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In my old team we managed our on call rotation for years with five persons. One primary, no secondary, 7 days in a row. Of course we had to arrange ourselves be

In my old team we managed our on call rotation for years with five persons. One primary, no secondary, 7 days in a row. Of course we had to arrange ourselves because of vacation and sick leave but we always managed. We also had an organizational rule that forbade being on call for more than ten days in a row or on two consecutive weekends.

simonsaidit 8y ago
I was on call for years for a global lottery software and services provider in a 4 man rotation 1 week each. Took people 3-5 years to be ready to take on this responsibility. The last few years i was alone as people left with stress and i was 24/7 365. The pay was good but the day my new boss told me he didet get paid so i could escalate at nite and nobody could find a solution for months i started to look for new oppertunities. They hadent tried to prepare new people for years but managed to get a guy who was not ready to take the call but it also resulted in major incident and data loss. By the time i got out i had constant tinitus so i could barely hear on one ear from the stress so Im pretty happy Im done with it now but Sometimes miss the action ;)
- fencepost 8y ago
  the day my new boss told me he didet get paid so i could escalate at nite Great, I want to go hourly, or if staying salaried I want to be paid as if hourly. That means I'm paid 33% for all time that I keep myself available while on-call, and paid 2x (or more?) for time spent actually responding because it's after-hours overtime. If I'm going to be 24/7/365 with no backup and get crap about "I'm not paid for you to escalate to me at night," you're going to pay through the nose.
  - simonsaidit 8y ago
    Thats What i told him and it quickly escalated to HR ;) and it was 30% for after hours i dident get extra for responding but was it was often at nite it would sleep in the next day.

simonsaidit 8y ago

I was on call for years for a global lottery software and services provider in a 4 man rotation 1 week each. Took people 3-5 years to be ready to take on this responsibility. The last few years i was alone as people left with stress and i was 24/7 365. The pay was good but the day my new boss told me he didet get paid so i could escalate at nite and nobody could find a solution for months i started to look for new oppertunities. They hadent tried to prepare new people for years but managed to get a guy who was not ready to take the call but it also resulted in major incident and data loss. By the time i got out i had constant tinitus so i could barely hear on one ear from the stress so Im pretty happy Im done with it now but Sometimes miss the action ;)

fencepost 8y ago
the day my new boss told me he didet get paid so i could escalate at nite Great, I want to go hourly, or if staying salaried I want to be paid as if hourly. That means I'm paid 33% for all time that I keep myself available while on-call, and paid 2x (or more?) for time spent actually responding because it's after-hours overtime. If I'm going to be 24/7/365 with no backup and get crap about "I'm not paid for you to escalate to me at night," you're going to pay through the nose.
- simonsaidit 8y ago
  Thats What i told him and it quickly escalated to HR ;) and it was 30% for after hours i dident get extra for responding but was it was often at nite it would sleep in the next day.