@sogen put it pretty well below, but I'm not so familiar with arrested development. His typecast character in most roles though is one who's always draining his personal life in hopes that one day he'll become partner of the lawfirm or be chosen by the woman who only thinks of him as a friend, but usually ends up being passed over for someone else, and divorced in the process.
Though it's not perfectly analogous, and at-best a fanciful exaggeration, to me it exemplifies this hopeful idea of "if I try super hard at whatever I'm assigned—more than I'm asked—I'll eventually be rewarded", but it's not a calculated risk if you don't control the outcome of that stress and you're robbing yourself of your own time and energy, the company just accepts it. It might pay off, and it might be due to the merits of the work you've done, but the value you're adding should be very clear, and it should definitely end up in your pocket. There's no worse feeling that putting in those extra hours, stressing yourself off, and then arbitrarily being laid off when times are a bit tougher. Even if you're in a management position, or maybe especially so, you should be paid sufficiently for devoting time outside your regular hours to deal with the bullshit of that job, ideally in clearly defined terms.
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