A Sysadmin, but not *your* SysadminThese daily overnight alerts are getting old. What's it it like working somewhere where OOM bug fixes are prioritized by development teams?
"Musty Bits" McGee@NotYourSysadmin not to be a turd but why are you getting paged for them? And does it really matter if SLA isn't breached?
@arichtman Because my CTO is a mad man that thinks all bugs should be resolved with a PagerDuty alert that wakes someone up to restart an EC2 instance rather than having a dev not work on a new feature. Also, what SLA? Any uptime less than 100% is unacceptable, despite things like resiliency and error handling not being something we prioritize.
@NotYourSysadmin jeeeeezuz christ
@arichtman Have I mentioned I'm looking to get #FediHired? Seriously, though, I'm actually close to my breaking point. My physical and mental health are suffering, I'm sleeping poorly, my temper is way too short, and I'm just this close from walking away from it with nothing else lined up.
Private F. SealeIt's like this in a lot of places. I've been through it many times. Here's what you need to do:
First, FYI, if you are contributing to a company pension/401k it's going to cost you a lot of money to move jobs.
2. Document everything you do day&night on personal account.
3. Protect yourself and take advantage of any sick days or PTO.
4. Slow down. Sprinkle your days with tea breaks.
5. Cut one meeting a day off your calendar by double booking yourself.
@geichel @arichtman Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts.
The advantage of this being such a garbage company is that there's no 401k matching, so no loss there.
Nothing illegal is going on, just immoral. Documentation might or might not help.
I'm taking a full week of leave in a few weeks which will *technically* put me at -0.09 hours of PTO. Rest assured, I'm claiming every second I can.
I'm so burnt out, I'm already doing that. ðŸ«
@NotYourSysadmin @arichtman record your day to day to be prepared for any future interactions with HR. Be sure to phrase all activities as tasks completed. And time taken. And who gave you those tasks.
@geichel @arichtman I'm not going to fight with HR. Not that I'm invulnerable, but that I just don't care. I look forward to the day I leave whether by my choice or theirs.