Yesterday, myself and the 2 other guys who do my job received a rather bizarre email. It basically said that our names had been put forward as volunteers to do additional planning/resourcing work, in our own time out with work, for no additional compensation. Their reasoning was, that by doing the additional work it would make our own jobs easier. What makes this even more extraordinary is that when the most recent planner left, his job was effectively made redundant meaning there is now nobody to carry out the work. This also comes the day that my work announced redundancies in several other departments.
I've been asked to respond to the email to confirm that this is something I'll be willing to do. I've spoken to my 2 colleagues and we're all thinking of collectively ignoring the email as it is that ridiculous, that it doesn't merit a response. This all comes from a company that made $22 billion profit last year.