Work issue

mithrilG60 · 06-03-2010, 11:14 AM

Yes. I get paid a stipend for being available and bill overtime if called. The stipend is ridiculously low, $2/hr, but it is an extra $256 per week for doing basically nothing. The biggest impacts being on-call has on my life are that I can't drink, obviously, when as I need to be able to work if required and I need to be within an hour or so drive of my data centre. I'm typically on-call 2 weeks per month and can count on 1 hand the number of times I've been paged so far this year, it's not really a huge imposition.

06-03-2010, 11:14 AM	#14
mithrilG60 Feeling at Home Join Date: Dec 2008 First Name: Geoff Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 733 Trading: (2)	Re: Work issue Yes. I get paid a stipend for being available and bill overtime if called. The stipend is ridiculously low, $2/hr, but it is an extra $256 per week for doing basically nothing. The biggest impacts being on-call has on my life are that I can't drink, obviously, when as I need to be able to work if required and I need to be within an hour or so drive of my data centre. I'm typically on-call 2 weeks per month and can count on 1 hand the number of times I've been paged so far this year, it's not really a huge imposition.

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