Being on call sucks

[slag]

to be fair, its only 12:41 here, but I've been on this damn call since 10:00 and there is no end in sight yet.

I did the same thing Monday night from 9pm to 4 am.

Last night was good, only 3 page outs

I guess I shouldnt bitch too much since it only happens once every 2 months or so, but it really throws my sleep schedule out of whack and I dont get to see my kids much for a week or so.

I work in the midrange software application support group for a telecommunications company supporting applications such as iplanet, apache, weblogic, websphere, etc.

 

Yes it does.

<----EMS Worker

 

[n0cmonkey]

Get a new job.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Get a new job.

If I were single, I would in a heartbeat, but as it is, I support my wife and 2 small children and they need stability right now, not someone who quit his job because he doesnt like part of it.

 

[EGGO]

It doesn't get ANY easier when you're a maintenence supervisor of a plant.

 

[IEC]

Ouch, I'll probably have to be on call if I really want to pursue medicine as a career...

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: EGGO
It doesn't get ANY easier when you're a maintenence supervisor of a plant.

I bet not. I actually have it pretty good, I just wish I were sleeping. The good side of this is that if I am doing this for a few more hours, I'm going to just call in and work from home tomorrow.

I give the pager up at 10:30 Friday.. woo woo.

I think an EMT would really suck to be oncall or a Doctor.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Sorry to bring a dead thread back to life, however I must vent ....


ARRRRRGHHHHHH

I am supposed to be at work tomorrow at 8am (central time) ...

Most of the time, when we are on call (one 7 day week) every 12 weeks .. we get like 0 or 1 pages for the whole week.


Well, I have had this damn pager since Wednesday, and the damn thing has gone off 8 times .. I think I have a good 8 hours logged on VPN and in the support boxes I ssh into .....

I don't mind getting paged a few times in the week, but every single day multiple times sucks (especially the 3:18AM, 4:23AM, and the 5:04AM pages) ....

I think I'm going to need to show up a bit late tomorrow since I know I will probably continue to get paged, and I need to sleep ...

Also, I am not thinking about getting another job, 90% of the job I have, I like, this is part of the 10% that irks me ...

OK, I feel better now that I have gotten that out of my system.
BEING ON CALL IS SUCK!

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Get a new job.

If I were single, I would in a heartbeat, but as it is, I support my wife and 2 small children and they need stability right now, not someone who quit his job because he doesnt like part of it.

I know the feeling, I worked from 6:30 friday morning to 7:45 friday afternoon (no breaks other than bathroom), came home and rescued my wife to take care of our 20mo. old who had a stomach virus of some kind. (she's been fine all day since she woke up this morning) I stayed up with her till around 5a.m. this morning (when she finally seemed to get over whatever it was she had in her system), then got paged at 7:00a.m and had to leave at 08:45a.m. and didn't get back until 3:30p.m. and now I've got insomnia. grrrrrrr, I had better not have to do anything else today (I can't believe it's already sunday here)

 

[Squisher]

Die-Repairman covering a production department.

If it's broke I gotta fix it. Machine being down is a bad thing.

 

[darkamulets]

I know the feeling, it's Sat 5:15Am what am I doing? Woken up at like 3AM with a call for support with some lines that went down in Brazil.

 

[Orsorum]

Community Assistant for a college apartment complex; most of the calls involve busting up parties. It sucks when you're standing there watching a stream of absolutely beautiful women walk by glaring at you because you busted their party. Even worse when there's a stream of parties. At least they're getting cited this year, maybe we won't have too many after this quarter.

 

[Mucho]

I did it for three month after that they offer me the job with a 15% raise full time but I declined. The thing that really bothered me was when you get paiged call and get someone else or voicemail only to have they called again just as you fall back sleeping.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
Community Assistant for a college apartment complex; most of the calls involve busting up parties. It sucks when you're standing there watching a stream of absolutely beautiful women walk by glaring at you because you busted their party. Even worse when there's a stream of parties. At least they're getting cited this year, maybe we won't have too many after this quarter.

Couldn't you just suggest that they turn the volume down a little bit? Perhaps move into a more relaxed atmosphere like your apartment?

 

[rh71]

Does your salary suck ? Most people in IT-support get overpaid most of the time. It's when sh!t hits the fan that they actually earn the money they are making. I wouldn't complain unless you're making $25k.

And yes, I know how it sucks to be up at night stressing out.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: rh71
Does your salary suck ? Most people in IT-support get overpaid most of the time. It's when sh!t hits the fan that they actually earn the money they are making. I wouldn't complain unless you're making $25k.

And yes, I know how it sucks to be up at night stressing out.

mine does, $30k. and even worse still I only get .22 cents a mile

 

[jhu]

remember, there are always people worse off than you. fortunately, i am not one of them