Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by pessimizer on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:29PM (#26228275)

My read is that it's specific to the case of being a programmer/sysadmin. Even if you're not on call, it's usually pretty unimaginable to be completely uncontactable if something breaks.

So privileged might literally mean "not having the most common job held by the people reading this."

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by bussierem on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:10PM (#26228995)

I think that needs to be specified even further, because although this seems to surprise many people on this site, the vast majority of programming jobs do not require you to be "constantly contactable if something breaks". I have been a dev for almost 10 years now and never had a job that required anything to this level of "ability to be contacted", and neither have none of the people in my social circles. I genuinely feel bad for the people who end up stuck in jobs where this is the case, and in that way perhaps I would be more privileged than the GP

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by dkdk8283 on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:40PM (#26230277)

Every job I’ve had came with reachability expectations

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by brewdad on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:15PM (#26230741)

Hopefully not 24/7/365. I think that's what OP was getting at. At the very least, weekend coverage should be passed around various co-workers.

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