> "Oh, sorry, I can't. Already scheduled."
Typical pushback is a lecture about the importance of being a "team player" and pressure to cancel or reschedule things to make the boss look good.
Typical pushback is a lecture about the importance of being a "team player" and pressure to cancel or reschedule things to make the boss look good.
"Sorry, no." Done. Either it's a shitty enough work environment that they'll fire you, in which case they would have gotten around to it any way, or it's not, and they won't, and nothing happens.
This pushed three of us (out of 5) to quit in the next couple of months (after getting another job sorted).