A huge percentage of you are developers, and off-hours coverage and email-checking expectations vary. But as a DevOps/SA/SRE/etc. I have spent my entire bloody

A huge percentage of you are developers, and off-hours coverage and email-checking expectations vary. But as a DevOps/SA/SRE/etc. I have spent my entire bloody career (almost 15 years at this point) suffering on-call and trying to run from it. Note, I don't mind on-call as much if I get paid overtime. But no one does, not in the US. Thus I applaud mechanisms to dissuade workers from accepting that expectation from companies, that they own you since you're salaried. Guess what happens with opt-in, your coworkers (or you) experience a compulsion to work out of fear of bonus or job loss, and the protection doesn't exist anymore. I decided to stop waiting for capitalism to throw me a bone. In fact, in New York, it only seems to be getting worse: the entitlement that companies feel to control your unpaid life is unprecedented thanks to PagerDuty, phones and so forth. Hence I'm a consultant. I'll do off-hours, no problem, but both of us know what we're getting into, the company and I, thanks to contract wording. It's more honest that way.