• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sounds like good management. I’ve never worked in an IT shop that was run like that. Best I’ve ever seen was ‘free comp time’ if you had to pull an all-nighter or work on a weekend.

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      3 months ago

      I have always worked with critical production environments where things have to stay up. It is not sustainable with a skeleton crew. Eventually it leads to service degradation or instability which is far more expensive than adding redundancy. Something bites management in the ass once or twice and they get the message.

      EDIT: I forgot to mention that what management ultimately did was outsource the liability to cloud services like Azure and AWS.

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        3 months ago

        have always worked with critical production environments where things have to stay up.

        Me too, they just expected us to work 100 hours a week when something broke.

        I’m 25 years into my career now and know enough these days to say “no” when they ask for unreasonable things like that. It can sit broken for all I care.

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          3 months ago

          I am sorry my man. I am pushing 30 years on my career so I feel your pain. That’s bad management and basically our bread and butter these days. They paint themselves into a corner and then pray they can summon an elder god to save their hide.

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            3 months ago

            It’s all good. It was only really that bad at one job, a long time ago. Now I am the one counseling my teammates for work life balance and not to let themselves be taken advantage of by the company!