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How To Say No To My Boss?

Hi there. Long story short, I'm a fresh grad, one month into my work, handling social media postings. My boss has two companies and so there are social media accounts for both companies (FB, IG, LinkedIn, that makes six. He wanted to resume his YouTube and open TikTok, so soon it'll be 10 different accounts for me to handle ALONE). The previous employee left a hot mess and I spent half a month just retrieving passwords on all social media accounts. Our country celebrates Eid al-Fitr (public holidays) today and my boss insists I do postings every single day. I mean, I have to handle content, captions, photography, marketing and research to support data… And now he suggests I do postings despite public holidays & Sundays. I'm just one month into this “capitalism” stuff, and I don't know if this is worth sacrificing my life for. How can I say…


Hi there. Long story short, I'm a fresh grad, one month into my work, handling social media postings. My boss has two companies and so there are social media accounts for both companies (FB, IG, LinkedIn, that makes six. He wanted to resume his YouTube and open TikTok, so soon it'll be 10 different accounts for me to handle ALONE). The previous employee left a hot mess and I spent half a month just retrieving passwords on all social media accounts.

Our country celebrates Eid al-Fitr (public holidays) today and my boss insists I do postings every single day. I mean, I have to handle content, captions, photography, marketing and research to support data… And now he suggests I do postings despite public holidays & Sundays. I'm just one month into this “capitalism” stuff, and I don't know if this is worth sacrificing my life for. How can I say “No” to him without getting fired? Or is this actually normal and correct in a workplace, for workers to work even on weekends?

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