Once, when working vacation relief at WNBC, I wound up working on my scheduled day off, which turned out to be the Fourth of July, and it was short turnaround from the previous day. I wound up working for an hour and a half at a rate that made that hour and a half pay me as much as I made in an ordinary week. The IBEW rules were very specific. But there was no way for me to work from home in those days. I was usually editing sound bytes for the news guys. And there was one reporter, who had been hired by the news director because he'd been fucking her. I always had to edit her reports very tightly - she couldn't do an interview to save her life. I think I bought new shoes with that paycheck.
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