Comment on No, you don't escape this one Microsoft!

• fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Of course it is. I’m salaried and I’m very much forbidden to work at night without a specific additional contract. So my salaried ass just can say “no” to any requests to look at stuff at 2 am in the morning without any repercussions. If they want me to do that, that has to be negotiated and has to be paid separately.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m salaried and I’m very much forbidden to work at night without a specific additional contract.

    This is true of less than 10 countries out of the 195 in the world. Again, this is in no way specific to the US.

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    • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not debating that this is not the case in other parts of the world (10 of 195 sounds also a bit arbitrary though. Would love to see some kind of data about that, but I guess it’s kind of a very specific question). Could have skipped the first sentence of my original post maybe.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    that sounds very specific to your country. the majority of salaried positions in the world have little to no regulation.

    your position is enviable, and I feel like you just wanted to humble brag about it.

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    • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not really specific. Quite some counties have regulations and protections for their workers. I want to point out that the “default” option shouldn’t be displayed as the norm, even if it is common, because it is the worst possible option. It normalises a situation which shouldn’t be normal (and can be fought).

      There is no way to point out the differences without making an example. In this case I was able to use my own situation as an example, in other cases where I’m not in a so lucky situation, I would have used a more general one.

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