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> This happens everywhere. It doesn't happen everywhere. I work for Pivotal. In my first month I took a train from NYC to Philadelphia to take a weekend cours
by jacques_chester 10y ago
> This happens everywhere.
It doesn't happen everywhere.
I work for Pivotal. In my first month I took a train from NYC to Philadelphia to take a weekend course I was interested in. I left the office at 6pm sharp, when we close. At 7pm the train pulled out of the station. I was bored, so I opened my laptop and logged into my work email.
I bounced a few emails back and forth with client devs, who will still in their office. Then at 8pm I closed my laptop and continued merrily on my way.
On the following Monday I was told, in no uncertain terms, to never work after hours again.
The latest I've worked in the office is 6.30pm. Because I thought I'd broken our public cloud. By 6.15pm I had multiple people wandering up and asking why I was still working.
We just now introduced pager duty for teams with operational dependencies. And the policy is: if you have a reason not to answer, then don't.
I am constantly amazed at what people will put up with. Really amazed.