Are you required to be on-call for your current job? What are some tips for managing on-call responsibilities effectively?
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On-Call Responsibilities: A Common Dilemma
Are you one of the many professionals who find themselves on-call for work duties? Share your experiences and insights with us!
My On-Call Experience: A Military Perspective
Having been in the military, I understand the challenges of being constantly on-call. Waking up in the middle of the night or on a day off due to network issues was always a struggle. Do you have similar experiences? How did you cope with on-call responsibilities? Let’s discuss and support one another in managing this aspect of our work lives effectively.
I’m a network engineer and I take part in a one week on call rotation. I’m on call about once every 7-8weeks.
I get paid $2.50/hr while I’m on call during non working hours and if I answer the phone I get minimum 2 hours of comp time (basically vacation that I can’t cash out).
Unless there is ot or a longer than 2 month rotation…dont do it
It is like being on house arrest
I might would work for ya.
At least your not a complete whore just yet đŸ™‚
I’m a devops engineer I’m on call every 5 weeks, maybe 3 actual alarms a year for the team, most things fix themselves after 5 minutes.
Yes. Director of Infrastructure.
Lol I have been on call with roles for the past 10 years…
I’m on-call every 3rd week. I am a clinical systems analyst and a PACS admin. I mainly support the EHR and PACS systems. I work in healthcare at a critical access hospital.
Still on call and I’m C-level.
If you are on call, you should be paid.
If they refuse to pay you, mention that you cannot put your life on hold and there may be situations where you may not be able to respond immediately. A reasonable timeframe is 2.5 hours.
When management pushes, back mention that doctors have backup plans for their availability and this is normal procedure.
Yes. I’m on call for one week at a time when it’s my turn, I do a flavor of cyber security. The cool thing is it might take me 20 mins of work but I still get paid for 4 OT hours regardless.
I am!
As a L2/L3 guy, I *rarely* get woken up during an call week but I still do get paid. Because that means shit has hit the fan.
Every tech related team at my company has an on call number
Blessedly no
Service analyst on-call every 3 weeks.
I actually have to do around 90 minutes of extra work a week for £260 ($300)
Na dog. Was in my last job though.
I’m being interviewed by IBM for Tech support professional tier 2 in the data and ai team. They have weekend rotation once every month but it is not on call. If you are scheduled for weekend, you.just have to work your 8 hours shift only and can sleep in between shifts.
Cloud Support
No on-call
Thank God!
I am a contractor as a Virtual hosting Engineer. There are 5 of us and we each take a one week rotation. If we have to log in and fix anything, we don’t get paid extra, but we do get comp time. So, if I have have to log in for 4 hours, I get to take a half day the Friday after my on-call shift. We don’t get many calls. Honestly, I usually only have to log in 1 out of every 3 rotations.
I work in NOC and do a week at a time 24/7. It’s ok if nothing breaks. Storm season really sucks.
No on call. Not in the budget. There is redundancy in place. If something really breaks bad enough overnight the department head handles it. Except SCADA. I don’t think he ever sleeps…
Help desk.
There is oncall
Healthcare with 24/7 operations.
Nope. That’s what the ops center is for.
Infrastructure Engineer.