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While I'm not privy to employment law, just wanted to say good luck in your job search, you don't need to put up with that!
Employment is at will so you CAN get fired for no reason at all BUT VERY UNLIKELY you’d get fired for this unless it’s part of a pattern.
AVP, which firm you at? Remind me to cross it off my list.
I can’t understand how he has the ability to do that except the firm is trash and you’d be better of elsewhere.
Can you? Yes. Will you? Probably and hopefully not.
Nope. Tell him you’re sorry, but you cannot. You’ll check in the morning. The end. It’s okay to have boundaries.
Or her*****
Is you are in the US, you are employed at will - so regardless of all the previously fact free emotional posts - you can be fired at any time for any reason.
Doubtful, but I don’t know your firm.
At BCG we would flag such commitments ahead of time and definitely work around them. Even if there was a last minute « urgency » (which there rarely is when teams plan properly and you think really hard about what is truly urgent...) you definitely wouldn’t get fired for saying no (but if it put the team in a tough spot and is a recurring pattern, then that’s another story.. might show up as being a bad team player)
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I think it depends on the situation.
If you have something big due tomorrow and work needs to be done on it (you haven't finished, there's feedback you need to address, the data is wrong and analysis needs to be updated), you need to take responsibility and get it done.
If people are asking you to work because they would prefer to have something tomorrow, then I think there's room for some negotiation.