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A comment on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made it myself. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al... by throwmeaway1212 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:40PM (#35678513)
'Taking a holiday became like a 12 step program - email boss in advance, put in HR system request, cross check your PagerDuty schedule, negotiate a trade with another teammate for PagerDuty rotation, decline meetings, update your outlook calendar out-of-office, set your slack status & notifications, and re-remind everyone the week before you go. It's almost like they wanted it to be easier to just not take time off?'

Most of this has nothing to do with pager duty, but instead is around the companies process.

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Re:Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al... by steveBK123 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:42PM (#35678532)
The problem is top-down CTO purchasing of these magic bullet tools w/o budgeting/planning integration.

Instead becoming "the place to look" it becomes "the Nth place to look" for alerts. Without thoughtful planning, its entirely possible to be in worse shape for having purchased it.

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