Do you suffer from lack of sleep due to globalization?  |
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 Are you a victim? Have you been called up to work on late shift just because your colleagues from the other side of Earth needed you to work on something? And sometimes, that something is caused by their own mistakes.
Or do you have something similar to my experience? I worked until 1am my time, went to sleep, and the US team called me up at 3.30am and asked me to go online. The first question they asked me - Are you watching football?
I said No.
And they replied Oh...do you know your team leader's contact? Can you call him up?
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They called me at 3am, to find another person. And I have another meeting at 8am. I only had 3 hours of sleep that day.
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1.  laydee (3977) | 1 year ago |  First and foremost, I'd like to ask what your work is? and how you got it? hehehe.. Do you do that at home or is it that you go out?
If that's at home then it would be ok for me to be waken up, but if I have to drive to work at that hour, then I think I'd quit before I get an accident for sleeping while driving. Hehehe..
I guess it's really tough that there's a whole new world due to globalization. We tend to work with other people who are awake on the other side of the world.
We had a few of those before when our leaders were on the other county, and we had frequent meetings at 11pm and ended around 1am. And we'd go home to take a rest then show up again at 7am. It was tough because we had to drive home. Sooner or later, we decided to sleep on the office! hahahaha.. It was fun but it took it's toll after a few months. We started not thinking well, and our performance wasn't that great at all. I guess it pays a lot to distort the body's biological clock.
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| daydreamer20 (768) | 1 year ago | I worked at home from 6pm - 1am. But the meeting at 8 am was in the office, which was around 20 minutes drive away. Hahahha. I'm in the IT industry. I wasn't being paid an allowance to compensate that and the salary wasn't really that good. I got tired after 1 year and quit.
I think a proper process should be in place - to work based on your time zone unless you're being told otherwise (with proper compensation). They do need to pay you for messing up with your biological clock:D | |
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| laydee (3977) | 1 year ago | Oh definitely! You should get paid for messing your biological clock. It actually causes a lot of health problems in the long-run, just look at those who work at the call center industry where they change their biological clock weekly, more than the usual.
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| daydreamer20 (768) | 1 year ago | Yeap, that's why most of those working on shift or weird hours, they tend to get paid a little bit higher than normal employees. Pros n cons I guess. See whether you wanna do it or not. Same goes for stewardess and airline pilot. Earn a lot, travel a lot, but no life at all. | |
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| 2. sandymay16 (1330) | 1 year ago |  Hi daydreamer, I know what you mean and thanks that I did not join the bandwagon of the ill effects of globalization hehe. Many of my friends and relatives are into it also because they work in call centers and the like, somehow it's a matter of adjustment and really doing the job because you have no other choice except to quit.
I don't have work now but I dared not work in jobs that are the results of globalization because I know I can't survive. To each his or her own in surviving globalization just be sure that you know how to get out if you become the victim as you called it.
My former jobs are helping those people who are voiceless and don't have the means to live in this world due to the ill effects of globalization and those who don't know how to take advantage of the positive effects of globalization.
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| daydreamer20 (768) | 1 year ago | Actually, globalization is a 2-edge swords. I've seen globalization been implemented successfully in some companies. People like us getting more job opportunities and higher pay....that is not a bad thing. The bad thing is when the company screws the process up.:P
But irregardless of our ill feelings on it, it will still strike us hard since it's already here. We have to embrace it and maybe help to 'perfect' it. It's not easy, but it's not impossible.
Hopefully 1 day, you will find that globalization related job is not that bad...some of them might even suit your taste! | |
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