I've been getting paid for free for the past four months.
I had a similar thing happen to me once.
I was hired to perform a certain mission-critical task that had to be performed at a particular time two days a week. It's was a significant task involving about a hundred people that had to be done every day of the year, including holidays.
When I was hired, I was supposed to do that task on weekends and then three days during the work week help out the people who had to do the task on those days.
Everything went fine for about three months. Then one of the full-time helpers complained to their union that I was doing a helper job three days a week. In the union's view, I was taking away a helper job, which wasn't really true. I was a bonus helper. If I wasn't there, there wouldn't be a new three-day-a-week helper position.
The union got all huffy and the result was that I had to come to work, suit and all, and I sat at a computer and got paid six figures to look at LOLcats three days a week.
This went on for five years until I left for another company.
Amazingly, that was the least problematic staffing situation at that company.
I had a similar thing happen to me once.
I was hired to perform a certain mission-critical task that had to be performed at a particular time two days a week. It's was a significant task involving about a hundred people that had to be done every day of the year, including holidays.
When I was hired, I was supposed to do that task on weekends and then three days during the work week help out the people who had to do the task on those days.
Everything went fine for about three months. Then one of the full-time helpers complained to their union that I was doing a helper job three days a week. In the union's view, I was taking away a helper job, which wasn't really true. I was a bonus helper. If I wasn't there, there wouldn't be a new three-day-a-week helper position.
The union got all huffy and the result was that I had to come to work, suit and all, and I sat at a computer and got paid six figures to look at LOLcats three days a week.
This went on for five years until I left for another company.
Amazingly, that was the least problematic staffing situation at that company.