I’m new here, and that’s the impression I’m getting. But is that even legal?
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I guess you didn't get the memo that USAA HQ isn't located in Hydrabad. Work yourself to death if you want. Others of us know there is much more to life than work.
Toodles!
When I was an hourly employee I did OT on the weekends for the extra pay.
@e7 so fuuuuck this guy
I worked weekends for the extra pay and days off during the week. Same with a large number of my coworkers. It was not required but the advantages are there.
Salaried? Exempted? Shut up and work as required for releases.
Want hourly and paid for weekends, go work at Wendy’s
Are you referring to people who are scheduled to work weekends like MSRs and security guards? If so, then yes, it's required to work weekends.
Or are you referring to teams/areas that are so swamped with work that they need to work weekends to keep up? If so, that does happen, but in my experience that's the exception and not the norm.
If your area is consistently needing to work on the weekend to keep up, that's a failure of your direct management chain, full stop. If that's the case, there's either a) a staffing shortage, b) poor training, c) unrealistic expectations, or d) some combination of the above.
Some areas have seasonal work surges (think HR during tax time or open enrollment) that may require some long or atypical hours periodically, but working weekends to keep your heads above water should not be happening regularly.
I've only ever worked on the weekends when I was on call in IT and got called to help with an outage, but those are mostly isolated incidents, not regular occurrences.
Working nights and weekends in IT used to be very common because making changes during business hours could disrupt operations. Friday night deployments at 10pm used to the norm. Many areas in IT have established processes so that they don't have to make changes at night or on the weekends anymore, but it still happens. Is it annoying to have to log in at night or on the weekends? Yes, but IT engineers are among the highest paid individual contributors in the company, so you take the good with the bad.
As far as legality, what would be illegal about it? You're either hourly and you'll get paid for that time, or you're salary and you're exempt anyway.