This is how my job is. If something goes horribly wrong after hours we get a text, but if I’m not at home doing nothing already then it has to wait and I’ll get to it when I can, and that’s expected.
In exchange we get to sort of do what we want and leave early whenever. Yesterday I took off at lunch and went sledding with the family. I only ever use my PTO for actual vacations or days where I’ll be completely unavailable.
I personally love it, I would love on call pay too but that freedom to take my son sledding on a snow day without having to lose pay is incredible. There’s only ever been 1 emergency issue in the past 2 years that I’ve had to hop on after hours to take care of.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
That’s what oncall rotations are for. If you’re not oncall, don’t be available outside your regular working hours
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
When servers go down everyone is on call. Both of us.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
My first tech job was somewhere like that.
Never again.