Gregory's Server
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  @nixCraft I just leave my phone in the car. I have a rubbishy phone connection anyway, out in the sticks. It all goes to voicemail and I respond when I feel like it or if I feel like it. @nixCraft π«‘ to the worker... ~I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future.~  @lewiscowles1986 @nixCraft in good companies, on-call readiness is regulated in the contract and paid accordingly. But it's not that often, unfortunately.  @lewiscowles1986 @nixCraft Mmm... that depends on the job. A salaried employee with a job description that includes on-call can be expected to do some work from time to time outside of normal business hours. ...unless you're forbidden to work from home, of course. :-P  Nah fam. Companies just arbitrarily lay folks off. No such thing as a career at one place. Trading your way up is the only non-pure-luck path.  @failedLyndonLaRouchite @nixCraft Also called a "LEM", pronounced "lim." A Life Enhancing Move.  @nixCraft I had a similar experience last year. difficult to do when you are allowed to wfh, so I took an old phone and installed all the work bloat on it and just keep it on the desk like the old IP phones. this year they want hour by hour time tracking. now it's even better, I don't even feel bad for ignoring calls after my 8. I WAS TOLD THE SAME THING WORKING IT AND I SUPPORTED THE SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND WAS TOLD STRICTLY NO OVERTIME. WHEN I MENTIONED I WOULD LEAVE WHEN MY SHIFT WAS OVER NO MATTER WHAT. THEY CHANGED THAT RULE!  I did exactly that before. $job: "We're enforcing MDM to use Slack on phones" Everyone: "Ok, when do our company phones arrive?" $job: "Yeah, we didn't really plan to do that at all" Everyone: *uninstalls Slack* That weekend, large outage. I had my laptop dock/hub break, and applied for a replacement, and was denied because supposedly that's not approved for work-from-home employees. I told my employer that I wouldn't use my external monitors or mouse because they didn't provide methods to use those with my USB-C only laptop. They decided that giving me a replacement dock/hub was in their best interest. Even better was they suggested I buy my own (using my money) and expense it after the fact. Told them fat chance because it wasn't approved and I did not want to risk/front my money for the company. I've done the same thing with a mobile phone number. Works great. The company tries to pass off bullshit company costs to you, but they know $150 for a dock, or $60 a month for mobile service is huge payback on your productivity. They'll pay if they really want you to have something.  @nixCraft funnily enough i worked for a company that was entirely remote but we were explicitly banned from working off the clock to comply with labor regulations this meant if someone called in sick, they weren't tasked with finding a replacement. in fact, no one was. because we didn't call people when they weren't working. we just overstaffed a touch and if it ended up being a bit too much overstaffed we offered voluntary undertime and usually someone would be happy to take it |
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