Yahoo for overtime! I worked at the phone company in Rochester, NY for about five months and some of the guys who had been there a while were telling me about the motherload of all OT.
The phone system is actually run off an assload of big batteries, which is why your phone still works when the power goes out. The batteries are kept constantly charged by the power, and if it were to fail, will continue to run for maybe 8-12 hours.
A few years before I moved to Rochester they had an ice storm that pretty much shut the city down for a week. All over transformers were blowing up and lines were snapping due to the weight of the ice.
So for times like these, the phone companies has big portable diesel generators. They drive them to a central office, hook them up to the batteries and charge them up. The charging apparently takes a pretty long time; at least a couple of hours. When they're done, they unhook everything and drive to the next CO and do it again. After a few cycles, they need to head back to the first one because the power is about to run out again.
Since there really wasn't anything they could do, most of the guys would hook things up and crawl into the truck to sleep.
Some of these guys worked all week long with no breaks. We're talking about maybe 120-140 hours of OT; probably some double or even triple time.
That would be sweet.
On the other side of the spectrum is my wife who has in the past couple years worked an awful lot for very little. She's doing her residency and she salaried. They also seem to take this time to work them like dogs. She was doing a trauma surgery rotation which was 32 hours on, 16 hours off for an entire month. She never really did much at home except sleep. If you worked it out she was probably making less than minimum wage that month.
So get while the gettin's good! Suck up the OT and stick it to the man. And if you can swill and post comics at the same time, more power to you.