[president_zippy]

I never implied that, let alone said it.

The only thing I implied is that workers with fewer rights that a U.S. citizen are easier to exploit and abuse.

If I refuse to take a work-related call at 3am, the worst that can happen is that I get fired, and spend months looking for a new job.

If you refuse to take a work-related call at 3am, you get fired and lose your ability to stay in a place you have lived for 5+ years and made your home.

That's BS, and I hate it almost as much as you do. You can be blackmailed with deportation, and I can be replaced with someone who can be blackmailed with deportation. We're both getting screwed in this current arrangement.

[1718627440]

Requesting work-related calls at 3am should be illegal and is in a lot of places.

[marcosdumay]

I doubt it's illegal in many places.

What is common is that being available counts as work.

[1718627440]

Your work hours are specified in your work contract. Demanding service without compensation and contract sounds highly illegal.

[cryptonector]

We have on-call duty for this. It should perhaps be compensated differently, and certainly one person should not always be on-call (though I have been at times on-call for months at a time, but for a thing that normally does not page at night). But what are we do to, have staff around the world so that someone can be on-call during their local business hours so we can have 24/7 support?

[FrustratedMonky]

Nice exchange. Both points are valid.