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I haven't done a single hour of overtime in a decade, before moving to a different career. It's definitely not normal in Germany. However it's fairly common am
by nicbou 4y ago
I haven't done a single hour of overtime in a decade, before moving to a different career. It's definitely not normal in Germany.
However it's fairly common among my peers back in Canada. I guess it comes down to local work culture, and who you work for.
Truth be told, I'd refuse to work overtime, and gladly risk being fired for it. Perhaps they can find and train a replacement fast enough to make up for the loss.
If a team can't meet deadlines within office hours, management should pay the price, not employees. Don't reward incompetence with Stakhanovist feats.
- galleywest200 4y agoUnfortunately emergencies can happen. When the developers introduce some bug, that QA missed, it is us operations people who have to wake up to fix it in the middle of the night. My job is tangentially related to e911 and that can be real-life problematic, so I get up to ensure safety.
- shoo 4y ago> it is us operations people who have to wake up to fix it in the middle of the night I have a tremendous amount of respect for operations & anyone else working at the "pointy end" of service delivery. Please make sure you are negotiating and advocating hard for your own & your fellow operations colleagues interests and are getting compensated fairly for being willing to carry the pager. On call responsibilities if any, along with the corresponding conditions and compensation are things that should be negotiated and explicitly written up in contracts. Some companies attempt to push employees into providing free labor and doing production support for free. "You build it, you run it" is a fun slogan, but what sometimes happens in practice is that management want people to work both jobs but are only willing to pay for one of them.