Has anyone ever worked at a job, where being on-call was never part of the original work agreement but somewhere along the line someone tried to make you an on-call person on the weekend, or some other time during off-hours?
I do level 2 support in IT. I also do some help desk work. As part of the help desk coverage we have an emergency pager that is worn during off hours, incase an outtage occurs and someone calls the help desk to report it. The on-call person then has to contact the proper person and work with them to fix the problem. Typically the pager receives about 5 calls a week.
I was never a part of this rotation and I have worked here for over a year. Recently I changed from contractor status hourly paid to full time employee salary paid and my boss told me that my job description would still be the same.
Now some of my coworkers are trying to get me to share the pager and work me into the rotation. I told them all that I wouldn't. Originally, a few level 3 people shared the pager but eventually that responsibility got passed down to one level 2 person who has worn the pager for several months straight and he is sick of it. He talked 2 other level 2 people into sharing the pager with him and now they are trying to talk me into it too.
Thankfully management hasn't told me that I need to do this yet, and until I hear from them there is no way I'm stepping in, as much as I love my coworkers. Even if management said I needed to, I would still fight it.
I do level 2 support in IT. I also do some help desk work. As part of the help desk coverage we have an emergency pager that is worn during off hours, incase an outtage occurs and someone calls the help desk to report it. The on-call person then has to contact the proper person and work with them to fix the problem. Typically the pager receives about 5 calls a week.
I was never a part of this rotation and I have worked here for over a year. Recently I changed from contractor status hourly paid to full time employee salary paid and my boss told me that my job description would still be the same.
Now some of my coworkers are trying to get me to share the pager and work me into the rotation. I told them all that I wouldn't. Originally, a few level 3 people shared the pager but eventually that responsibility got passed down to one level 2 person who has worn the pager for several months straight and he is sick of it. He talked 2 other level 2 people into sharing the pager with him and now they are trying to talk me into it too.
Thankfully management hasn't told me that I need to do this yet, and until I hear from them there is no way I'm stepping in, as much as I love my coworkers. Even if management said I needed to, I would still fight it.
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