[elmerfud]

My point is that often times we are active participants in bad infrastructure and bad oncall programs. If you're not calling for post outage remediation plans and actively implementing them, then you're enabling bad process. If management is not budgeting for and prioritizing this work and not paying over time for time worked when on call, and you haven't found another job, you're enabling. Good employees don't enable bad practices, good employees don't work at companies that allow for bad practices. Even in a bad job market there is always room for good employees to shift to better employers. Good employers welcome these kind of changes because they attach a financial cost to on call and then they look to reduce that as a cost center. Bad employers do not track or attach a budget line item to on call outages therefore they continue to abuse the employees that allow themselves to be put in that situation.

Once you've worked on call for a good employer, you'll absolutely understand what I'm saying. The idea of being alone person shackled to a pager biting your nails because it's a holiday becomes a thing of the past.