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Question, in what manner is your work level impacted by your coworkers' work level? This is different from where I work where if somebody goes on vacation, we a

• jerkstate 6y ago
  Having an oncall rotation with fewer people available means the available people are oncall more often. Committments that are hard to slip for internal political reasons means that those who are available to work pick up the slack. Fewer people to spread the constant level of customer support load over. Knowledge silos where you had an "expert" on subsystems and they are not available but that subsystem needs a fix so someone new has to go in and learn the system in order to fix it. I'm happy for you that your team does not suffer any of these inefficiencies, but these are not uncommon in work of certain shapes (SRE, for example)