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Nealithi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:52 pm
I feel I lost my last job over the lack of that means of communication. Before that the question was do you have a home phone number and you were not worth the time without one.
Employers seem increasingly to expect employees to be on 24-hour call. And because so many people have smartphones that they carry with them at all times, they can get away with demanding that.
My last employer couldn't cope with the concept of voice mail and insisted that the phone number I had provided him with (that he was at that exact moment texting me with) didn't work.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows." -- George Orwell, 1984
Nealithi wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:52 pm
I feel I lost my last job over the lack of that means of communication. Before that the question was do you have a home phone number and you were not worth the time without one.
Employers seem increasingly to expect employees to be on 24-hour call. And because so many people have smartphones that they carry with them at all times, they can get away with demanding that.
My last employer couldn't cope with the concept of voice mail and insisted that the phone number I had provided him with (that he was at that exact moment texting me with) didn't work.
My last job almost demands it, but if you don't answer the phone call it is not the end of the world. Texting though is simple to respond back to, though even then no one expects you to respond back at 10pm on any given night.
Though that job was operating 24/7 up and down the East Coast. This is before they even expanded west. By nature of my job, I could be expecting for example going to Boston the next day but instead having to go to Portland Maine instead. Or a job that requires only a few hours now is different where it may be a three day fix.
Yeah. Employers are expecting employees in entry-level service positions to be on 24-hour call. And they're not making it an explicit condition of employment, they're simply taking it for granted.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows." -- George Orwell, 1984
