If you are in an industry where an emergency at 2 am cannot wait until 0900 (or whenever shift starts in the morning), fucking pay a swing shift to be there. Or fairly compensate your employees for calls off the clock. Either way, stop expecting free labor from your employees. And if your business can't afford to exist without fairly compensating those who work for it, then your business should not exist.

Why does anyone think this guy is some kind of business expert? Why is he propped up by CNBC all the time (and apparently FOX) as if his opinions are at all relevant?

He got rich by using VC money to prop up a real dog of a software company, cooked the books, then sold it to Mattel in what is regarded as one of the worst business deals of all time

Now he makes all his money like Trump did, licensing his brand to sad companies and getting appearence fees. He sells mutual funds with his name on them even though he's not licensed, because he has nothing to do with them. He ran for Conservative party leadership, then dropped out because he couldn't be bothered to (or is incapable of) learning French, even though he's from Montreal.

Business people with real wealth don't spend all their time on TV or sell Cameo videos from a fake Shark Tank set, willing to endorse any shady business for a few thousand dollars.

Just ignore this guy, he's the worst.

If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.

Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?

Who dreams this up?

Nobody. Nobody dreamt it up. They are just remembering the hard reality of the early 90's and the before times.

You know, before everyone was connected and online 24/7/365. Before "online" meant anything.

When you left your 9-5 job, drove home listening to the radio, because you didn't have anything else to listen to, and got home to dinner on the table because you didn't need your spouse to work for a living to make ends meet, in your home that you were able to purchase, and food that wasn't largely artificial.

The phone would ring during dinner, and it would just keep ringing, because you're spending time eating with your family. There was no answering machine, so it would just ring and ring.

And if nobody ever answered it, they couldn't tell you to get back to the office because some emergency happened.

Maybe you went to the park, maybe you were out to dinner with the Mrs... Maybe you just didn't care enough to pick up the phone. Anything could have happened.

Unlike today, where we're bombarded by marketing and notifications constantly. All of which are demanding that you address them ASAP. Everything is an emergency, so put down your "three ingredients away from plastic" dinner, and pick up your master, and obey.

I am all out of bubble gum.

If O'Leary hates it, you know it's a good thing

Guy who is the reason this rule is needed is upset about the rule dealing with some of his bullshit

If it's important enough that it can't wait until tomorrow, it's important enough to pay someone for.

This has all you need to know about who he is as a person and what his childhood must have been like.

It’s called being on call. It requires an hourly wage for the duration. That said, call pay is usually garbage (like $4/hr). I would posit that call pay should be minimum wage, or more.

This is no different that being required to pay out a lunch break if and when you’re required to remain available during said lunch break, can’t leave campus, or have to carry a live walkie/radio while “on break”. Federal definition of a lunch break defines it as “uninterrupted”.

My on call works with garbage pay but if I’m called in it’s automatically OT, even if that’s my one shift that week. Ofc, I’m Union. Even so, the stand at the starting line, available pay, should be at least minimum wage.

Fucken power dial this Goober's number. Watch how quick he flips his shit.

Eat shit bud you are nothing outside of work. Fuck you.

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People with lives to live outside of what their employers have them doing?

Email me. If I deem it an emergency, I might answer. Keep in mind, my bar for emergencies is much higher than yours ever will be (unless physical harm to a human may occur, it's not an emergency). When I go to bed, my phone goes to bed (aeroplane mode).

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I can't imagine this old piece of shit slamming anything without breaking a bone. Why journalists insist on this word for headlines when there are so many better alternatives is beyond me.

"What crazy world do we live in where I can't eat at closed restaurants or live in houses I don't own or pay for? What's next electricians only fix my breakerbox when I pay them? What is this world coming too!?"

Honestly, I don't get this.

can't dream it if you wake me up in the middle of the night

F U Pay Me https://youtu.be/0ZpFlCuBl-o