My dh works in interactive TV. A few months ago he was offered extra responsibilities - and extra pay - in the form of a set number of hours of out-of-hours "support work". It involves him being responsible for all emergency calls/bugs/breakdowns to do with the sevices the company provides, overnight and sometimes at weekends. It's usually four week-days running or a full weekend in a month. I was reluctant to agree to it for quite a long time, but now our kids are older (nearly 4 and nearly 2, plus we really need to extra cash, we discussed it and I agreed to it. So far the support days/nights have been pretty active and have resulted in both of us getting very little sleep and both of us - especially him - being grumpy, tired and useless during the day after a night of support. It is worth it for the money, and I haven't complained.
However he has just MSNed me to say that he has volunteered for an extra day/night of support next month. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I am really annoyed that he didn't consult me beore he volunteered for it. If he works extra hours, then effectively I do too - it means me getting up when the "support phone" wakes the kids up, it means being housebound for the evening while he is on support, and sometimes he doesn't manage to get home from work if a support call comes through while he is still there, so it means me doing the evening/bedtime routine without him.
As I say, I don't object to any of that on the basis that I agreed to. I just feel that by volunteering for an extra day of it without consulting me he is treating me like an employee and not considering the fact that if he works extra hours, so do I.
Am I being unreasonable? Sorry for the rant. I know this is pretty trivial compared to what some people are going through. But it has really upset me.