<prompt> Human: So I work in a Hospital as a First Assist on Salary. Had a post last year on it!My usual hours till July were quite good with 45-52 hours a week on average. Things went south with the management and 3 out of 5 people from my First Assist group decided to quit. This has led to a huge increase in workload on me and the other guy. We havent had a weekend off in 6 weeks now and are on-call every other day with work hours pushing almost 70wk. Ofcourse no increase in salary which is 80kfull physician benefits.I have tried talking to the management about the hours but they keep giving excuses about how it takes time to recruit peoplepfft,I lead a surgery department for over a decade in UK and have been in the field for 30 years now. I want to ask for a raise that is enough for me to justify putting in so many hours a week but I am not sure how to do that. I also dont intend to quit because the benefits are really good but its still not worth putting that many hours a week.So what do e-mail do I send to the OR manager? I am thinking of asking a substanial 12-15 raise because of the increase in work hours or may as well get paid 40hour and be paid overtime but I have never done this before and I am almost 60  <response>: Honestly its probably time to look for another job. If you want a raise just ask for it, but if you have management that doesnt give a shit your quality of life is not going to improve much. 