Re: What's your compensation for carrying a pager???

Well... When I started at this company we shared the time on 3 persons, so we had to be on call every third week.. Then we had around $5.5/hr on outofoffice time... And $40/hr when the phone rang. 1:st hr paid in full no matter if we solved the problem in 5 minutes or in 1 hr. Same if we had to log on remotely from home. If we had to go to the office we got 3 hrs paid directly ( no matter if it took 5 minutes or 3 hrs ). If it took longer than the time we already got paid for it was $40/hr... And we had to be available 24hrs a day from Monday 5am to Saturday 4.30pm ( we didn't have to be on call after that since there were no production then )

But then we had to be able to either get logged in or be at the factory within 1 hr.

The the factory was sold and we got another agreement that gaves us $1.85/hr no matter if we have to go in or not. Now we don't have to be on call at all since everything has been running so smoothly and we haven't got a single call for over a year that is systemsrelated ( databases and servers ) and the IT support has been outsourced.... :-)

/Jari

"Richard" <pager_boy_at_spamex.com> wrote in message news:eI6bc.9796$Ig.3374_at_pd7tw2no...
> My employer currently pays me $1/hour when I carry a pager. I have to
> carry the pager every fourth week. The problem is that my employer
> insists that I be available when I'm carrying the pager. So, for $1/hr
> they expect me to remain within pager range, remain sober, and be
> available to come to work. That really sucks on weekends. No going
> to the beach (out of pager range) or out to a friend's cottage (out of
pager
> range), etc. Declining to carry the pager is NOT an option.
>
> I'm curious what compensation others get and more importantly, what's
> your employers expectation of your availability when you're on-call?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 05 2004 - 15:47:32 CEST