On call?

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

wow....I'd have to say no. In my experience, being on call stinks. I used 
to think it would be cool.....man, I get a spiffy text-pager with newsfeed 
and the spiffy nextel i1000 plus, but it got old real quick (God I hope my 
boss is not reading this:)  )

Basically, depending on how stable the lab is, it could easily eat up a 
major part of your free time, and much of your sleep.

Keep in mind though, that you would only be on call for a single lab and 
with no automation, right? I am on call for a 6 state network with 
automated connection monitoring, so maybe my view is a little lopsided.


At 06:44 PM 3/13/00 -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>Anyone here ever work on an on-call basis?  What are your
>positive and negative feelings about it?  I've been asked whether
>I'd be willing to do on-call admin work for a campus computer
>lab[1].
>
>What's the usual pay rate for on-call hours?  I'm thinking about
>asking for 25%; is that high, low, or reasonable?
>
>I'm also thinking about insisting that they get me a pager.
>Being tethered to a particular location doesn't sound like a
>great idea to me.
>
>Comments?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben.
>
>[1] Yes, the same one that I rant about here on a regular
>basis.[2]
>
>[2] Yes, I'm considering refusing outright.
>
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