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    Office manager demands receptionist cover his shift unpaid and last minute, receptionist refuses, causing manager to miss client meeting: ‘I documented it and emailed HR’

    If you want your boss to like you and respect you as their employee, sometimes you have to do things at work that you are not a fan of. Whether it is doing something outside your line of work, or sitting through a meeting you have no desire to be in. Work is rarely a place where you only do what you were hired to do in the first place, as funny as it may sound.

    However, there are certain things your boss simply cannot ask of you, no matter what, and if they did, it is more than acceptable, and even crucial, to say no.

    When the office manager in the story below kept calling out of shifts at the last minute, he turned to his receptionist to cover for him. At first, she agreed, until she realized he was, simply put, taking advantage of her. This led her to refuse to cover his latest shift, even though it meant missing a huge client meeting. He was furious, but she was done with being on his beck and call…

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