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Re:DevOps Students Learn the Value of Uptime With 3 a.m. Calls by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:20PM (#11917898)
If you're lucky enough to have someone from engineering on the chat client at the time, they jump in, and it reflects poorly against you.

I realize the expectations are unrealistic, but as I'm sure most people know, your options are to leave or stick it out.

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Re:DevOps Students Learn the Value of Uptime With 3 a.m. Calls by Declanomous on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:35PM (#11917999)
There are more than two options. For instance, you can document this is an expectation of you, and you can document all of the times you are on call. Then you can sue them for unpaid overtime.
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Re:DevOps Students Learn the Value of Uptime With 3 a.m. Calls by serge2k on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:44PM (#11918054)
lol, OT for IT workers. Good one.

We're part of a very special group that employers are legally allowed to screw over regarding OT. Because reasons.

Actually I would really like to know the context of how that law got passed, if anyone has insights.

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