Re:HumanOps – Focusing on the human aspects of running infra...
by specialist on Sunday June 26, 2016 @07:40PM
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Not a coup. More like the continued ass kicking of labor by capital.
I had a leash (pager) in 1992 that was tugged often. The fur really flew if I didn't call back immediately. eg I almost got fired because I was in the shower at the gym (at 7:00am) and took 15 min to call back.
From what I can tell, since pretty much everyone I know has done a tour of duty at Amazon or equiv, things have only gotten worse.
"means they don't have to hire someone else"
Natch. But I see it more like someone else's failure to plan creates an (recurring) emergency for me.
I'd say, the blurring of work/off-work hours is one of the greatest coups of industry. Having someone on-call means they don't have to hire someone else to be there during "off-hours". I understand it adds costs --yes, pass them on [but someone else which cheap out and just have on-call and undersell us: pass laws to eliminate the choice.
I'm no fan of the industrial age with its "dehumanization"/abstraction of labor, but I do appreciate the hard delineation between work hours and non-work hours.