I don’t know about getting tased, but getting tear gassed in the gas chamber is a standard part of basic training.

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/gas-chamber-surviving-basic-training.html

When I was in we had to requalify every year. You can actually build up a tolerance so its not that bad.

Buy the new SSD, load Windows 10, and don’t activate the license. Plex will run with no issues.

Overriding or adjusting payment isn’t an edge case. The article says the reason they refused was company policy. They had the option and said no.

I used to work overnights and that is exactly what happened. In fall you work an extra hour and get an hour of overtime. In spring your shift would be an hour shorter. The company I worked for still paid us that hour so we got paid for an hour we didn’t actually work which was nice.