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>It means if you're at your mom's funeral giving a eulogy you leave mid-speech to address PagerDuty.

You should not be on-call while you're at your mom's funeral, period.

While I agree totally that you Shouldn't be, we all know that some places will try to force this on you.

The point still stands whether they try to force you or not. I'm constantly amazed by the lack of boundaries some people in this industry entertain.

I had an awful manager who insisted I needed to "see if I can find someone to cover" for me for a funeral.

I'd tell them that's their job as a manager.