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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by IndianAstronaut on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:09PM (#13304029)
I just took 4 days off work. I got a text from my boss saying some of our ETL jobs failed and I had to take a look at them.
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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by d4adb33f on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:34PM (#13304245)
That's some serious WTF, unless you were the only person in the company able to do that and it was an extinction event for the company if nobody dealt with it.
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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by forgetsusername on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:43PM (#13304799)
>unless you were the only person in the company able...

As someone who is also in a position like the OP, it's always "life or death".

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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by d4adb33f on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:11PM (#13304992)
Makes me think of the Foo Fighters song.

Wouldn't the rational thing be to turn off your phone when you take a vacation or even leave it at the office?

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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by dvtv75 on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:01PM (#13305535)
Why should an employee change their lifestyle while on vacation because their employer has no sense of fair and reasonable boundaries?
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Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy... by d4adb33f on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:25AM (#13307158)
Why indeed? Given the pathological situation, I would however take steps to protect my free time, if changing jobs was not an option.
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