I'm a Junior Buyer in a small-ish business that builds custom wire harnesses and such. My job pays me a little over $18 an hour for the position, and I already work from 8am to 5pm. The plus side is I do get an hour long lunch break (unpaid, naturally), but the downside is that it takes 30-45 minutes of commute just to get to work, and even longer to get home.
Well, today, my boss had the nerve to ask if I'd be willing to bump my hours to 7am to 5pm! I declared off the bat that I wouldn't consider it without both a pay raise (since my last pay raise wasn't even $1 per hour, hence the a little over $18 I make) and the chance to work from home. My boss reluctantly said there was no consideration for me to work from home, and I said no deal.
“Well, it's not so bad working 10 hours….”
“I'm already dedicating roughly 10 hours a day to this place, I just don't get paid for 2 of them.”
As nice as the 10 hours of over time would be (especially since I don't even qualify for a 1 bed 1 bath near my job at the moment), there is just no way I could spend literally half my day or more just to do office work that I usually manage in 8 hours.
Edit: to clarify, they aren't asking me to swap to a 10 hour day, 4 days a week schedule. This would be a 10 hour day, 5 days a week with an hour+ commute time (which my job knows about).