Having to page someone on vacation is a very very broken organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.