Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life

Re:Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life by server_man3000 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:17PM (#46212919)

Oncall is complete bullshit and the fact that we have standardised this without Additional pay has greatly affected my life working in big tech.

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Re:Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life by fastest963 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:32PM (#46213705)

I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.

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Re:Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life by stevewodil on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:09AM (#46214619)

On call rotations are part of basically every engineering team that owns any production service at tech companies, not just SRE

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Re:Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life by server_man3000 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:29AM (#46216173)

Oncall being in the job description just doesn’t rationalize the abuse and insanity Ive seen myself and my team go through.

I don’t think a bullet in a job description and expected baseline pay for a tech job is reasonable enough to accept that either.

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