On call is shitty and I wish it wasn't accepted they way it is.
Either hire people to work around the globe, or people that want to hire in shifts or accept that your product isn't going to be on 24 hours a day.
Either hire people to work around the globe, or people that want to hire in shifts or accept that your product isn't going to be on 24 hours a day.
Blue collar industrial jobs treat their people better than software usually does.
Yes this should be the only time your ever called in off hours, there better be a threat of people dieing. hah
The reality of oncall is the server is filled up because no one can bother to rotate a log file, so you get paged at 4am to delete a file.
Partially, i think its this way because it is accepted, no one seems to question it or push back on it. No one values their free time out side of work?
Also, Every time Ive been oncall I have been oncall for code I didn't write, I haven't even always have a job coding (ops/devops/sre roles) and have been on call for services. Or there's that thing that been neglected and unowned but someone needs to be oncall for it.