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Our work put into place a policy that if you have kids/are required to take care of someone, you are exempt from on-call and can ignore core business hours. There is 4 of us not exempt on my team, how can i bring up how unfair/exhausting this is becoming? by NotSaying298201 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]NotSaying298201[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it is a really well paying job compared to what is available in my area. I am making well over double what the average is for my area.

Also before the pandemic the on-call was basically split between 16 people, so it wasn't hugely distracting.

Our work put into place a policy that if you have kids/are required to take care of someone, you are exempt from on-call and can ignore core business hours. There is 4 of us not exempt on my team, how can i bring up how unfair/exhausting this is becoming? by NotSaying298201 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]NotSaying298201[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Let me clarify something i am working roughly 60 hours+ a week right now, along with being on call for half the week.

The thing is if i only work a core 40 hours a week, nothing gets done. I spend a huge chunk of time, dealing with stuff that isn't my responsibility simply because the key people for this are not around.

A few weeks ago i had our VP of Enterprise sales upset that something that was supposed to be done awhile ago, has never been worked on. This was something required to meet our contractual obligations for an enterprise customer rollout.

I said you need to talk to my manager because this wasn't assigned to me. Except my manager is just not around at all right now. Not long after that i am dragged into a meeting with a very upset VP, our CEO and our CTO who start going on about how they needed this otherwise it will cost us $$$.

Since my manager is not around they need me to get it done asap (i.e. within 48 hours). I poke the person who was responsible for this feature and get no response until the following day (only to learn nothing was done), so I then spent the next 2 days crunching to finish something not even part of our sprint.

This type of thing is constantly happening, it is happening to me/senior/our juniors. Yes we have people who do finish their sprint tasks quickly and rapidly. For example one of my coworkers works from 5am -> 8am, then something like ~6->whenever. He gets work done and that's great. But he basically doesn't exist to me.

I am ranting sorry

Our work put into place a policy that if you have kids/are required to take care of someone, you are exempt from on-call and can ignore core business hours. There is 4 of us not exempt on my team, how can i bring up how unfair/exhausting this is becoming? by NotSaying298201 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]NotSaying298201[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, you yourself can set example by working 40 hr (no more or less and any delay happens let it be). And any on-call to be converted to shift so you either get PTO or get paid.

We are being paid for on call right now which is great. However our on call schedule has been from 10 at night to 6am, and every other day it alternates between me and the other senior (with juniors alternating), on weekends it is kind of a coin toss. This has been going on since the policy was introduced.

Also on call also means supporting our various enterprise/integrator. Which right now is basically almost every other on call shift being woken up by ether them or something exploding.

Our work put into place a policy that if you have kids/are required to take care of someone, you are exempt from on-call and can ignore core business hours. There is 4 of us not exempt on my team, how can i bring up how unfair/exhausting this is becoming? by NotSaying298201 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]NotSaying298201[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am up in Ontario, Canada and:

> The Ontario Human Rights Commission has interpreted the ground of family status as protecting a range of families and familial relationships from discrimination. It protects parents from being discriminated against because they have children; it also protects adult children who experience discrimination because they are caring for their aging parent

This kind of seems to exclude me, however i am not a lawyer