Well a few days ago I was having a convo would a good friend of mine whos EK 777 Capt.
He's worked well over 100hrs in Aug, and to quote him "I was going to call sick for a couple of days, then I realised how much overtime money I would get! So i was like, yeah use me as much as you want!"
So just to add fuel to the fire there's definitely an element of remuneration making 'problems' go away.