Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.

@davidaugust

hehe Being on-call used to mean you got extra money whether you got called in or not ($x/week).
If you got called in, they paid you four hours at overtime rates (time and a half) even for a 5 minute fix.

@gnoll110 @davidaugust

Though time off in lieu is often more expensive to the company than the extra cash

@gnoll110 @davidaugust
And introduces backpressure directly onto the product team (devs on call right!!!) to fix their shit
@kca @davidaugust @gnoll110 "you sure you want to prioritize this new feature over that mountain of tech debt?"
@charles plus the big side effect of “sorry boss half the team is off this week cause on call sucks. We could maybe make it not suck”