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

At my company, working on-call is a choice. They used to pay 1 hour out of 4 while on on-call shift. We had to carry a cell phone, and being available to receive calls and connect to work in less than 1 hour. It used to be a reward. Then they choose to pay a fix amount of money (similar to the 1 out of 4), depending on the project and budget. The problem was that they began to ask for *monitoring* runs, that is not an on-call activity. And because of business issues (budget), there were some reported bugs that made the application fail every night.

I think that oncall work should be optional and well rewarded. And the application should be in a maturity level that could fail only 1 out of 3 nights.

"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 Fri Apr 09 2004 - 15:42:08 CDT