If your boss asked you to......?

If im just new to the job i might say ok .Its not that easy to work overtime without any pay. Hey its not that i really dont like the thought but sometimes we need to tend so many stuff after work too and if our time will be sacrificed i think it should be fairly compensated.Im just tryin to give you an honest opinion, but then again if your pretty free and its fine with you then its still your final say ;) Its just that we need to be practical every now and then. Thanks for asking and happy mylotting! ;)

It depends.If I am in the job for a long time and that to get a new would be difficult then there would be no way but work overtime and continue. If I have choices and capable of securing a job in a month or two, better than the current, then perhaps I wold think over and decide quits. But the current job scenario is not so encouraging and bosses who recognized this would exploit employees to work more time than in agreed upon timings. I would give an example of India. In India sometime ago employees were paid extra money called over time allowance to make up for the extra hours worked than the scheduled. What happened was employees started doing less and less work in the scheduled times and more in the extra time thus multiplying their income and putting the government to loss. Subsequently, as unemployment has increased and the competition for securing jobs had gone up, the Government scrapped payment of overtime allowance. Now even in the hardcore Government companies, employees work overtime because of the fear that they be transferred to far off places of working from the present ones and also the boss would make daily work a hell should he not be heeded. Having undergone troubles in a job myself I got transferred o to a remote place of working work stress is less. Sounds funny isn't it?

hi lichee__china of course I had many times as I could use the extra pay and I loved my job anyway. but now I have been retired for a long time. I used to work in the Tustin library shelving books. often we were short handed so worked extra hours to fill in, and enjoyed the work. but i did get paid for it, I do not think I would have done it for free as it was not that high paying a job.

That's easy, I'm on salary. Any overtime is without extra pay. But you get benefits from that too. Nobody hassles you if you come in late, leave early, etc., as long as you make your deadlines...

you may receive a command such overtime. but you need to consider is who your bos. however if you work more than they should, you should receive compensation, either from others or we try to own. therefore recognizable even more information about your boss, who is your boss? usually a boss have a history of working in other places, and your friends or people you know a lot to know about your boss. unearth the information. suppose that your boss is a stingy person and not easy to give, you must work hard to create a condition that allows you had to be appreciated by your boss, for example, your boss had to send in an important business trip to a place because you can only handle the job. but if your boss is a generous man and very understanding to subordinates, then some time you just need to subtly remind your boss to remember your hard work.

It would all depend on the boss and the job, I have done it in the past, when I have been friends with the boss to help them out, I wouldnt do it obviously if I hated the boss, but if it was a job I enjoyed, and I needed a favour, like a day off, then there wouldnt be any harm in doing it as a one off. If it became a regular thing though I would have to say no, its one thing doing it as a one off but you dont want to be doing unpaid overtime every week.

If you are not benefiting while working overtime what career growth you expect from such bosses!!!! Bosses are there to fill their own stomach, dont believe any bosses assurances. Never come late to work and never go late from work.

Hi, friend. Actually i don't think we'll have any other alternatives except do as our boss ordered. It's a kind of dilemma as we all want to get extra reward which motivates us to go on. But as it happens, we have to follow the boss's instruction, or there is a great chance that we may get fired. Such an outcome, i'm afraid, is not we want since finding a job has become increasingly difficult these days.

Once would be enough only if he's got a real good reason for wanting me to do it. But still I would think otherwise because it's the law for a company or an organization to pay people when they ask people to work for overtime. Most people (or bosses in this case) don't really want you to work more hours because they like you, they just feel they could do so because they're boss. I could truly understand this because my boyfriend used to frequently work overtime. He ended up being sick, no time for himself or us, and we fought frequently, just for him to be promoted (or get extra cash). All in all, it's not a good thing to be working overtime all the time. Yet alone do it for free.

It would depend a lot on the job, the circumstances, how long and whether it was a 'one-off'. Also, the boss's attitude would make a difference. My colleagues and I frequently stay a bit longer than our shift hours because we're not prepared to leave someone uncomfortable but, if my boss asked me to stay for extra hours, I would expect to be paid or have the time off later. It wouldn't improve my career prospects to work for nothing in this job.

Here in the USA there a two types of workers, salary and hourly. Salaried employees get paid a set amount no matter how many hours they work. Hourly employees get paid a certain amount of money per hour and the employer is not allowed to not pay them. The employer would probably get sued if he made the hourly employee work without pay.