It escalates to your manager, then skip, and upwards.
They pre-empted this when we complained, and went straight to the director to say that the VP wants their org to complete something for a demo on Monday (they were told Friday). Since we were downstream, their feature would break our service contact, and would mean the E2E test wouldn’t work, so our director asked kindly for us to help where we can and to prioritise the main work on Monday. By that time your weekend is already ruined, but under that manager in particular they’ve been working every weekend for about a year…
Eh, that part is known, but lately there are teams that have “officially” opened weekends as fair game. My org recently sent out an email stating that weekends would count as in-office days to entice people to work at the office to bump their RTO figures up.
I hate to break it to you, but plenty of Amazon employees work weekends too, especially when big launch dates are coming up.
Source: Work in an org at Amazon where people have paged us regarding feature work on the weekend.
Let the page go unanswered?
It escalates to your manager, then skip, and upwards.
They pre-empted this when we complained, and went straight to the director to say that the VP wants their org to complete something for a demo on Monday (they were told Friday). Since we were downstream, their feature would break our service contact, and would mean the E2E test wouldn’t work, so our director asked kindly for us to help where we can and to prioritise the main work on Monday. By that time your weekend is already ruined, but under that manager in particular they’ve been working every weekend for about a year…
Yikes. Is the pay good at least?
It is, but given that I’m about to pay £20k a year to travel to the office, less so.
That’s the joke. We know Amazon is known for soul crushing long hours and weekends.
Eh, that part is known, but lately there are teams that have “officially” opened weekends as fair game. My org recently sent out an email stating that weekends would count as in-office days to entice people to work at the office to bump their RTO figures up.