Every remote job ever: "Please spend the next two weeks reading hundreds of pages of documentation and how-tos. If you for whatever implausible & completely unnatural reason will need to review them later, do so outside work hours."
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My experience has been the complete opposite. Not once have I been told or hinted to work outside of work hours.
That's pure avarice on your employer's part. Reading and writing documentation is an essential task for most tech-related jobs.
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My employer is not too bad.
Some of their lower level management, on the other hand, have slightly skewed perceptions of reality.
I'm forced to remind my wife about this quite often. Me, I'd log taking a shit as work if it happened during work hours. And I do.
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Well I've been blessed to work with good people 🙏
Re, time: I'd imagine most salaried tech employees hit far below their expected hours on avg.
As a contractor I try to track productive time as precisely as possible but yes short 🚹 breaks stay on the clock
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For me it depends entirely on whether the client is abusing labor laws or staying on the up and up.
If they're going to take away collective bargaining, job security, basic needs-maintenance (meals, toilet etc.), I'm not going to play nice.
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It's worth noting that most every in-person worker spends far less than their full shift *actually working*, though obviously this is heavily industry-defined.
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Yeah that was my intuition, too. I wonder what the actual industry average is for devs/designers, etc.
May try to find some #'s one of these days
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I'm paid well enough to take my job seriously, but I'm happy to prevaricate when I'm fed abusive terms with no means of recourse for a hundred cleverly-thought-out legal reasons. I'm not *stupid*.
If companies want their employees to behave respectfully and within the spirit (rather than the letter) of the law, they can damn well do it themselves.
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And, while my employer seems OK in this regard, it's not exactly rare that they fail to meet even that low bar and rely exclusively on the hollowness of the state & legal system where they've based their HQ.
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