<prompt> Human: I work for a large bank, doing what is basically a phone-based sales job. Until this point, my pay has been roughly 16hour plus monthly bonuses, which have been fairly generous for an entry level position, anyway, ranging up to about 1,600month for the top performers.Yesterday they announced that theyre doing away with our bonuses and turning the average of our bonus from the last year into a part of our base pay. So now Ill be making about 24hour, with no more bonuses.Theres not a company need for overtime hours currently, but I want to work extra hours to bring in some extra income. This is something I wanted before the announcement, and now I really want it because Im making 50 more hourly than I was making prior. All of my stats make sense to let me work extra hours and pay me 1.5x pay for the overtime hours, because my productivitysalesnumber of calls handledetc. are all uniformly well above 1.5x the department median. So theoretically, theyre still getting a bargain for any hours they have to pay me 1.5x for, because one hour of my work already results in nearly twice as much productivity as the median employee.Is there a good way of asking for overtime when theres not a justification for it business-wise? I have a good relationship with my supervisor, and management is aware that Im consistently the top performer in the department. The problem is that its a very strictly regulated, corporate environment, and requests like this are not realistic unless theres a need for it based on call volume, etc. Is presenting myself as someone who is worth paying time and a half based on my stats a good strategy?  <response>: Most managers of hourly employees are given strict instructions to never give overtime. If is often cheaper to hire one more employee and cut hours across the board than to have employees work overtime. I would suspect your changes are low. 