sed_zeppelin

I was once paged over thirty times in a span of 24 hours while working for a website that, in the grand scheme of things, could unilaterally improve life in the United States by shutting itself down.

I wish more devs had the gumption to refuse it.

I can understand on-call hours if you're a literal firefighter or paramedic who saves lives. I understand that, as a building superintendent, every once in a long while you have to run out and fix a burst pipe before property is destroyed. I don't understand why some of these tech companies have on-call responsibilities like there was some hazard to life or property.

They need five nines of availability to make sure they don't lose one cent of potential ad revenue? Good luck with that, I guess, but I'll be over here actually sleeping through the night.

I just want to jump in as a minority voice here. In case anybody is reading the other comments and feeling... alienated.

I refuse to accept on-call duties, full stop. If a job posting expects it, I don't apply. If a hiring manager says they have it, I do not accept the offer. If management starts talking about maybe implementing it, I protest. If it becomes enacted, I resign.

There is absolutely no situation in which I will ever participate in another on-call shift. I've been there, I've done it, now that chapter of my life is closed. Find some younger kid, pay them better than you paid me for the miserable intrusion on their life. I'm done.

Just wanted to be the voice who says what, hopefully, some of the more seasoned and battle-scarred readers here are thinking.

Thank you for this facile answer to my genuine question.

The Mannheim Steamroller version of "Deck the Halls" Is bloody awful.

> I didn't know Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to this song. Man, that's gotta sting.

It would Sting more if we were talking about a song like "Fields of Gold."

On a whim, I decided to peek at the InfoWars homepage. At this moment, I cannot determine which of the headlines are genuine InfoWars content and which are the product of Onion writers. (I assume it's genuine due to the recency of the sale closing?)

The merging of YouTube and Google identities was an absolute nightmare. I was managing a site that used, I believe it was called "Google Apps for Your Domain" at the time, the predecessor to Google Workspace.

Ultimately we disabled YouTube in the Google admin panel for the organization, and advised the users to start sharing an unrelated Gmail account to manage the org's YouTube page.

I can't imagine un-merging the service logins to go any better.