I work for a tech company in Raleigh and on Friday we received orders to take our laptops home with us every day along with anything else we need to do our jobs. We are also required to monitor our email and text messages 24/7 for alerts from the C-level about office closures.
Once a closure decision is made, nobody will be allowed onto the campus for anything, PERIOD.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:16PM (#59812018)
Hmmm. They will be sending disappearing e-mails and text messages will they? Fascinating because I have configured my e-mail and phone to store the messages until I go look at them. In this way I do not need to "monitor my e-mail and text messages 24/7" as a quick 2-second glance once a day is quite sufficient. However, if whoever gave you the "orders" is willing to pay for 24/7 monitoring then that is a different matter. They are paying you for your continuous monitoring aren't they?
Interesting thing that is in Raleigh "they" can "order" you to do something and "pay" you to work 24/7. That is illegal in Canada. Here "they" can only request and "they" are limited by law in what "they" can request. And of course, the law also requires that you may decline what is requested.
I guess that is the primary difference between living in a Free and Democratic society (Canada) vs living in Fascist State ruled by Despots (the United States of America).
The Word from North Carolina (Score:0)
I work for a tech company in Raleigh and on Friday we received orders to take our laptops home with us every day along with anything else we need to do our jobs. We are also required to monitor our email and text messages 24/7 for alerts from the C-level about office closures.
Once a closure decision is made, nobody will be allowed onto the campus for anything, PERIOD.
Re:The Word from North Carolina (Score:0)
Hmmm. They will be sending disappearing e-mails and text messages will they? Fascinating because I have configured my e-mail and phone to store the messages until I go look at them. In this way I do not need to "monitor my e-mail and text messages 24/7" as a quick 2-second glance once a day is quite sufficient. However, if whoever gave you the "orders" is willing to pay for 24/7 monitoring then that is a different matter. They are paying you for your continuous monitoring aren't they?
Interesting thing that is in Raleigh "they" can "order" you to do something and "pay" you to work 24/7. That is illegal in Canada. Here "they" can only request and "they" are limited by law in what "they" can request. And of course, the law also requires that you may decline what is requested.
I guess that is the primary difference between living in a Free and Democratic society (Canada) vs living in Fascist State ruled by Despots (the United States of America).