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Don't want to pay be for being on call? Ok I won't be
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This arrangement operates on beautiful hypocrisy: management demands round-the-clock availability while treating after-hours compensation like an unnecessary luxury, then acts shocked when their underpaid wizard refuses to cast spells for free. The psychology becomes even more twisted when they exclude the new guy from paid on-call rotation while simultaneously expecting him to answer emergency calls anyway, because apparently expertise should flow freely while paychecks remain selective. Corporate logic dictates that if you can technically do the job, you should graciously volunteer your weekends to the greater good of quarterly profits, regardless of whether anyone bothered to include you in the financial benefits everyone else enjoys.
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When crisis struck and the firewall decided to have weekend mood swings, this network specialist discovered the exquisite pleasure of being genuinely unreachable. No phone number, no guilt trips, no emergency rescues while colleagues enjoyed paid vacation time. Monday morning arrived with delicious chaos: critical systems down, expensive consultants summoned, and suddenly his previously worthless expertise became priceless enough to warrant immediate promotion to paid on-call status. Sometimes the most effective negotiation tactic involves strategic disappearance, especially when your absence costs more than your presence ever did. Nothing clarifies corporate priorities quite like watching them pay weekend consulting rates to avoid paying regular on-call wages.
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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