When you get a call from work offering more hours on your day off, how do you respond?

I whine to my friends. I’m salaried but often the only one there, so almost every day off I have to make a trip in for an emergency. So I whine.

it depends if i have plans. but ima hustla’ so i usually take the paper :)

Depends if their willing to let me go in for the shift that works for me, which thankfully, usually works out; they usually let me go in whenever it is convenient for me to go in. But if I really don’t want to go in on my only day off, I usually just be straight up with them and say no! haha

Priorities, you choose what fits with your needs and then your wants.
Right now I work on-call so I’m up and dressed by 6am each day, ready for anything.

When I had a job like that, if I truly didn’t have plans, I might take the hours. Basically because I was a poor, broke college student. I haven’t had a job where I was paid hourly in a long time, and now I’m self-employed. I remember those days, though. I had to take the hours, if I wanted to eat and pay for school!

I can tell you from the employer side of things, if I was in a bind, already working to cover someone’s hours, and I called someone and they helped me out – I always remembered their willingness to help. I would find a way to reward them. I didn’t brow beat anyone into working, though. It was their day off.

In this economy I am taking on every side job I can get.

no f’ing way!

I’m salaried.

Depends if the pay rate is NHS or private.

I find it annoying, because my work knows it’s near impossible for me to find a sitter. And no one ever works for me, so I hate working for others now…

I put in my 40 every week, so no. I do have a life outside of my wage slave status. I work 2nd shift, my wife works 1st, so our weekends are for US.

My work is project based, so I work as much as I have to when it is busy and enjoy the rest when it is not.

I work fifty hours at the day job and teach an additional five to fifteen hours at night.

My answer would be: “You have reached the phone of cprevite. Please leave your name and number at the beep…”

I’m salaried, so the answer is no. In the past, when I’ve worked a salary+overtime job, the answer has depended on how badly I wanted the money versus how much I wanted to not work.