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Scheduled maintenance during business hours?

• throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  I've seen it a lot with government. Usually happens because the sum of contracts signed with the unions over the years results in them not being able to ask employees to work substantially outside normal business hours in the capacity required to perform the maintenance. Since government has a monopoly on the service upper management doesn't worry about losing customers and pissing everyone off with daytime maintenance. So even if all the line level bureaucrats and their direct managers would rather the service be up and don't mine staying late one day to do it it may still get done during business hours because sucking it up is less of a pain than burning political capital trying to get an exception. Sure the people who actually work on the service want the thing they're responsible for to be up but it's just not worth the fight a lot of the time. It's not always maintenance that this happens to. I once worked at a facility that couldn't be snow-plowed overnight because they couldn't ask maintenance to work late/early and they couldn't hire a 3rd party to do it because that violated the specific language in the contract of the government employees union that the maintenance dept belonged to.
• Meph504 6y ago
  8pm to midnight is business hours ?