Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
by cwkoss on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:58PM
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Employer expecting you to be available 24-7 on a 40 hr workweek contract sounds like the sort of thing I'd talk to an employment lawyer about: seems like they are not paying for 128 hours/wk of 'engaged to wait' time.
Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
by VRay on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:51PM
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Ah, they're posting on HackerNews.. He/she can just spend a few months grinding on those stupid coding challenge sites and then snag a cushy job at one of the tech megacorps. Or dig up the last "Who's Hiring" thread on this site and find a nice gig at a smaller company
Set up a PC at home, logged into slack that keeps the status as available.
They didn't say anything about actually responding to messages, right?
Alternatively I'm sure there is a law they are breaking, so let them know about it.
But more simply - any company that comes up with such a rule has got things backwards and doesn't understand how to manage people, and probably doesn't understand tech. They probably love emergencies where "the team comes together" and hate spending extra time on ensuring quality and paying down tech debt. Leaving becomes a sensible option. They are shortsighted and I am guessing they don't make a lot of profit. Is my tea reading right?