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

Wow! It's amazing - I had no clue so many people got incentives to carry the pager around! We have a team of 25+ developers, supporting a 24x6 worldwide system, and management requires everyone to carry the pager all around - plus, our support system is not very refined - it just sends all problems to everyone, which means everyone gets some 10 pages every night, most of which are junk status messages from servers - take a look and fall back to sleep. and of course, we don't get paid a cent extra.

The only way we beat the system is claim the pager ran out of juice just when we get caught at not responding to it!

cheers :)

"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 Thu Apr 15 2004 - 15:32:40 CEST