If OP and coworkers normally start at 8 and finish at 5 (9 hours of work), if you assume they ordinarily make $10/hr (for the sake of an example), they all made $90 for their work on Friday. If they came in at 8am on Saturday to be sent home at 12pm, then even at time and a half, they only made $60 for their work on Saturday

Completely legal, sure, but I wouldn’t want to drag my arse out of bed at 6am on Saturday to earn less than I do on a regular work day

Thanks for the response! Would you mind going a bit more in depth about that please? I could understand increasing the risk of overload if you were to daisychain power boards, as they add more power points to the circuit than it was designed for. But extension cords (at least in my experience) only have 2 ends - one with a single plug receptacle, and the other that plugs into a power point

Is it the actual connection between the two that adds more resistance to it? If it were the wiring, then wouldn’t that also pose a problem for longer extension cords?

In either case, what sort of resistance add are we talking about (feel free to pick random lengths of examples make it easier to explain)?