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At the end of the day, everyone important is on some kind of defacto on-call (you don't think the head of sales will be woken up for the #1 customer, or the who
by ultrasaurus 8y ago
At the end of the day, everyone important is on some kind of defacto on-call (you don't think the head of sales will be woken up for the #1 customer, or the whole marketing team won't be pulled in on a Sunday if there's a big negative story in the NYT?).
A major benefit of PagerDuty is making it explicit how much you're burdening a specific on-call person or team. Some of the new stuff around team health is a great way to show managers "hey, we're pushing unfinished code that's ruining my team's work-life balance, we need to fix our procedures"
(Disclaimer: former PD employee, was on-call for years & learned how to police my work life balance pretty well)
- tayo42 8y agoI get that things happen, even when i made minimum wage and stocked shelves I got asked to work when I wasn't scheduled for an atypical situation. I guess there's a difference between some once a year oh shit moment and every six weeks planning my life around being close to a computer, phone and an internet connection.