Helping Out and Working on the Weekend
There is a new release of software coming out from the company I work for. But it needs to be tested more to make sure there aren't major issues. This is important, since you don't want your clients to be finding the bugs that impact their production environment and potentially cost the money of not being able to do what they need to do.
The company is small, so the QA department can only do so much in a short period of time, and also there are limits on stress tests. Clients can test the software on hundreds of devices at a time, processing thousands a day potentially. So to get close to that amount, some more QA testing is being requested on Sunday (tomorrow).
I am one who volunteered to help out. I will be going in to work on Sunday to do some QA testing. I did about 2 hours on Friday, and boy is it boring. I was originally going to do 8 hours tomorrow, but I cut that down to 4 hours. No way am I going to be doing 8 hours of testing phones. It's just so dull and repetitive with hardly any cognitive requirement.
My regular job in support is more interesting, requiring me to think and figure things out. But running a software test suite on phones is too boring.
Have you ever worked on weekends to help the company you work for out? How did that go? Would you do it again? Do you do that often (enough)?
I spend so many weekends in working for companies which I can't even count this is really suck but the fact they need you on the weekend show you have big impact....
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I work many a weekend but it’s because I work for myself so there’s a real motivation to get up and do it or well you don’t eat lol and I happen to like eating
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I did it once when my company was transferring our contract to another company and they needed to test whether the new servers could run under stress
I don't know whether it counted as volunteering since I was salaried, but yes it was boring as hell.
However, there was a benefit I didn't plan on; the non-technical rep the other company sent over to watch from our end took us out for a steak dinner afterwards, and then twisted our arms to go to the topless bar on his dime
oh the humanity
I have done it before for like large events like Black Friday online sale preps and other major sales when I worked for a large e-commerce site and it was my first job so I enjoyed it but now I doubt I’d do it unless there’s a something something coming my way
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It's a good job, as I always tell my son you have to get up from that chair every so often, stretch your legs, come and I'll serve you a coffee with warm milk, to clear your mind, it's important, I know it's hard to get rid of the idea when a program is being made. regards @krnel
My son did so, he was paid for extra travel, but afterwards it got worse and he realized that the company did not justify that wear. however from time to time it helped a weekend.