My fundamental issue with being on call is that I care more about my personal life & health than I do about whether my employer’s website is operational.
I assume everyone does! So...why do we put up with on-call at all?
Maybe there’s something to this labor solidarity thing
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @sarahmei
This year I came to the intense realization, that no tech related "emergency" is ever actually an emergency that's worth my health. It's the best realization I've made in my professional life.
2 replies 5 retweets 44 likes -
Replying to @LittleKope @sarahmei
Happy for you health, but this argument is very subjective to the nature of the work being done. Not all software developers work for companies with "just websites." I am willing to drop everything for an outage because I know my work impacts real people and their very real lives
2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @dnathe4th
That’s great for you! You should be compensated for that, and folks who can’t do it for whatever reason should not be compelled to follow suit.
1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @sarahmei
Agreed to an extent. Can't be so well compensated there's no incentive to decrease the on-call burden or address core stability issues!
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @dnathe4th @sarahmei
That incentive shouldn’t be yours, it should be the company’s. If the financial burden of call outs is great enough, they’ll prioritise tech debt over new features.
1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
Absolutely agreed. Our workplace continues to insist that we do things that make our systems far less stable. If it cuts into our weekend via on call time, that's our problem, in their opinion.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.