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I’m just one of countless victims of the launch of the cell phone in North American IT. This shit kills. Figurative and literally.
24 hour reachability is 24 hour work. Shit accumulates and all of a sudden you haven’t actually relaxed in 20 years and you get phantom phone vibrations.
Funny enough I wear a pager for 1/4 of my life now. But it’s totally fine because there’s on then off. Work days and not work days. Day and night. Work and life.
European cell phone adoption was about on par with the US. I don't think the technology is completely to blame here.
Cell phones and wall street yuppies became a thing at relatively the same time, yuppy culture really threw work life balance out the window and changed US working culture. There was no European equivalent to the wall street yuppy.
Oh we've had grind culture for a long time. It just didn't apply to finance yet.
Oh yeah we've got them. They're called "young managers".
I went on a business trip a couple weeks ago with 3 of them. Those mfers were working on the planes and in the airports, went straight to the remote office when we landed, worked until 7pm, and started their next day at 7:30am. The grind is real.
I'm a senior software developer. If I can't fit everything I need to do in a regular work day, I either suck at my job or the job is managed by idiots.
Yeah, but I'm browsing Lemmy, not checking if I have received an email from work.
I was on call 24/7 for years. It's been a long time since I had to deal with that (with a slide into a related career rather than changing careers) but I will never forget how terrible it was. I wasted what should have been my best years on that shit.
Now there's only one person at work who has my number. He doesn't call except for the one time I forgot to put my day off on the calendar. My work apps are paused at 5pm and all weekend. I only get alerts on my computer. However, I still twitch sometimes when my phone goes off after hours because it was a learned and deeply reinforced response for so many years.
I work as an electrician on a construction site, and one of the greatest perks of the job is that you leave it there. It's not like you can work from home in the first place, and we don't really have shifts. Everybody comes in at the same time and leaves at the same time, so you don't have to bother with covering extra shifts.
That isn't to say it's a dream job of course, the perks are great, but the work itself will probably bite me in the ass later with health issues...
PPE buddy - personally protect yourself
Yup, worked enterprise IT for a global call center, and I was expected to answer my phone at a moments notice. Even if I was in bed with my wife, I was expected to stop and answer. All while being paid 50% below market. Since the overseas IT teams were worthless, getting called at 2am was common.
Were you paid properly for overtime?
Zero. It was salaried.
I'm salaried, but get paid per hour every time I'm on call.
In every country it's a salary except america. And I guess you wasn't.