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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here -

I am salary so as far as I know, there is no shift differential I could get.

I’m talking with my manager about this on Monday. My first go at this is March 4 (thankfully I’m off the hook for it this month)

It’s a very large company but for the area I’m in, we only have people in EST (me) and IST.

I wouldn’t mind starting the call at 8pm (but my question is, why do they need ME to start a call lol???) but to hang out on it all night long, when I have nothing to offer (again, I am a PM with no knowledge of the tech duties they are doing) - just…why???!

This just seems so unnecessary. [/quote]

Are they telling you you have to be awake and online until 3?  And then present in the office at 8 am the next morning?  If your manager is human, he will obviously know that’s unreasonable. [/quote]

OP here - yes that is the plan. I have to be online (we are mostly cameras off, thank goodness!) the entire time (I guess to make sure they don’t mess it up - but there is nothing I can do if that happens - they go through a different chain of command in that case and has nothing to do with me).

I am full time WFH though so no office presence. [/quote]

it sounds like you will be in charge of an IT product. When a new release is pushed, someone with authority needs to be present incase things go wrong. Releases are generally done when the fewest people are using the system, so nights and weekends and Friday nights of holiday weekends if it is a large release. It is part of the job. Once everything is validated and users start to come online in the morning and everything works, you go home/log off and go to sleep [/quote]

OP here. Yes that’s exactly why this is done this way. Our users are all USA based and won’t be using the app until roughly 8am ET. I guess I’m just venting/a bit upset that they tagged me, the sole person on the team based in the USA, when we have all the other team members in India who could do this during their regular working hours.[/quote]

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