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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by ahonhn on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:27AM (#31557084)
I really hated on-call support last time I had to do it, and we were all already putting in vastly more than 40 hours a week (seriously are there really any developer jobs that are only 40 hours in practice?).

The ridiculous thing was that it was only about a 1 in 10 chance one would get called, but I still couldn't get any sleep on those nights and would rock up even more tired than usual for work the next morning.

The callers would be end-customers from USA so I was always stressed I'd be too blur to answer well right after wake up and give them a bad impression. Didn't help I only understood some parts of the system so would have to muddle through the rest. My spouse wasn't overly impressed by having the phone randomly ringing at 3am either.

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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by heavyset_go on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:42PM (#31564781)
Agreed, had similar experiences, and I won't take a role with any type of on-call duty. Thankfully there are a lot of companies out there that aren't trying to cannibalize their employees' free time to cut costs.
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