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Gotta disagree strongly on that one, Tan. I've never, ever had a tech job that paid me extra to be on call. I happened to be working in a job right now where 24
by kstrauser 3y ago
Gotta disagree strongly on that one, Tan. I've never, ever had a tech job that paid me extra to be on call. I happened to be working in a job right now where 24/7/365 call is implicit; if our site goes down, I'm not going to split hairs about who's supposed to handle it that day. I knew that going into it. It's part of the Staff Engineer role when you're in or adjacent to security or SRE. I've also been in jobs where there was no obvious connection between my job and being on call after working hours, and yet after I started I was informed that it was my turn to answer the phone.
If you want to pay someone to be on call, rock on. If you're not going to pay them, why do you expect them to donate their nights and weekends to you?
- hackable_sand 3y agoIt would be like calling in one of your day-shift security guards to investigate an alarm at the bank. It just doesn't make sense.
- kstrauser 3y agoExactly! Call the CSO at home. That’s their job. If you want the guard to pick up their phone, budget for it.
- janosdebugs 3y agoIt also doesn't make much sense from a productivity standpoint. Whenever I did on-call, it would obviously disrupt my sleep schedule and my work performance the next day would be... suboptimal. Follow the sun makes much more sense.
- kstrauser 3y agoBTW, follow the sun is getting more complicated. Lots of large contracts in the US (and almost anything adjacent to the gov’t or their contractors) require US-only data storage and access now. I’ve worked with enterprise customers who were adamant that none of their data can leave the US under any circumstances, including having a subcontractor in London provide support.