What To Say If Your Boss Asks You To Work On The Weekend

Say no more, you’ll get August off, too.

This works best if you start pretending you have a child a few years in advance.

As an added bonus, your boss will be extremely impressed by your commitment to dental hygiene.

This classic appeal to emotion should bring him around. Plus, the man will be in for one heck of a night if he doesn’t realize the error of his ways.

A good boss will recognize their workers’ need to go absolutely buck-wild.

Bosses will always honor their vague commitments.

Good to give them a heads-up to make sure they’re available.

Be advised this will likely result in you working over the weekend.

Surely they’re not suggesting we relax our vigil upon the forces of Lord Slazzath?

While you may be tempted to push back on your boss’s request, in the grand scheme of things, you’re going to die whether you work Saturday or not.

As long as you give them a heads-up, this is an acceptable course of action.

They definitely won’t ask you to work next weekend, too.

You have to say this in America in order to avoid losing health insurance.

Preventing a rage quit is important for the company as a whole.

Your boss might get nervous that there are other bidders lined up and jump at the opportunity to pay you only $80 an hour.

Your boss is sure to understand that she doesn’t pay you nearly enough to survive on that one income alone.

Lull them to sleep with a classic bedtime song, and they’ll wake up thinking it was all a dream.

This seems like a fair trade.

Maybe the league would be open to moving games to Monday.

No good boss would ever stand in the way of an employee’s creative expression.

If it was good enough for ancient Egyptians, it’s good enough for you.

Just say you’re otherwise engaged.

Say no more.