Part time employee working extra hours

[pootypootwell]

Hi. I would like to hear from others regarding an issue I have where I work. I work part time (24 hrs. a week) in a surgery center. I work in the gi lab where there are 7 of us not including our manager. Whenever we are short staffed my boss wants me to work extra days. As in if someone is off for 6 weeks with surgery they want me to work 4 and 5 days a week (which I did last summer). One of the girls in my department is about to go on 3 months maternity leave and I'm really dreading being asked to take up the slack. Am I wrong to feel this way? I need some validation for feeling the way I do. Please!

[pootypootwell]

I appreciate everyone's opinion and I feel much stronger knowing that I'm not the only one who feels this way. I have other things in my life besides work and I've decided that I'm not working any extra hours. Period. If I start working a few hours I know it'll turn in to more and more so I'm not even going to start it.

This board is great! I'm so glad I found it.

Stephanie