Oh, how I don't miss being responsible for building out the holiday oncall schedule. A few more tips: - Lead by example. If you're responsible for building t

Oh, how I don't miss being responsible for building out the holiday oncall schedule. A few more tips: - Lead by example. If you're responsible for building the schedule, do a shift yourself, and don't cherry pick the least bad one either. - Remember last year's schedule: it's shitty enough to do one Christmas, it's worse to do two in a row. - But also avoid the trap of scheduling only noobs on the worst shifts. At least the secondary should be a grizzled veteran. - Have an escalation plan in place if shit really hits the fan. Remember the Lizard Squad attacks during Christmas 2014? Good times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad