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> Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free". A symptom of this is when fixing bugs is
by teeray 3y ago
> Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free".
A symptom of this is when fixing bugs is not prioritized because the on-call engineer is a meat robot that “fixes the bug.”
- ikiris 3y agoNot to mention it never incentivises having actual business hours coverage instead of ruining someone's nights/weekends, because to do so would then cost the business more than just abusing the unlucky oncaller.