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Since we're railing on corporate America...
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I'm in Europe, and work for an American company. After a few issues in production, they tried to implement an on-call requirement for employees to check the alerts during their out of work hours (5am to 10pm or something stupid like that). I just reminded them that my country has the "Right to disconnect" law, which protects us from having to work outside our required hours.
They changed it to volunteer basis. I refuse to volunteer (because my off time is my time).
Was there any extra compensation offered for the added duty?
There is no need for extra compensation. Our employees love the sense of pride and accomplishment when they volunteer to be on call off hours.
I know it should be obvious but had to read twice to realize there would be a "/s" at the end. Some employers or at least HR/PR teams honestly believe that every word you just mocked is the actual nature of employment, while those same managers pull all kinds of BS to pinch every penny they can and then leave before the ship sinks if the company doesn't turn into a monopoly zombie like EA.
(For those wondering how Electronic Arts is a "monopoly zombie", think about how long most companies that become like EA - when it comes to being greedy and stingy - actually last. A few years at best. Yet EA has 50 years under it's belt? That happened because they have/had a monopoly on official sports leagues, Maxis-created gameplay styles, the Star Wars IP (until Disney bought it), and the Mass Effect IP that they ruined the 3rd and onwards games of.
In short, don't feed the zombie. Don't buy Sports video games until the collapse of that genre kills the Madden and FIFA EA franchises, and buy games like NewCity, Urbek City Builder, Elysian Eclipse, Alterlife, or Cities Skylines if you liked Sim City/The Sims/Spore.
As for Mass Effect, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see much hope for that franchise's legacy. EA's execs probably think "oh, we made a 33% profit off of those first two loss leaders" before anything else when you mention it in any way to them, which just feels like a punch in the gut to the tune of "your choices never really mattered" that are currently popular plot twists for games.)