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It depends how often you get the pager, no? If your calls were often at 4am and you had to work a normal schedule, it certainly does no good. Also, you are say
by zzleeper 11y ago
It depends how often you get the pager, no?
If your calls were often at 4am and you had to work a normal schedule, it certainly does no good. Also, you are saying that nearly broke you, as if it's a badge of pride or something good...
- madaxe_again 11y agoThat's the thing. For the types who do ooo work, it is a badge of pride - and I dare say if anything this is what she made him go to therapy over - I've had the conversation - "your job is ruining our fucking lives!" - "I enjoy it. It's hard but rewarding" - "you're getting your head checked".
- vacri 11y agoI did on-call for a sleep medicine company. My calls were specifically during sleep hours (when the equipment is in use is when it has problems). The calls were rarely short, and I had no direct link to the equipment to run my own tests - it was always trying to troubleshoot via a usually non-techinical enduser. It was a great night if you received zero calls. I have my on-call battle-scars. So this being said, I agree with the GP - on-call sucks, but one week in four is not that bad. One week in five and it's fairly breezy. One week in three or less and it's pretty bad - you basically stop having an external life altogether. Like the GP, I also thought the article was a bit whiny. Yes, there were some truths in it, but whines like "omg, there is crunch time" make the author sound pretty self-entitled. Another whine was "not working for the same boss that hired him"... after six years in the company. Who could take such a complaint seriously? One of the more valid problems listed is the shifting of priorities every two weeks. That stuff is a killer - to morale, to progress, to development, to pretty much everything.