I’ve been up for an hour and a half. This is because I’m on call and my company can’t be arsed to get the people who deploy the software to pause the monitoring program when they’re deploying the new versions of stuff (so I’m getting alerts when they take the old version down and then an “everything’s okay” alert when the new version comes online).
It’d be one thing if there were no way to do this, but there is. The software allows you to “pause” the monitoring for various lengths of time. This is a thing that was created basically for this purpose. I don’t know why we refuse to use it.
Tonight I was woken up at ~3:30 am, I’d have gone back to bed after about 10 minutes but the deployments mean the on call phone will just randomly go off (it has a loud siren as all notification sounds). Yesterday I was up between 1:30-3:00 am because a server was inaccessible, and apparently the dev on call (me) needs to be alerted so they can wake up the IT on call person who is the only one who can actually do anything about it. Saturday-Sunday I was up at 1:30-3:00, and then at 4, and at 6 for various problems (I can’t sleep during the day so I was up for the rest of the day).
Friday 11 am is when I go off of on call. I’m going to sleep so hard Friday night.
Sorry for the rant. I know I follow a lot of parents, and some follow me back, and this may all seem minor in comparison to some parenting challenges, especially special needs parenting, but this is a job, the bonus for being on call is insultingly small ($150, and I can’t leave my house except to go to work for an entire week), it’s high stress, unappreciated, and in 18 years, I’ll be shocked if the company still exists (it’s the nature of the industry, not a comment on the company).
This job is why we’re not moving forward in the foster process right now, in case anyone was wondering. I need to move to a company that is more family friendly where I’d be able to take a couple days off for a new placement, at my current company having your own kids is considered a hindrance (the two highest execs are unmarried and childless, so they put in 12 hour days), the added responsibility that comes with having foster children (additional time off for appointments, new placements happening with short notice, odds of having more than one placement a year, etc) would utter kill my reputation as a hard worker. I need to move to a family friendly, or at least family tolerant company, and I need another year or two in at my current place for my resume.
