At AT&T we have strict rules for bargained for people and non-exempt managers. Anyone checking email or performing any other type of work via company electronic devices, including text messaging must report that as time worked and charge for it. Failure to do so is a violation of the code of business conduct and can lead to termination.
All over time must be approved by your supervisor. Working unauthorized over time is a violation of the code of business conduct and can lead to termination.
I get emails on my company phone at all hours, I am not supposed to even read them,(mostly I don’t). If somebody needs something done, a phone call and a positive contact is required. (Not by me, by the business process. Emails and text messages are for best effort communications only.
Personally, I send emails out when they are ready, my colleagues on the West Coast and Hawaii will receive my early morning messages at 6 am and earlier. I certainly am not expecting anyone to pop up and reply.
Conversely, the guys in Hawwaii finishing up late on Friday are not expecting responses from the team members in Atlanta when they finally get their updates out.
This isn’t to say I don’t get midnight phone calls, I do,many I have worked from midnight to dusk, but these are generally serious outages, not business as usual.
It seems to e that the beauty of email is the ability to time shift and respond in a convenient manner, after some thought has gone into it.
BofI is a place to go when you your other option is homelessness. The management is frightfully inadequate and the CEO sends inappropriate and demeaning, company wide emails at all hours of the night. Posted on Glassdoor.com July 22, 2015.
Below market pay, mediocre benefits, limited vacation time, poor leadership, no training, bizarre ranting emails sent from the CEO (including religious and political topics) . . . Posted on Glassdoor.com April 12, 2015.
I actually read through all the comments posted on Glassdoor. The positive ones are few and far between. The few positives are from executive level management. Several posters complained of nepotism. Several posters complained of bullying, intimidating corporate culture from CEO on down. Several posters complained of pay practices like firing just prior to vesting. They have no HR department. They provide no training. Turnover is around 40% . . . Etc. Etc.
Read for yourself and tell me what impression you get. This is not just a few “bad apples,” this is the majority of postings. You might say 50 posts are not representative, but I would argue that 50 employees (current and former) who took the trouble to post these sorts of comments tells a story, and it’s not a good one.
unlike phone calls, it leaves a written audit trail.
However, both email and phone calls are apparently routinely scrutinized, at least by software in the first instance.
For this reason, whenever I am communicating with respect to something I want to keep secret (e.g., my next heist, my upcoming denial-of-service attack on the local PetSmart store’s website, my plan to form an unaccredited university awarding degrees to applicants who pay the required fees and then self-certify that they know the relevant material, etc.) , I do it in person, either in a crowded, noisy public place or in my spring house down by the creek.
For this reason, whenever I am communicating with respect to something I want to keep secret (e.g., my next heist, my upcoming denial-of-service attack on the local PetSmart store’s website, my plan to form an unaccredited university awarding degrees to applicants who pay the required fees and then self-certify that they know the relevant material, etc.) , I do it in person, either in a crowded, noisy public place or in my spring house down by the creek.
Just to be doubly safe you could post it onto a noisy place like a public bulletin board with mass membership from an internet connection in your spring house by the creek.
Good job.
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