[strken]

That's absolutely insane. I've argued with a CEO about on-call burdens being too heavy before, and that was with a roster of three people who were only available 7am to 7pm.

What kind of slave driver expects literal 24/7/365 availability? Does that not breach labour laws where you work?

[whstl]

The on-call rotation had escalation, and instead of going to the manager it went to someone else in the team. Since there were only two backend engineers in my team, I was either always 1st or 2nd (clown emoji).

Unfortunately this is a huge hole in German labour law.

I quit there pretty fast, after a couple months. It was a tourism company, so Corona treated them very well.

The other company where this happened was a Content Marketing company that was wiped out by ChatGPT. I didn't do on-call there but the other team did.