On call is one of the things that nobody told me about honestly. You’re absolutely right that it affects ones life: you need to ensure availability for OC work.

On call is one of the things that nobody told me about honestly. You’re absolutely right that it affects ones life: you need to ensure availability for OC work. Managers who downplay this are liars. That being said: the SRE model has encouraged orgs to improve observability and set clear expectations and it often coaxes teams into building more reliable systems under the threat of limitless OC toil.