Nathan runs a 24/7 operation across time zones and is expected to respond to messages within minutes during his 12-hour shifts. He says the heightened pace has become normalized as AI infrastructure scales up.

Just quit, Jesus.

The job market isn’t so hard that you have to accept this 996 shit

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The job market isn’t so hard that you have to accept this 996 shit

If you haven't had to look for an IT-related job in the last two years, you're in for a rude awakening.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are some circumstances where you'd be better off delivering pizzas. (As someone else already said, though, this guy is probably management and being very well-compensated for his on-call time.)

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Engineering and it professionals are exempt from a bunch of things, specifically hours of work and overtime pay laws in ontario (This has the definition of it professionals and what is exempted, engineering is on the page as well.

I know people who've worked hundreds of unpaid, uncompensated overtime in a few months to make up for poor management (under resourcing, not enforcing scope, support etc.). It's frankly a failure and should be treated as such, but some people perpetuate toxic work culture and don't even see that when it comes to review time.

Tech is also full of title inflation, so many people get a management title because they're technically competent, probably partly as well because management also has their own exemptions but that's only supposed to apply to managerial tasks.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Key word for me here is “runs” — he’s management, and likely being paid handsomely to be on call for 12 hours at a time.

This isn’t someone being paid a base wage to work a full 12 hour shift with no gaps but a lunch break and two coffee breaks.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope investing in even more USA tech is not the definition of Canada building big again. Who are all of these white collar workers who need this help? Let's start small and get "X" off of the federal government website. There are a million ways to establish communication with the citizenry, let's not use the one supported by Elon Musk.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

While I agree in principle with removing X, it's also important to communicate with people where they actually are.