Sure it is. Fucking up is part of a job. If you’re working 9-5 on the clock, you don’t have to fix shit after 5. Choosing to stick around to fix your mistake off hours without pay when you could do it the next day or take comp time later is a sacrifice of your time/money.

If I hire someone to work on my house and they fuck up, e.g., hit a water or gas pipe, I expect them to fix it asap, with no additional pay. Fucking up is not part of the job if you’re doing the hiring……

Happened to me once, long time ago, I was cleaning up an oracle db production server, and by accident deleted to system datafile of the database. Sat there till midnight to fix it, but at least I had proof the backups were working…

No.

This highlights one of the key differences between owners and employees.

Employees are not nominally liable for mistakes they make while employed, excepting things like gross negligence or malicious behavior.

If an employee makes a mistake, forcing them to work "off the clock" to fix that mistake is a violation of labor law in pretty much every jurisdiction of which I am aware.

An employee could volunteer to do so, but frankly, as a "boss" myself, I would neither expect nor accept such a gesture.

Mistakes happen. It's part of the cost of doing business, and if you're a competent businessman, you factor that in. What I expect is that that employee won't make the same mistake again.

But I have and will never expect someone to work without being paid as agreed.

You don't see a difference between a contractor and an employee?

...does the company do, except for the amount of paperwork ?

Well, yes. There's a legal difference when overtime is being worked.

Companies go to court over the distinction.

Sounds like you sacrificed your time to make things right! Good on you!

That’s wage theft. It’s criminal to expect or not compensate for (unless salaried which is free season for exploitation)

I think that heavily depend on severity of the fuckup.

If you comitted a bug bringing the whole site down at 16:50 then went "welp, I won't fix it in 10 minutes, sucks to be on ops team today!", your login wouldn't work tomorrow

Yes, but I assure you the pink slip won’t mention anything about how the employee should have worked free overtime to fix their mistake. These things all vary considerably based on the type of employment. The only thing I’m arguing is semantic, but an important distinction in terms of recognizing the dignity in choosing to work for free in regards to the original point about giving alms.

Because...?