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1001 points genericlemon24 | 2 comments | 06 Sep 25 13:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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stavros ◴[06 Sep 25 14:18 UTC] No.45149464[source]▶
I don't understand this expectation that employees work more, and stigma if you go home on time, yet we don't have a corresponding stigma for when the amount of money that reaches my account is "only" what we agreed my salary would be.
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1. reaperducer ◴[06 Sep 25 15:01 UTC] No.45149867[source]▶
I don't understand this expectation that employees work more, and stigma if you go home on time, yet we don't have a corresponding stigma for when the amount of money that reaches my account is "only" what we agreed my salary would be.

Since I'm (mostly) work-from-home, my wifi router is configured to firewall my work devices outside of working hours.

This is frustrating for the IT department because it likes to push software updates overnight, but tough noogies.

The company pays for 30% of my internet connection, so it only gets to use my internet connection 30% of the day.

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2. DamonHD ◴[06 Sep 25 15:08 UTC] No.45149948[source]▶
I had a huge row with my prospective US investment banking client manager because we had a conversation that went something like "we'll pay you for 8 hours but we expect you to work 10" (or 12). I said, why lie immdiately in our contract? We could try adjusting the expected hours or the hourly rate or both...

Anyhow I got to be paid for the hours that I actually did for well over a decade on off IIRC, and survived most of the purges of consultants/contractors there over the years, so demanding honesty from management was apparently survivable even if unusual!