Re:Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
by vonmoltke on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:20PM
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Depends on the company and facility situation. I worked for several years in such an environment, but the facility was open 24/7. You could be paged at any time for critical issues, but of course would always have to come in to find out what it actually was. Not being able to bring work home just led to the expectation that you would spend more time in the office.
When he leaves work at 5pm he actually can't access his work email. Nobody can send him anything from work on an unsecured line.
When he leaves work at 5pm on a Friday, nobody can contact him about work related things until he is on site at 8am on Monday morning.
He's a senior level unix admin. That can't ever be paged. I'd say that's pretty okay.