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That makes no sense. What sane company would pay you 1.5x to be oncall instead of just paying someone 1x to do actual work as well as respond to pages when they
by yibg 4y ago
That makes no sense. What sane company would pay you 1.5x to be oncall instead of just paying someone 1x to do actual work as well as respond to pages when they happen?
- sidlls 4y agoYes: there is no shortage of people who literally value their life so little that tech companies get away with exactly what you describe. They can because the vast majority of engineers don’t value their own lives. That’s what the time they’re trading is: precious seconds of their lives.
- yibg 4y agoThat's not what I mean. There is no point in a company paying someone 1x for 8 hours of work and another 3x for 16 hours of oncall when they can just hire 3 engineers and work 8 hour shifts. That way they only pay 3x (instead of 4x) AND have the engineers do engineering work 24 hours (instead of 8 hours + 16 hours of oncall).
- bluefirebrand 4y agoYes, now you're getting it. Companies need to stop squeezing by on free or under-compensated labour from their workers and instead hire sufficient numbers of people to cover the work they want to be done. What a shocking concept.
- sdf4j 4y agoThat's exactly what the company should have done in the first place. The 1.5x is to disincentivize that. A lot of industries (mostly unionized tbf) have it.