Does anyone have any advice on how to push back on unreasonable demands (e.g. supervisor tells you Friday afternoon they want a complete draft Monday morning, when you're not meeting with the client for a week)? I don't want special treatment because I have kids, but a little consideration would be nice when the night/weekend work isn't actually necessary.

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I would just say “I won’t have much time this weekend to work on this, I have personal commitments (including x little ones), but since we have a week before the meeting why don’t I put some time on your calendar for x (day of week) instead for a first round review, and y (day of week) to finalize things? I’ll check your calendar for times"

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Regardless of having kids or not, you have a life. Set expectations but offer alternatives :)

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I would push back saying exactly what you said in your post

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Exactly. You can say you're happy to start working on it the rest of the afternoon but won't have a draft ready until X

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