This is the right answer. If a company thinks its system is critical 24x7 then it should have actual staffing 24x7. On-call is the type of egregious abuse of e

This is the right answer. If a company thinks its system is critical 24x7 then it should have actual staffing 24x7. On-call is the type of egregious abuse of employees that an IT union would be able to fight against. Right now companies can take advantage of people who are desperate (H1-B, young parents, etc) and don’t have the freedom to take a stand like the above poster but if all IT workers banded together it would be possible to fight against the practice.