The leader sent a message in the middle of the night asking him to work overtime. Should he work overtime or just pretend he didn't see it?

There is a topic on Zhihu: What is the scariest news you have ever received in the workplace?

The final winner voted by netizens was: During the weekend break, the leader asked you if you were free?

If your boyfriend or girlfriend asks this question, you will definitely be filled with joy and reply immediately. But if this sentence comes from the mouth of a leader, many people will be at a loss. When a leader asks you if you are free, he definitely does not want to date you. The most likely reason is to ask you to work overtime.

If you do not respond to this message from the leader in time, it will definitely leave a bad impression on the leader and make him feel that he is not active in his work and has a bad attitude.

If you reply in time, no matter how you reply, it will definitely be a trap. If you say you are available, you will definitely be reimbursed for vacation and be forced to work overtime; if you directly say you are not available, you will be afraid of offending the leader.

During the weekend break, your boss asked you if you were free? It’s definitely not possible to not reply, and you should try your best to reply in a timely manner. So how can you reply so that you can protect yourself without suffering a loss? Let me share with you 3 reply routines. 1. Focus on customers and keep retreat options

During special periods such as weekend breaks, the leader will ask you if you are free? Don’t think too much, nine times out of ten I will ask you to work overtime.

In fact, you don’t need to directly reply whether you are available or unavailable. This will appear very passive and you will be controlled by the leader invisibly.

You can take the initiative, be more customer-oriented, and ask the leader: "Are you looking for me for something?" Without knowing whether you are really free, leave yourself a way out.

On the one hand, if the boss asks you for something that is not troublesome and very simple, then you can accept it happily and take the opportunity to perform well.

On the other hand, if the boss is asking you to do something very troublesome and you don’t want to accept it, or you don’t have time to do it at all, then you can refer to the following two points. 2. Make an excuse to attack the east and attack the west, side performance

Still with the same point of view, the boss asks you if you are free during the weekend break, basically asking you to work overtime.

If you are sure that you don’t want to do it and you don’t have time to do it, you can make excuses to show that you are unavailable and busy, but you don’t directly refuse the leader.

Similarly, if you don’t reply directly, you will be passive if you reply directly. I will give you a few examples of making false claims:

“What’s the matter? Boss, I’m celebrating my mother’s birthday. "

"What do you want? Tell me, I will be on the train and go to such and such a place at night to do such and such a thing."

Such pretentiousness shows that If you respond positively to the leader's "call", don't directly refuse the leader's request for overtime, and reflect from the side that you are really busy, then the leader will basically not cause trouble for you. 3. Suppress first and then improve, show yourself

If you are a newbie in the workplace, striving to make progress, and are willing to work overtime to exercise your abilities, or in another situation, you think you can’t escape this overtime, you must You are the only one.

Then don’t readily agree to your boss’s request for overtime work, saying that work is the most important and that work comes first. This will cause delays when your boss comes to you for anything during your weekend breaks. your life.

The approach of smart people is: suppress first and then promote, show yourself, and maximize your own interests.

The specific method is to first express your difficulties, and then express that you can overcome the difficulties and sacrifice your own rest time and energy to complete the overtime work assigned by the leader.

For example: "Oh, I originally made an appointment with my family to go for an outing today, but I didn't expect that the plan could not keep up with the change. I will deal with the matter you arranged immediately."

As soon as the leader heard this If so, I will definitely feel that you have sacrificed a lot for your work, and that you are very responsible for your work, trustworthy, worthy of promotion, and even ashamed of you, so I will give you some material compensation on the spot.

So, when you are on weekend break, your boss asks you if you are free? Don’t be too anxious to directly answer whether you do. Learn these three tricks to seize the initiative and protect your own interests without offending the leader.

So, if your boss asks you if you are free while you are taking a break? How do you answer that? Welcome to leave a message for discussion.

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