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#HugOps to GitHub Engineers! Such things are usually stressful, especially before the weekend. In addition, in some European countries today is a bridge day (da
by mritzmann 4y ago
#HugOps to GitHub Engineers! Such things are usually stressful, especially before the weekend. In addition, in some European countries today is a bridge day (day between a holiday and the weekend, many people take off on such a day).
- tssva 4y agoIn the US this coming Monday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day weekend is a very popular travel time and many people will be taking today off to extend those trips an additional day. Hopefully no GitHub engineers will be forced to sacrifice such plans.
- joshvm 4y agoI would imagine this is mostly the domain of on-call engineers/SREs (wasn't this historically a problem that was fixed by a reboot?) and you have to assume that you're going to be called at 4AM on a Saturday morning. So even booking vacation when you're on shift is risky, and unfortunately that means someone has to work public holidays. Good companies will give you a day off in lieu. Having done on-call work, the most annoying bugs are the ones that you feel could be automated (especially when the pager goes off when you're asleep). Not to say that I hope these guys get called out, but it's the nature of the job.
- tssva 4y agoI have managed many on-call people during my career. I hated whenever one of my guys actually had to answer a call. It meant we had failed somewhere and needed to get better. I certainly didn't accept it as just the nature of the job.
- nix23 4y ago>It meant we had failed somewhere and needed to get better. That is the work-ethic i would love to see from all manager. Excellent attitude to life/work.