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
This is a question I’ve asked a lot. I started as a sysadmin in the 90s. Suddenly everyone wanted infinite nines of uptime but almost no one paid for the extra staff it took to do it humanely. And I think that’s how the modern oncall rotation was born.
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Replying to @richburroughs @sarahmei
The fact that employers have been able to get so many people to buy into that scenario is pretty amazing to me. My personal solution was to move into roles with no oncall responsibilities, but I was in rotations for many years before I went there.
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Replying to @richburroughs @sarahmei
Couldn’t agree more Rich.
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