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This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

Giles C Silver badge

Switching off

I had a manager once call me on my personal phone about 6 times in an evening.

My phone was on silent as

1 it was my personal device

2 I wasn’t on call that week

3 I was watching a film.

When it is on silent only a few peoples number overrides it and it rings.

The reason for the call they were doing a cascade test….

When I did answer (about 3 hours after the calls) I got moaned at for not answering the phone. I pointed out that I didn’t for the reasons above and if they wanted me to answer anytime then it wasn’t going to happen.

I also said that once I leave the office then I don’t care what happens until the next morning.

I won’t put any corporate stuff on a personal phone, or any of my own computers. If they insist on that then they can take a jump.

Mind you as a contractor they can’t force it on me.

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