Work Reform

More than once over the years I've told admin, "not interested", when they asked me about taking a Supervisor position.

Nope, I punch out and clear my mind about work. I guarantee that wouldn't be possible at the Supervisor level. I won't even work as a Field Training Officer. The little bump per hour isn't worth the hassle of doing evals and discussing each newbie with management.

None of these laws would be necessary (I would hope) with a proper safety net (universal healthcare, UBI, etc). A job does something shitty, you can afford to leave! When we support people we empower them to stand up for themselves.

At least, these are the things I think about as my "no one wants to work anymore" boss rants at me about how everything would be better if the government wasn't involved in capitalism.

I'd answer if my boss called outside of working hours. But only because I know he'd never ever do that if it wasn't really urgent. But I'm under absolutely no obligation to do any work related stuff when I'm not clocked in.

I'm working in a European branch of an American business with headquarters in SF. We have to provide on-call support for software services that we create. Engineers from the European office are paid for on-call duty shifts, however American engineers are not paid for the same job. I wonder whether this law will change things.

I thought they already had that during working hours. I swear sometimes while I'm working on the east coast hours, my west coast colleagues signs on at 12PM EST and signs off of 530EST and aren't around to answer my 6:30 EST pings. Meanwhile I'm waking early for EU client calls, and handling 9PM meetings with Asia offices. So it goes. I don't think we can have it both ways where you can be remote working from anywhere yet not be on the hook to work hours during the defined operational times. I'm not working 9 to 9EST, and take long breaks mid day if I have evening meetings, but there are operational realities of needing to talk to people to get work done and those times need to be defined.

This isn't already a right?

California trying to make life better for workers. I'm here for it.

Holy shit i really need this. Ever since my manager quit, my supervisor has basically decided to go total anarchy and do whatever she wants. Including adding us to the schedule without saying anything then deducting points for no-show, or blowing up our phones about said situation.