[teeray]

> 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.”

[ikiris]

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.