Company gets rid of evening security guard, then demands last employee to leave to take care of closing duties, employee refuses: ‘I'm leaving at 5 from now on’

What tasks beyond your job description would you never agree to do at work?One of my first jobs was a teacher's assistant in a high school. My job was to accompany struggling students in lessons and tutor them before big exams. A task that I often found myself doing that had nothing to do with being a teacher's assistant was to shred the principal's documents. She would have piles of documents ready for me every week, and I would spend every free period in her office, shredding them away. I absolutely hated doing something that had nothing to do with my actual job.I wish I had said something to my boss to bring it to a stop, but I didn't have the nerve. Other employees, like the one in the story below, have no problem standing their ground and making sure they aren't being tasked with something beyond their job description. When this employee noticed that the office's evening security guard was no longer around, they didn't think much about it. But when one night the employee found themselves the last one at the office, they realized that without the security guard, the closing duties fell on them. Suddenly, the employee was getting instructions from their boss on how to lock the …

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