Going from retail to trade work 20 years ago was a world of difference. If someone has a day off, it's a DAY OFF and you better not even call the motherfucker. Workers will even get yelled at by the boss for disturbing fellow employees personal time if they don't absolutely have to.

Retail is just all hell. If anyone is doing that, get out. Get out any way you can. There is no future, you will NOT be rewarded for going above and beyond, and you are just a corporate asset.

There's also another major difference. In the trades, comraderie grows organically as you work with others on a job. In retail, it's all forced, with dumbass morning meetings and songs and shit.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I work in IT and if you need to call someone when they are off, that's a huge embarrassment.

Nothing should fall apart because one person on the team isn't there. Nothing should ever be so critical that their absence is life and death. Never should there be a problem where only one person has the answers.

If you have to call someone when they're off then you didn't manage your team and their work properly, and you fucked up, big.

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is what I've heard called the "bus buffer", which means "run your team so that if someone is hit by a bus you aren't totally screwed."

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Yep, and conversely someone is a "bus risk" if they are that single critical person.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Work in IT too, can 100% agree. If someone needs to come in at weekends/vacations/days off, it's a genuine skill issue of whoever is managing the project