ymnska

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   by ymnska 6y ago

   > This need not be discussed, you can simply tell your manager. Thanks. Yes, I suspect that this is informally how it often works for people taking the worst of the brunt. What's a little irking though is that it's not formal
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   Thanks! I appreciate the thoughts, although it doesn't sound like I am as bad off as you were in this case. I can hugely sympathize with on-call bleeding into other parts of your life/career though. One of the things I detest most
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   Thanks. Not exactly the answer I wanted to hear, but still a useful one nonetheless. I suspect that a great many people in SV have a similar policy, even if they've never consciously thought about it before. I've always had a simi
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   > What is the 'punishment' for not getting to a call on time? There is no formal one, just more of an implication. If you miss one page, people will notice, and you might get asked about it the next day. If it's just the
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   > At a previous company, on-call was optional and we were compensated for that week when we were on call (an extra $500, IIRC.) About 50% of the team of 12 participated, meaning your week came up basically every month and a half. This s
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   100% agree that these are questions that should be asked, and if you're in position to, hard-balled as a condition of joining something. It's more complicated in practice than it sounds though because before you join, you'l
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   Thanks! > Here your personal time being lost with no compensation is simply not worth it. In fact if you don't respond in time it may reflect badly on you. Yep, you're onto something there. A particularly insidious effect is
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   You might be onto something there (and indeed that might be the inevitable result in this case), but it always feels a little icky to just use the nuclear option without trying to affect change. Even if I go, the rest of obedient-but-very-l
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   by ymnska 6y ago

   Thanks! > Make it clear to your manager this is unacceptable, and you will end up looking for alternate teams/jobs if this goes on I'm trying to do this in as harmonious way as I possibly can, but I'm a bit worried that
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    by ymnska 6y ago

    > Why doesn't the company hire someone in another time zone? We have teams in other time zones, but we're sectioned off in such a way that every team manages their own operations, and members within a team tend to be clustere
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    Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?

    101 points by ymnska 6y ago|120 comments