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My last job has 24/7 on-call rotation once every 5 weeks with a duration of 1 week. That was the most stressful and frustrated path of my career: got paged seve
by mrbonner 12y ago
My last job has 24/7 on-call rotation once every 5 weeks with a duration of 1 week. That was the most stressful and frustrated path of my career: got paged several times a week, got paged during wee hours (2, 3AM) by business idiots from oversea, got paged when someone else's system was down.
I remember my first page was on the day before Thanksgiving around 5PM. And then the 2nd and 3rd one one came after that around 8PM adn 11PM. And then on Thanksgiving day I got paged around 9AM when I was driving to the airport to pick up my brother. I didn't know what to do at that point.
The worst happened when my wife gave birth and I got paged while waiting in the hospital. She gave birth 2 weeks earlier so it screwed up my on-call planning. I called my manager and said "you gotta get someone to replace me, I am at the hospital."
About 6 months later I quit.