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New comment by t00l00 in "A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay"

t00l00 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:41:10 +0000

You can already try that by taking 4-8 days (depending how many bank holidays are around) out of your 28 days and work for two months 4-days a week. I did so in July and June and it was a blast.

From my tests, as long as you manage other people expectations, nobody will notice or care if you’re not there in IT.

And it’s not only 4 days of work. It’s also 3 days of rest. It’s obviously for the same reason but still… it does feel more powerful once you feel it on yourself. Distressing is amazing.

Once you try you will never want to go back.

Tbh I already work 100% remotely with flexible hours I want, and as long as I deliver nobody cares how much I work. Why anyone would? Seriously, who cares? As long as value is delivered: nobody.

New comment by t00l00 in "Warning – Google suspended GCP services for 'verification', lost my business"

t00l00 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:30:55 +0000

I’m £7.5k/mo in UK: have a named account manager, and an engineer who spends 2h/mo discussing whatever I want on a Google Meet, and bugs I can email directly. Got invited to their Leeds office to say hi and spend a day with them.

New comment by t00l00 in "Warning – Google suspended GCP services for 'verification', lost my business"

t00l00 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 21:19:45 +0000

Does this support depend on a region?

I’m here in UK, my bill is sub £10k/mo and literally today few hours ago I had an hour with Google engineer discussing use of their MultiClusterIngress to mix GKE standard and Autopilot to handle spikes extremely fast. Afterwards dude sent me docs and his project he used as an example. It’s the second time this month: we don’t even chat about any specific bugs, more about my architecture goals.

I also have an account manager and she’s currently working on making discount rates from our contract to work with our new hierarchy of multiple billing accounts, some VAT paying and some not, that my finance department requested.

You also can have backup payment methods? I think we have DDs as a default and then CCs as backups.