The overtime use to be nuts. I’m not sure what it’s like today, but the older guy I knew 10 years ago who wouldn’t give it up. He worked for Otis elevators, and they had a contract with one of the local colleges where if they were called out for anything, no matter how quick and silly it was, it was mandatory three hours overtime. You wouldn’t believe how often the stupid kids would drop shit into the shafts, and that’s all he had to show up to do. On top of that, he happened to live within 15 minutes of the one they had the contract with. I bet he still holding on to that gig deep into his 70s.
I think the elevator union guys with their overtime pay were making even more than the project manager lol