Additionally, paging someone when they should be sleeping is also abusive.
If you need 24/7 coverage, pay for follow-the-sun.
Most of what we do isn't actually that important.
My current job does this, they expect you to respond to pages at 4am
You're telling me this isn't a thing other places?
Edit: I should add that the secondary gets paged more often while the primary is new to the team and doesn't know how to fix everything. In return, you go on call 1/n less often in the future.
If I need to sleep in after a bad night, it's always been fine.
I agree, I'd like to see enough written down that no outage ever has a bus number of one. But I haven't been seeing that anywhere. I've resorted to this one time ever, and the super senior founding teammate was very engaged and assured me that it was the right call.
> pay for follow-the-sun
This seems likely to create a huge team of devs who are seen as interchangeable, no longer paid amazingly well, and don't have enough to do every day.