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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 r
by 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 agothe 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 agoThats 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.