Team lead dumps "urgent" task on employee 5 minutes before his shift ends every Friday, then gives him the cold shoulder when he refuses to work weekends: 'We need to talk about your commitment'

Poor scheduling on your team lead's part does not constitute a crisis on yours. If a report takes four hours, sending it five minutes before quitting time is not reasonable. Expecting an employee to manage to fit it around Saturday plans is a convenient solution for the person assigning it, but there's a time management problem the boss needs to fix rather than relying on the employees to work weekends when that's not their work schedule. Weekends, in the case of this employee, are time off. So your manager can't assign you an urgent task by Friday and expect to have it finished by Monday morning without working overtime. The original poster explained in the r/work subreddit that his shift is Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 5. Saturdays are not included. Sundays either. So his boss should be more respectful of his time. Instead, she considered his behavior a lack of commitment. The employee first stayed late and worked over the weekend, but then the situation repeated itself, and he was receiving no compensatory time off, no "thank you", and no recognition for his hard work. Naturally, he refused to keep working on weekends. This time, Monday arrived, and the employee explained that wee…

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