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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by liberte82 on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:35PM (#14641325)
As a manager in IT I have to have my phone on 24x7 for escalations and I hate it. On the occurrences that I take a real vacation and can turn my phone off, something in my head flips and I can truly forget about it. When it is on, there is something subconscious that will not quite let go and I can feel it.

I feel I would benefit greatly from being able to truly turn my phone off one day a week.

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by icebraining on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:03AM (#14643043)
Are you really the only person it can be escalated to? What happens if you're sick, or your phone breaks, or whatever?
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by liberte82 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:23AM (#14643161)
Would go up to the senior manager, or whoever else my team can get ahold of. During vacations I have another manager cover for me. There's always options, but it's expected that I be first point of contact.
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by coldpie on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:08AM (#14644997)
I hope you get compensated well for this. I would not put up with those conditions.
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:01AM (#14644162)
In all seriousness, find some way out of this.

The stress may well be cumulative, and it's insidious.

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