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On-call is just fine as long as: 1. There is a rotation. 2. There are few pages, preferably the median should be 0 per week. 3. Spurious / non-actionable al
by cube2222 5y ago
On-call is just fine as long as:
1. There is a rotation.
2. There are few pages, preferably the median should be 0 per week.
3. Spurious / non-actionable alerts get fixed right away (with very high priority)
4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month.
5. You subtract middle of the night pages from your next working day, with bad nights resulting in a day off. Being on-call doesn't mean working overtime.
- mobiuscog 5y ago6. It's either opt-in or stated as a requirement on interview. Nobody should be coerced into on-call within a role that did not explicitly require it on joining.
- wccrawford 5y agoI've upvoted you, but I disagree. Extra work should mean extra pay. Even just having to be ready to work should result in extra pay. You are providing a benefit to the company, and they should compensate you appropriately. Rolling it into the contract isn't appropriate because anything that is "free" will get abused, eventually. Even if it's fine right now, it won't be eventually. And there's no way to stipulate that the "median should be 0 per week" in the contract, so that'll go out the window as soon as the company needs it to. I upvoted you because it's obvious you've thought about a lot of the problems with this and I feel you're on the right track. You just didn't go far enough.