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Have we not been living through the same pandemic? Nobody in the US has a reliable internet connection, services are controlled by third parties and randomly black out, infrastructure is overloaded, meetings are insecure, people step away from their keyboards and are unreachable, there are screaming kids in the background, etc.? I would happily board a plane for work travel right now, this is like living in a parody of my previous job.

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I suppose my experience has been different! Everyone at work is expected to respond to any e-mail in 15 minutes at most (1 hour on weekends), I have no kids and honestly haven't seen a single one in zoom calls (I hear this one person's dogs barking a lot if they're in the meeting, though), calls are airtight and password protected, and most of my contacts have pretty good internet

Wow, do you get paid for being on call during the weekends?

I get paid enough to not complain about it... part of the job description, I suppose

I’m sorry to say so, but I find these kind of conditions discriminating to those who have a family.

Lots of us have families. It's a trade-off, not discrimination. There are other jobs out there that don't require the same degree of availability. We get paid like doctors, so we're on call like doctors

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