Hate can do attitude

Aur nahi toh kya....take a stand for yourself even if all your teammates might be replying just for licking your boss's boots

I’ve mentioned my view on this in last para. Problem is that stakeholders are also humans so they build their expectations based off that one person representing the whole team. Now that one person will not have all the answers everytime so if u don’t keep up when answer is expected from u then u are the odd one out. Bcoz many would naturally give in to follow the same behaviour. Again, it’s all about setting boundaries which should start from top down.

Respect 🫡 this is how it should be done.

For slack messages my manager adds [Not Urgent] at the start of the text if he sends something outside working hours

If u cannot raise expectation or bar without communicating at odd hours then you’ve other set of problems. I am not against doing it when it’s must and counter party is aware u r going out of ur way. And those who do it for their own success, no problem with them too as long as they ensure it does not become the norm or sets the same expectation from others. Bcoz with this logic u’ll reward those with less life outside work (hence the more availability) the most and does that make sense ? Maybe it does to corporate but is corporate ur friend? Anyway, I am not imposing my thought process on anyone… It’s just a rant. Also I think u took my can-do as someone who will work on things outside his job role or work beyond work hours. No, those ppl can get more success for all I care. My problem is with the kind of communication which in turn leads to a higher standard of availability for everyone.

I think you're confusing two things here - the perspective of the capitalist / corporate system vs. your individual perspective as a worker. Of course, the capitalist and corporate system is not your friend, but your employer, and it's designed to extract the maximum effort and time from you, to the owner's / shareholder's benefit. From your worker's perspective, it is not good to communicate outside the work hours for your work-life balance. However, from the perspective of your employer, the employee's dedication to the corporate system and a can-do attitude, are beneficial, and will reward it. Because it shows the dedication of the employee to sacrifice their own personal life interests in favor of the interests of the owners / shareholders. And yes, a can-do attitude and dedication includes everything, including quick work-related communication during personal hours. And some people will always strive extra to impress the corporate system, for those extra rewards, including growth in the hierarchy. You, from your worker's perspective, might resent it, but the corporate system will reward such behavior, whether you like it or not, over others who do not have the can-do attitude to show such dedication. This is the way the system is designed, and yes, it does raise expectations for everyone, because it's intended to do that to make everyone sacrifice more and work harder the benefit of corporate. And yes, it's designed to reward those people more who have lesser personal life outside, because they're dedicating their life to their employers. And you ranting and resenting it will not do anything. The best you can hope to achieve in this system, is to start your own company someday, and have your employees communicate in their personal time for your benefit, while you sleep. And then reward such dedicated employees with growth and promotions, for working in their personal time towards increasing your wealth😄

Ya man they need to invent new words. Latest I heard is quiet vacationing. https://x.com/amandamgoetz/status/1793971346990366805

But millennials are quiet vacationing na

😂 some ppl survive only through politics in workplace

True, have seen many cases as well. Ass licking to bhut common h jo log kaam nhi kr skte vo chatne me lage rhte h !

Man looks like u replied based on some prejudice u hold urself. Nowhere I am saying I want more success while maintaining good wlb as compared to someone who has sold their soul to corporate. It is also dumb to assume everyone defines success as more fame/money/power only. And I really don’t get ppl offended by my rant bcoz do u realize u r speaking in favour of being available to respond at any point of time ? And ok maybe u like that or feel it’ll help u climb the ladder… do it but do not hold it against those who cannot keep up and manage stakeholder expectation well enuf such that those who cannot do the same, but are effective workers, do not come under bad light for it.

Not always, for me getting work done on time is priority, promotion is just complimentary to that, in simple words do good work and get promoted, FYI people would not get promoted merely for working or replying to mails over weekends, this can always mean that person is slow and is not able to complete tasks on time and hence needs to compensate on weekends.