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by ikiris 1079 days ago
66% of time credit for time spent on call outside business hours regardless if paged or not. Maximum levels of pages etc.

Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free".

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> Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free".

A symptom of this is when fixing bugs is not prioritized because the on-call engineer is a meat robot that “fixes the bug.”

Not to mention it never incentivises having actual business hours coverage instead of ruining someone's nights/weekends, because to do so would then cost the business more than just abusing the unlucky oncaller.