#3 “My Day Is Light, Can I Leave Early?”

You can certainly leave early, but don’t act like your day is light. There’s at least 10 other things you could go do right now, so your day is never light. Instead, say what you need to go do and stop pretending like you don’t have the work to fill the last few minutes.

So for instance, “Hey, I need to go pick up my kid from school, he got out early, do you mind if I step out a few minutes early today?”