Fired for not doing your work after hours... Sure.
When I was working on my business degree, I started working at a tax preparation place a block from my apartment. Thought this would be perfect: I could walk to work, child's school, and after-school program (all in a 4 block radius). I had switched to online courses. Plus it'll be great experience for my resume.
The manager seemed nice at first. Once I told her I was working on my business degree, she asked about what I've learned so far. I told her. She said if I helped her with some of the office stuff, I could make more money.
Things were going great for a while. I'd help the manager with simple things like attaching the daily reports to the emails to corporate, etc. I was there everyday, early if I just dropped off my child at school. Stayed late on days my child went to the after-school program. I helped other employees that had trouble learning the tax preparation, and showed them easy was to remember.
Then one night when I just put my child to bed, the manager called and asking how to attach the daily report to the email to corporate. I said to click on the paper clip icon. She said there wasn't one, I said that I pointed it out to her several times. She said it's not there and said I had to come to the office now to help her. I said, "Give me 5 minutes to ask my downstairs neighbor to watch my child." She replied, "No, you come right now." I said I couldn't leave my child alone. The manager said, "Don't care. Since you're not willing to come in and work, you're fire." I said, "I'm willing to come in, I just need 5 minutes." She yelled, "FIRED!"
A week later as I dropped off my child at school and was walking back home to do school work, the manager saw me through the window and ran out. She said (sweetly), "Your check is here, why don't you come in and get it." I replied, "I have direct deposit, already got it." She (sounding desperate) says, "I have a check for you in the office, why don't you come in and get it." I just kept walking and saying, "I'm not going anywhere with you." I heard her angrily screaming, but I kept going.
Thought nothing of her until just before the next tax season when I was out grocery shopping. As soon as I stepped in the store, I saw the office's assistant manager. Worried that she would be anything like the manager, I started to just leave. She ran up to me and begged me to wait. I just stood there and listened. She said the old manager was fired, she was the new manager. She also said she had been watching me the whole time I worked there. "You're great with the clients, you're great with your co-workers. You obviously know your stuff, and I would like you to come back." After some thinking, I agreed.
When she was prepping to train the next group of employees for that tax season, I offered to come in to help with phones and walk-ins so she could focus on the class. While she was teaching and I was covering phones, our regional manager stopped in. He introduced himself to me and I him, I said I offered to help so the manager could focus on the class. When someone had a problem understanding a certain part, I shared what I use to remember.
When class was over, I walked across the street to get my child from school and we stopped back at the office. When I came in, I saw the news manager and regional manager were in the back office. I was gathering my stuff as my child just started picking up papers and trash left over from the class. They came out of the office and saw my child help clean up, RM thanked her for cleaning and paid her a couple dollars.
Then the RN asked about my school. I said I was graduating that summer with my Bachelor's in Business Management. He asked what I wanted to stay working with them, I said a raise and a cool title for my resume. And that's how I became the assistant manager and marketing director.