Re: What's your compensation for carrying a pager???
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:35:38 -0600
Message-ID: <Fcwfc.341$kb.15390_at_news.uswest.net>
"Kundan" <ksen_at_caip.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
news:538ff45e.0404150532.17a71f6a_at_posting.google.com...
> 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 :)
>
It is not so amazing if you were to look at each person's total compensation
package. Also, it depends on their job responsibilities, since people who
created a system should not be paid more if they have to spend time fixing
it.
Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 15:35:38 CEST