[mrmincent]

If there is something that you would like to do in your own time that you can’t do because of a work requirement, your work should be compensating you back in time or money. Can’t go drinking / see a movie / go travelling for the weekend? They should pay you for the inconvenience. Actively working on a production issue due to catching a call? They should be paying you a multiple of your hourly rate. If they’re not a charity, you shouldn’t be donating your time and energy.

[3np]

Of course. Did anyone say otherwise? On-call is typically compensated for (with paid time off and/or money) on top of regular pay, with extras for any time spent on responses to incidents.

[matrix87]

It's salaried unfortunately

[Tknl]

Yes, this is abusive as your compensation doesn't grow with your time working. Your salary is based on an x hour work week. This system incentives poor software quality at the cost of your and your colleagues' time. My role and those of my direct colleagues is also salaried similarly with expectation of some overtime without additional comp, but that should be a rare hour or two. I do know of/work with other companies that have similar terms around on-call as yours. My employer does only 1 day at a time per engineer with a repeating 4 week schedule but we also have a support call center taking care of the majority of calls and only escalating to on call when necessary.

[mrmincent]

I’m salaried and I still get extra payments for being on-call, plus call out payments when I catch a call. Don’t work for free.