So I have worked in my job for 18 years. I know it well. Sometimes, people will ask my boss to work late. It is an "emergency". When this occurs the boss has the option of referring it to the emergency person (because the emergency person has already expected to work late and is available) but recently this has become disfavored because it is seen as piling on. I disagree. We have a mechanism it is failing because no one will use it correctly.

Now he gets paid more than double my salary and part of the reason is the acceptance that he may, from time to time, have to do work after hours.

My day ends however at the close of business hours. This is stated clearly in a memo that we put out... but that has always been the rules.

He keeps trying to get me to stay late with him, all the time, and making me have to nicely tell him that isn't appropriate.

One reason for this, is that all the people that I work with imho betray me by doing this for their bosses... some are doing it because they are just morons... some are doing it because they want to get a promotion or something. So as more and more people fail to hold the line, more and more the expectation is that I will do this and should. Without any extra pay.

Last night he tried again and, he did keep me around for 45 minutes. I nicely told him that he was on his own and he suggests to me that I am not being appropriate. When I challenge him, he is all, well it is generally though you are my representative. I said no, even on the memo we send out it says I should only be contacted during business hours.

Our customers keep contacting me however, because of all the other employees who continue to allow the line to be blurred. Without additional pay. It is said we can get leave time. But honestly -- leave time is a joke. It is impossible to get the leave time I am owed without a fight and the person covering for me almost never does the work he is supposed to do so I come back to all my work nicely preserved for me. So extra leave time isn't worth it. It is just same work less time.

One of my friends once agreed to be on 24-7 for her boss in the hopes that he would not fire her. That backfired as she really WAS on 24 -7 and he fired her anwyway. That is absolutely something I am hoping to hold off on.

If this was going to become a part of our jobs, I would want a major increase in pay. But I know better than to ask any of my moron co employees who just want to be liked.

What really bothers me is that we have had this discussion over and over and over again every single time it comes up... he clearly has no intention of respecting it and is going to keep trying. You might say, don't answer the phone, and I have. Still he stubbornly tries to get me to stay the next time. And clearly this is souring our relationship because he thinks I should stay. It is making me very resentful of him and everyone else.

This is the second time in a month something like this happened and i am really getting tried of it and concerned that these idiots who can't say no are going to ruin it or me.