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Can someone please enlighten me what the heck an SLA is? I skimmed through the article and felt like he teased at providing a definition several times and then never actually did.
I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up. It's tired and lame.
I like the Swiss approach to overtime. 1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1] 2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this. 3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours pe…
I like the Swiss approach to overtime. 1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1] 2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this. 3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours pe…
If you look at [3], you'll see that it has been simplified and "manager" isn't required anymore - if you are flexible in your working hours and earn 120k+ (which isn't that much - if you work in tech or at a bank you'll likely earn more) the company can agree with you to not record working hours (there's still legal limits to how much you can work, of course) - this is relatively new, since 2016
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I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up. It's tired and lame.
What does "leet" mean?
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
I like the Swiss approach to overtime. 1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1] 2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this. 3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours pe…
Seems to be working here, the Norwegian economy is quite good and unemployment is low. It helps that people here 'work to live' rather than 'live to work' and that the work ethic (in most people) is fairly strong, people get on with working rather than spending a lot of time chatting round the coffee machine.
Can someone please enlighten me what the heck an SLA is? I skimmed through the article and felt like he teased at providing a definition several times and then never actually did.
I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up. It's tired and lame.
> It's tired and lame.
It's an incredibly common term we use at my workplace, and I expect many other engineering orgs use it as well.
We use it not only for services ("five nines"), but also for tasks and human initiated things.
It's a simple and useful stand-in for a complicated and abstract concept. I don't expect to have to explain SLAs every time they are discussed.
Can someone please enlighten me what the heck an SLA is? I skimmed through the article and felt like he teased at providing a definition several times and then never actually did.
> In IT we have a popular concept which is closely related to these two principles – Service-level agreement (SLA).
I like the Swiss approach to overtime. 1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1] 2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this. 3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours pe…
If you look at [3], you'll see that it has been simplified and "manager" isn't required anymore - if you are flexible in your working hours and earn 120k+ (which isn't that much - if you work in tech or at a bank you'll likely earn more) the company can agree with you to not record working hours (there's still legal limits to how much you can work, of course) - this is relatively new, since 2016
I like the Swiss approach to overtime. 1. It can only be demanded for exceptional circumstances, with justification. "Poor planning or lack of staff are insufficient." [1] 2. It must be compensated with 25% extra salary, or extra holiday (if the employee agrees). An employee cannot waive their right to this. 3. Even then, there is a limit by law on the number of extra hours you can do in a year, [2] says 170 hours pe…