I worked 12-hour days for five years, but when I asked for just eight hours off to watch my only son get married, my boss laughed and said, \u201cWe\u2019re not a charity!\u201d I smiled, said, \u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d and went to the wedding anyway. The next morning, he called me 23 times before 9 AM after discovering that I had been training his nephew for six months\u2014the same nephew he planned to promote over me. When the nephew admitted he couldn\u2019t handle the workload alone, my boss desperately needed my help. I came in, fixed everything, and handed in my resignation. Two weeks later, his nephew quit too. My boss refused to give me eight hours for my son\u2019s wedding, and in the end, he lost the people who kept his business running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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