Manager gives employee urgent tasks at 4:55 p.m. on Fridays, when their office hours are till 5, the employee finally stands up and says "no" to them: 'A coworker told me I’m making things harder for everyone'

Why does it have to be at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday?Is there a reason why managers love to assign employees tasks that are supposed to be "urgent" for Monday morning, 5 minutes before the office day is over on Friday? Is there a real reason for it? Because it's never truly urgent. And it could definitely have been assigned on Thursday or even Wednesday. So why push it till Friday, and more specifically, why push it till Friday at 4:55 p.m.? What made the task important 5 minutes before the day was over? It wasn´t important, and now it is? Did it create itself just now without any kind of previous notice? Is it some unavoidable task that keeps creating itself always 5 minutes before the employee leaves? I fully cannot understand it. I think there is only one reason why this story keeps repeating itself. Your boss is doing it on purpose. In all seriousness. We can think of a million fantastic reasons why a task has to always be assigned at 4:55 on a Friday. But the truth is right there, and it can't be denied. The task is not creating itself. It's a tactic created by horrible managers to make employees more overworked and manageable. Is a micromanagement tactic. They have you all weeken…

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