On: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)

[IndianAstronaut]

I just took 4 days off work. I got a text from my boss saying some of our ETL jobs failed and I had to take a look at them.

[d4adb33f → IndianAstronaut]

That's some serious WTF, unless you were the only person in the company able to do that and it was an extinction event for the company if nobody dealt with it.

[forgetsusername → d4adb33f]

>unless you were the only person in the company able...

As someone who is also in a position like the OP, it's always "life or death".

[d4adb33f → forgetsusername]

Makes me think of the Foo Fighters song.

Wouldn't the rational thing be to turn off your phone when you take a vacation or even leave it at the office?

[dvtv75 → d4adb33f]

Why should an employee change their lifestyle while on vacation because their employer has no sense of fair and reasonable boundaries?

[d4adb33f → dvtv75]

Why indeed? Given the pathological situation, I would however take steps to protect my free time, if changing jobs was not an option.