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I know people at big tech companies that work on client engineering, where this downtime has huge implications. Naturally, they’ve called a sev1, but instead of dedicating resources to fixing these issues the teams are basically bullied into working insane hours to manually patch while clients scream at them. One dude worked 36 hours straight because his manager outright told him “you can sleep when this is fixed”, as if he’s responsible for CloudStrike…

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Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That dude should not have put up with that.

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uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Sounds so illegal, that it makes labour authoririty happy

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- EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Is it illegal? I’m not American so I have no idea if there are laws in your country against on-call maximum hours.
  
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  - uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    It’s not about oncall, they are literally in the office
    
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    Not sure about America, but it is very illegal in Russia.
    
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MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That comment about sleep…that’s about where I tell them to go fuck themselves. I’ll find a new job, I’m not going to put up with bullshit like that.

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- Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  100% agree
  
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