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
Or maybe it could come out of a manager’s bonus so they’d be incentivized to let teams stabilize software. Incentives work so well for sales teams but are rarely used on engineering teams IME.




