True story, I once worked with a guy who got out of being "voluntold" to work a weekend long migration project by bringing up "I've got dad duties this weekend,

True story, I once worked with a guy who got out of being "voluntold" to work a weekend long migration project by bringing up "I've got dad duties this weekend, sorry". A few months later he and I were hanging out at a bar, the time gets away from us and I go "hey man don't let me keep you out here away from your family all night, it's cool if you gotta go". He looks at me and asks "what family?" I am confused. That's when he drops it on me: he's been at this company 5 years lying about having a family because it gets him out of doing off-hours work and nobody asked any questions, they'd just assign work to someone else. Whereas when some of the younger, childless, and more impressionable workers try to protect the boundaries of their off-time...well you see where this is going (if not: they would get talked into doing it anyway) It's a kind of malingering that I found...honestly....kind of brilliant in a bastard kind of way.