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by t-writescode 1990 days ago
I've always expected on-call time to be part of my job. It's part of how I can be okay with working 4 hours one day and 10 hours the next day.

I'm salary and my compensation includes my on-call hours. That's how I've always seen it. Now, if there's a balance and if the work becomes excessive, then a conversation needs to be had and probably standards need to be looked at because something is very wrong at the company. On-call shouldn't regularly be demanding, almost everybody that's capable of it should be doing it in a given role, and so on.

When that's not true, it needs to be investigated because it's unsustainable.