I work at a funeral home, and I also live on site. I am on call every other week for a week at a time. Of every month, I have 2 weekends where I am not on call.
I also work during the day regardless of my on call roster. So, Monday to Friday 8 till 4 I arrange funerals, conduct funerals, transfer deceased into our care or other funeral director adjacent duties.
Every other week, Monday to Friday from 4.30pm until 8am I answer all calls, meet with families to drop off/ pick up items, call out the transfer staff, and manage solo on the weekend. I cannot leave the property during this time.
My counter part, who I alternate on call weeks with, also lives on the property. We each have a small 2 bedroom house with a small yard. They have been in the role for 10 years, and they are also the manager of the office where I work from. They are not my direct manager, however.
This person has devoted their entire existence to being a yes man. They say yes when they don't need to and it fucks me. They agree to shit which I will need to do, without considering me or asking me, and tell me “it's part of your on call role”.
Today was the last time.
Today I had an exhumation which I had to perform. I am one of the few people certified to perform these within the company and I had to be at the cemetery at 8am. BUT WAIT…. I am on call. I ask my direct manager what to do, they tell me to hand over to my counterpart at 7am so I can be at the cemetery on time. I do this.
I exhume a body which has been buried for less than a year. It's… a time.
I return home, shower, and return to work. I inform my counterpart that as I started work at 7am I'd finish at 3pm. They disagree. “You're on call. It's your job”. I CANT BE ON CALL AND EXHUMING A BODY AT THE SAME TIME.
They go over my head to my manager, have my manager rescind my adjusted finish time, then call me to tell me.
I hang up and call the CEO. CEO agrees with me. Good.
I cannot understand why this person was so upset that I would be either finishing early or asking to be paid overtime. The only reason I can find is that they are such a yes man that they wouldn't ask for this themselves. Or that “they never got that so I shouldnt” or similar. The mind boggles.
“It's part of your job”
No, it's not.