You’re not wrong, but in the commercial/industrial building trades, we welcome it from time to time. I made about $3500usd that week.
Yeah, I’ve been there as well. But the older I get the more I hate companies counting on their staff to pull them out of their failed strategy. It’s great if it’s a once every few months event, but bosses tend to get too comfy with it, at least it was like that for me. And in my first job they didn’t even pay that much.