When the crowd strikes
Always deploy on friday afternoon.
That’s what the work profile on your personal phone is for, so you can turn it off when you’re off the clock (or rather if you don’t get paid to be alert)
If I’m not being explicitly paid to be on call, I’m not ever even having notifications come through to my phone from anything work-related.
I left Monday last week after a crash had occurred in prod. Had happened during the weekend because of a colleague fumbling on the Friday. Noticed it Monday morning. Notified the boss who didn’t care much and left for his afternoon off anyway, trusting me to do what i could. Which I did. Stabilised the bleeding, explained others what they had done and what to do, how to mitigate, how to temporise till I was back, then fucked off at 5pm sharp, for one of the best romantic weeks in years. Not a one phone call or message. I had even taken my laptop just in case they were really stuck. Nothing.
Vive la France 🇫🇷 is what I’m saying.
sounds less to do with the country and more to do with the work culture of your team to me. I wish we were all this lucky lol
