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> After waking up twice during the night I decided to mute my phone completly from 10pm to 7am. Have you considered mentioning this to your colleagues, boss or
by krzrak 8y ago
> After waking up twice during the night I decided to mute my phone completly from 10pm to 7am.
Have you considered mentioning this to your colleagues, boss or anyone telling you it's your turn? If not - it's really not cool towards your colleagues, boss and organization in general.
- apercu 8y agoI see where you are coming from, but unless it was something I specifically agreed to in my employment contract I wouldn't be "on call" during normal sleeping hours, either. (I was on call every 3rd week back in my biomed days but I was explicitly compensated above my normal pay for this)
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoMe too, in the same field surprisingly enough! Although in our case, it was more like being on call for a week every 6-8 weeks.
- patatino 8y agoI told everyone, yes. I don't mind working extra hours to meet a goal, or come in on the weekend sometimes to finish something, I did that many times. But If you want me to wake up in the middle of the night you either be: a) my wife b) my kids c) willing to pay me
- toomuchtodo 8y agoIt is unfortunate when emotional manipulation is attempted to support wage theft and employee abuse.
- drb91 8y agoIt’s up to the employer to make expectations clear.
- Verdex_3 8y agoYou are right. It isn't cool. But I assert that the not cool party is the employer who sprung an on call job requirement without any warning. Additionally, if this job duty was actually important, then the employer would actually react with some criticism when they discovered that an employee was not performing this duty adequately. The fact that the employer isn't upset about having the on call employee ignoring messages means that it isn't important. Making employees being on call when the employer doesn't actually care about anyone being on call is also not cool.