This is why I started my own contracting/consulting company, I hate on call and it always gets abused.
I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?
I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?
Well, nothing. Unless you’re MLB.com and have tens of millions of people paying you >$100/yr to have that information readily available. If that’s the case, you’re issuing credits (which is a huge time and money sink) and losing customers.
They won’t. No one will. They want their salaried employees to also be firefighters and the premise is absurd.
I don’t take calls at night; you cannot reach me. What are they gonna do, fire me?
Good joke. I run interviews and staffing someone who knows their left hand from their right is nearly impossible. Leverage works wonders.
Hate to break it to you, but starting your own contracting/consulting company means you are forever on-call. It just so happens that it's not called that explicitly, and the people you have to answer to are your customers (aka your bosses).
I get back to clients typically within one business day or I will show up to any meetings scheduled a week in advance. This has never been an issue.
I do not carry a cell phone and I make sure every client knows this. If I am outside my office I am living my life.