"The walls are starting to close in on me!"- Sassy Pike

SNW s1e8 "The Elysian Kingdom"

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- "make it no."
  
  I'll take "Things I want printed on my coffee mug" for $100, Alex.
- It would have been an implied "no" because I wouldn't have even answered the phone.
- This, definitely
- MFW they don't even bother asking anymore, having just made it "expected":-|
  
  This was me in previous jobs. I was on call 24/7 with no breaks for like 6 months. I was getting paged in the middle of the night 3 to 4 nights a week. It came closer to killing me. Subsequent jobs I have not allowed that. I may be lucky it's worked out for me since.
Can someone explain how this works in the US? If my work said this to me I’d feel totally comfortable saying no, and if I did come in I’d charge for transport and get double time.
- Well, in this particular instance, they asked on Wednesday to make up for time lost last week when I had to deal with a family emergency. So, I can understand that request. Otherwise, if a full-time employee is under by X hours, then they can usually get away with the request. Asking beyond that is overtime.
  
  Fuck everything about that. A family emergency is an emergency. This is only within the ballpark of reasonable if you don'g have the time off to spend and need to have the hours in.
That episode is one of my favorite episodes of SNW ever.
- Funny as hell... and then that emotional gut punch.
I pretty much work every weekend now as a freelancer, but they can’t have my Tuesday night D&D!

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