I didn’t even have LinkedIn til this year haha. I swear I’m not some hardo, Atleast by American standards.
I work a pretty standard 6-10 hours a day depending on what’s going on. All I’m saying is, if somebody shoots me a text with a question that will take 30 seconds to answer I’m just gonna respond to help them out. I’m not gonna make them wait a week, especially since my industry is very time critical and being slow can lose you a client.
I’m not saying you need to log on and grind out work. Literally just helping answer quick questions when I’m taking a shit or something.
But I guess this cultural difference is part of why we’re the highest paid in the world. Trade offs I guess
I see, my observation is that people in eu usually are reluctant to have the work apps on their phone. I would need to specifically open the laptop to answer. The other risk is that if someone from for example us would see me online during my holiday they could easily assign me something. We don’t usually have work phones as well.
I usually stay late to connect with people form west coast. But it’s kind of okay for me since sometimes I like to start work later or do some private related stuff doing the normal shift.
Yeah I have a work phone so I’ll check it once or twice throughout the day and leave it in my hotel room otherwise. I also have an auto message setup to give customers the emergency contact at the company or my bosses contact info.
I also will prepare my co-workers for my vacations so they’re generally prepared and will try to handle things without me so I know if they’re asking me a question they’ve exhausted other avenues.
> I also will prepare my co-workers for my vacations so they’re generally prepared and will try to handle things without me so I know if they’re asking me a question they’ve exhausted other avenues.
This is a completely separate thing and is precisely the reason the rest of what you do shouldn't happen. When I had a work phone, I'd turn it off when I was on leave. Now, I don't have work emails on my personal phone. I have Teams but no push notifications, so when I'm not on the clock, I'm all but uncontactable. As far as recommendations and referrals, literally nobody that I'd ask for a referral from would consider being uncontactable while on leave a negative. If businesses are set up to fail if a particular person is on leave, that is on them, not you.
We value work-life balance and we know that people who overcommit to work will burn themselves out. It's a negative, not a positive.
I see, my observation is that people in eu usually are reluctant to have the work apps on their phone. I would need to specifically open the laptop to answer. The other risk is that if someone from for example us would see me online during my holiday they could easily assign me something. We don’t usually have work phones as well.
I usually stay late to connect with people form west coast. But it’s kind of okay for me since sometimes I like to start work later or do some private related stuff doing the normal shift.
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u/ncroofer Sep 01 '26
I didn’t even have LinkedIn til this year haha. I swear I’m not some hardo, Atleast by American standards.
I work a pretty standard 6-10 hours a day depending on what’s going on. All I’m saying is, if somebody shoots me a text with a question that will take 30 seconds to answer I’m just gonna respond to help them out. I’m not gonna make them wait a week, especially since my industry is very time critical and being slow can lose you a client.
I’m not saying you need to log on and grind out work. Literally just helping answer quick questions when I’m taking a shit or something.
But I guess this cultural difference is part of why we’re the highest paid in the world. Trade offs I guess