Server: “Oh patch me harder, daddy”
Blizzard tech updating the work ticket: “Recent hotfix did not resolve the issue.”
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Some people seem to only be happy when they are unhappy.
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An hour on a Saturday morning for a hotfix?
Maybe it’s because I’m in IT, but I’m fine with it. Things happen, and they needs be fixed.
someone is likely getting their overtime compensation
Honestly, I’d guess they’re not getting anything extra. In my experience most infrastructure gigs (eg. server teams) are salaried, likely in part so the company doesn’t have to pay them extra to work late/weekends.
It depends on their salary. Under a certain level of pay they are guaranteed overtime by Federal labor laws.
But even then, a company like Blizzard likely doesn’t care about overtime compensation too much. It’s likely invisible to their bottom line, just due to the money they make every day.
Gotta get that Castle loot big fixed! Don’t want to many people getting loot this weekend!
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Except for all the class tunings, which will go into effect tomorrow during the maintenance.
Except for “technical” employees, who are often overtime exempt. I’d bet money that most of Blizzards operations and NOC employees (as well as developers) are overtime exempt.
Unless they’re in an exempted category, the same way most tipped staff can be payed less than minimum wage.
You’d be surprised. Sure, one guy getting overtime won’t matter but it can add up quick. Personnel costs can be a pretty large chunk of expenses for some places.
Some companies leave it to individual supervisors to approve but some you have to route it pretty high up. One company I used to work for it was up to each division. Mine left it up to the managers (who mostly didn’t actually care as long as you were actually doing something) but for the manufacturing division weekend overtime went up to their VP and had to be approved by noon Thursday or it didn’t happen.
If you mean the ones that Kaivax posted, they’re set for Tuesday.
There was a time when the servers would be down for a week, and it wasn’t scheduled, meaning they would go down and then they would be running around with their hair on fire all week trying to get them working.
But I guess we don’t talk about those days anymore.
Happens when they need to update the client.