So, of course it's costing them talent. They just don't care.
So, of course it's costing them talent. They just don't care.
Why is that brutal? That's what on-call is. That's literally the point of paying someone extra for being available.
This of course means that the company is not incentivized at all to minimize oncall time by doing things like investing in cross training, or backfilling after resignations, since it's just cheaper to make your engineers be on call half of their (waking AND sleeping) lives.
This is obviously unjust and one of the reasons we need to increase our sector's union density. If you're actually interested in that and don't know where to start, I would recommend CWA's CODE training: https://code-cwa.org/upcoming-trainings
You can learn about the organizing process (which is not as mysterious and daunting as you probably think) and, more importantly, get in touch with experienced organizers who can help get you started and help an the way through the process. CWA has had a lot of successes recently, and the momentum continues to grow.
I saw one comment here replying to a post about why companies wouldn't just hire from Poland/India/etc. if they could do remote-only
He replied that you must hire in the US to get "high quality talent"
And the first thought I had was: is that really the case anymore, that companies are so desperate for "high quality"?
It increasingly seems like there is no such demand for that anymore, it's just about "how can we cut costs?" (the greatest corporate innovation ever)