Ellen is a non-exempt employee who works in Bigtown for The Acme Corporation. She is assigned to hand-out brochures at TAC's booth at a tradeshow at a hotel in Salestown on Monday. She will stay in the same hotel where the show will be held. Her instructions are that she has to be at the booth location beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, when she will help set up the booth.

She arrives at the Salestown hotel on Sunday night at 8:45 p.m. She immediately goes to dinner until 10:15 p.m. She then returns to her hotel room, reads a novel for awhile, and goes to sleep.