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
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Replying to @sarahmei
Our after hours pool at work is voluntary and comes with fairly good extra pay plus time in lieu for incident response. We don't have issues staffing the roster.
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Replying to @louis_simoneau @sarahmei
Would you possibly be comfortable sharing specifics of the extra pay and time off amounts? There’s so little data out there on what is done
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Replying to @theBrc007 @sarahmei
Not sure if those figures are able to be made public, paging
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We pay a weekly allowance to carry the pager + hourly overtime at penalty rates for any actual work done when the pager goes off. Allowance varies by pager type and overtime rate is based on the hourly salary. Additional days off given when pager is carried on public holidays.
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Our pager pools are based on volunteers so we go out of our way to make sure being on pager doesn’t suck... which included investing a lot in reducing pager noise.
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We also make it clear that if you put hands on keyboard to address an issue that’s considered an hour worked minimum.
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