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> On-call is a way for bad businesses to steal money from their workers by expecting them to work 24/7 without paying them 4.2x their salary. This is not entir
by hiyer 5y ago
> On-call is a way for bad businesses to steal money from their workers by expecting them to work 24/7 without paying them 4.2x their salary.
This is not entirely true. I think the fact that companies don't have to hire separate support/SRE staff is priced into the exorbitant salaries that devs are paid these days. When I started my career around a decade back, there used to be at least 2-3 levels of escalation engineers/support staff between the customer and the developer. Today it's usually zero, and part of those salaries paid to dev instead.
I may be in the minority, but frankly, I'll easily take a pay cut not to have to go through the on-call sh*t every few weeks.
- pnutjam 5y agoShow me where that's spelled out in anyone's employment posting or negotiated by any sort of employee rep. It's clearly a grab back by employers trying to save a dime and being stupid about the long term effects.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoHow many developers actually have exorbitant salaries? Is 54k for 60 hours per week considered exorbitant 10 years ago? Because that’s how much I was paid while being expected to be available 24/7. My cheap apartment was a 3rd of my pay. I was fortunate to have no debt and get a car from my parents. I was up to 90k about five years later. Which is decent in the Midwest but I wouldn’t consider it exorbitant. I doubt I’ll see anything near $200k for a long time. By then, it’ll be less than 90k considering inflation.