Remember hearing from one of my dad’s friends about being a Shabbos Goy in Philadelphia as a kid – the non-Jew a sabbath-keeping Jewish community takes on as an aide for doing the things they’re ritually prohibited from, only they couldn’t directly ask him to do things either, so there’d be some guy on his doorstop at 1AM like “BOY, it would be great if someone turned off the g-ddamn alarm clock my toddler set”