3 ms·
If 24/7 uptime is important enough that it requires pager duty and the pager goes off more than once a month, someone should be working during that time. Otherw
by hiou 12y ago
If 24/7 uptime is important enough that it requires pager duty and the pager goes off more than once a month, someone should be working during that time. Otherwise it's a tell tale sign of an employer that does not respect their employees. When you think about it, if everyone is already working full time and the pager goes off 5 or 6 times a month and each incident requires about 2-3 hours across 3 people they are essentially wage stealing 20-30 hours a month. A quality employer puts those 30 hours into preventing it from happening in the first place and/or hiring someone to monitor things overnight.
Edit: I should also add one last thing. If you are knowledge industry professional, is working part-time graveyard shift something you spent all that time developing your skills for?
- deskamess 12y agoCould not agree more. And they are not just using the time that you spent on the call. When you are on call for the week you are on call for all those hours whether there is an issue or not - your time is spoken for. No trips to remote areas or anywhere where connectivity is suspect (both phone and computer). In my case it was a slippery slope... there was never on-call. Then one of our key (financially) customers had to go through cuts and we had to cut our support personnel and the support onus shifted to the developers. Since then this has become the norm across all customers. And the customer who had those cuts recovered and went on a 5 million dollar project with another vendor. So this year my company decides to offer us $500 for the week we are on call. It translates to $5/hr. There is no option to decline the money and not do call.