pov: your boss forces you to stay late and it's unpaid...

Yes, so the client just sent over a few last minute changes to the deck, so I'm just going to need you to stay on tonight and turn those around. Got it. How late are we talking? So I do think we can get an updated version out tonight, so probably a few more hours. It shouldn't be too bad. Okay, just to clarify, would that be billed to the client or logged anywhere? So no, this would be off the clock. You know, we've already maxed out the budget for this work stream, so we really can't add more hours to this project. So I would be expected to stay late and do the work, but not actually log the time? So, um, yeah, just press on. It's just one of those situations where we need to step up for the client. You know, everyone's been doing a bit extra than usual to keep things on track. I just want to be realistic. If the work is required, it feels like it should be accounted for, especially since this has happened a few times already this month. Yeah, I totally get that, you know, but this is pretty normal in most firms. Sometimes you just gotta go above and beyond to deliver. To be honest, I don't think consistently working unpaid hours is something I want to normalize long term. I've started looking around a bit and I've been auto applying on Sprout, so I've already had a few interviews in motion. If this is the expectation here, I'd rather figure that out now. So what? Now it's a problem to step up when the team needs to? Because everyone else is making it work and I'm only asking for a few hours. It's not a complete overhaul of your schedule. I simply don't think the expectation should be to do the work without it being recognized or accounted for.