Call me a cynic if you wish but by accepting overtime and the principle of overtime working are you not just guaranting that the management get their bonuses for "acheiving their targets", whatever that might be. I do not wish to state the obvious but also by accepting overtime as a principle are you not giving management a stick to beat you with when they try and introduce additional duties as a matter of course as your main defence of fatigue cannot be defended if you are doing overtime. I agree that it should be for a finate time and not indefinately, or we will all be truly sorry!.