Comment on Here goes another week of making money for the worst of us.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Today I was coming off a lovely 2 week vacation (my first break for more than a week in several years) but on Friday I got a Monday morning meeting invite set for 30 minutes before I usually start for the day. It was just a little taste of work crap to make sure the office was on my mind all weekend.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The ideal strategy is to not look at your work emails outside work time.
You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don’t know it exists.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I have a minimum amount of availability I have to maintain because servers and network hardware crashes don’t care about holidays.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 days ago
That’s what oncall rotations are for. If you’re not oncall, don’t be available outside your regular working hours
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
When servers go down everyone is on call. Both of us.
neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This is how my job is. If something goes horribly wrong after hours we get a text, but if I’m not at home doing nothing already then it has to wait and I’ll get to it when I can, and that’s expected.
In exchange we get to sort of do what we want and leave early whenever. Yesterday I took off at lunch and went sledding with the family. I only ever use my PTO for actual vacations or days where I’ll be completely unavailable.
I personally love it, I would love on call pay too but that freedom to take my son sledding on a snow day without having to lose pay is incredible. There’s only ever been 1 emergency issue in the past 2 years that I’ve had to hop on after hours to take care of.