I've been reading/. for awhile and I'm glad to see this kind of story. I know we're all tech heads here but we don't live in a vacuum and nobody can ignore this kind of abuse.
I also work for a fortune 100 company and our agreement to our customer is a response back to them for severe outages within 15 minutets, 24x7. We get paid for two extra hours every weekday and 3 extra hours every weekend day that we have the pager, whether it ever goes off or not. If we DO end up getting paged, we get additional pay for the time spent with the customer. We rotate the pager throughout the team as well so no one's on call for more than a week at a time.
As a matter of fact, this past weekend I got paged at 3:00am and was on the phone with the customer for the next twelve hours! Thank god for that extra pay!
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Who the hell cares and why would you install windoze anyway?
I've been reading /. for awhile and I'm glad to see this kind of story. I know we're all tech heads here but we don't live in a vacuum and nobody can ignore this kind of abuse.
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Keep up the good work
That link works for me...
I also work for a fortune 100 company and our agreement to our customer is a response back to them for severe outages within 15 minutets, 24x7. We get paid for two extra hours every weekday and 3 extra hours every weekend day that we have the pager, whether it ever goes off or not. If we DO end up getting paged, we get additional pay for the time spent with the customer. We rotate the pager throughout the team as well so no one's on call for more than a week at a time.
As a matter of fact, this past weekend I got paged at 3:00am and was on the phone with the customer for the next twelve hours! Thank god for that extra pay!
Hope this helps.
It's cool stories like this that keep me reading /.. Thanks for posting this one guys.
Who's Microsoft and why should we care about them?
This is "News for Nerds"?