When You’re Done With Office Work But Your Boss Calls Last Minute

It’s 5:55 PM. Your mind is miles away from the office, already picturing yourself stretched out on the couch or enjoying some hard-earned downtime. You've closed up your laptop, tidied your desk, and are just seconds from clocking out when—you hear it. The dreaded ding from your phone. It’s your boss, and that last message reads something like, “Hey, can you handle one quick thing?”

Your heart drops as reality hits: freedom will have to wait. You open the message carefully, weighing just how “quick” this task might really be. Part of you is hoping it’s just a five-minute job, something you can wrap up with minimal effort. But there’s a nagging feeling that it’s one of those tasks that could easily drag on—potentially taking your whole evening along with it. Still, you’re determined to handle this gracefully, so you gather yourself.

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Then it happens. Ding! You glance at your phone, praying it’s just a spam email—but no. It’s from the boss. The message reads: “Hey, can you do one quick thing before you go?”

You stare at the screen like:

Internal monologue: “Quick? QUICK?! There’s no such thing as quick with you!”

Reality sets in: freedom has been postponed indefinitely. You reluctantly open your laptop back up, eyes rolling so hard they nearly fall out of your head. As you start typing, you’re suddenly imagining yourself in every action movie scene where the hero dramatically turns around for “one last mission.”

Caption: “When you were about to escape, but your boss pulls you back in. Just when you thought you were out…”

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