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by mr_tristan 2163 days ago
I've found the problem isn't being on call, it's being on call PLUS not having control over priorities.

When doing it right, owning the on call experience can be a valuable learning experience. But this usually means having extra time to do things like develop integration and performance testing environments. And access to make whatever changes needed to happen, happen.

But a lot of places are like "nah, you're being a perfectionist". And then expect you to magically respond to issues with vague descriptions and no diagnostics. And yeah, that sucks.