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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by umanwizard on Sunday September 08, 2024 @02:59PM (#41482326)
> it does seem that most tech jobs expect you to be available after hours for calls and extend that to vacation by default

Not any tech job I’ve ever had, except very occasionally after hours if unavoidable due to working with people in Asia, and planned well in advance. Never during vacation, that would be crazy.

But there have probably been people on my same teams who thought it was expected, due to them being workaholics or just bad at sticking to boundaries.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by giantg2 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @05:21PM (#41483319)
You have a separate team for on-call? Never need to do off-hours elevations? That sounds wild.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by umanwizard on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:44PM (#41483875)
Obviously on-call is an exception. That would fall under “rare and planned in advance”.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by ghaff on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:35AM (#41489574)
Except for my very first job when I was running shipyard jobs, no one has ever expected that they'd be able to reach me off-hours though they may have left messages of various types.
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