried Customer Success Manager and since we normally work from about 7:30-5, M-TH, we have half days on Friday.
My boss shifted our daily stand up to 1 PM (start of weekend for me). Normally, these meetings aren’t bad and figured I could join for 10 minutes before my plans started at 2 PM.
I was wrong. Was a half hour of her explaining how we needed to essentially cold-call our customers that same afternoon (this is not our job) as well as do about 4 hours of admin work.
After that call was over, I decided disappointing my boss was definitely the better option than disappointing my girlfriend with plans she has had for weeks. About a half hour later she messages me to join another zoom meeting. I ignore it. She then has my coworker call me on my personal phone to join the zoom meeting as well. I still refuse.
I don’t know what the fallout will be, but I know that if I don’t stand my ground now, I’ll be expected to do the same thing again another week. My time off is my time off. If they decide to fire me over this, I luckily have enough saved up to last a year of expenses.