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Re:I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore by dylan604 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:00AM (#29369902)
Submit an invoice for a minimum 1 hour charge for any after hours work/calls. Devs need to start billing like lawyers.
Re:I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore by HarryHirsch on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:07AM (#29369954)
The "personal responsibility" narrative has seeped far to far into American life to be tolerable. Back then, we had industrial operations that were running 24 hours/day, things like factory assembly lines, steelmaking, the electric and gas utilities, and they had on-call rotas. But then we also had proper engineering practices, none of this "take ownership" crap, which reduced incidents, and we had unions that were in a position to push back on employer demands.

Instead we have self-indulgent junk like that. Wonder what my uncle would say, he was chief engineer for the gas company back in the day.

Re:I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore by bengale on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#29369980)
I always managed to get out of doing any on call work by pushing this point. There was a price for being put in the list of numbers that would reach my phone during non work hours and then further charges if I had to answer a call. Was always a pretty tense discussion with managers but they never wanted to pay for it and I never worked for free.