A new on-call policy was sprung on all engineers without any warning. Engineers are on-call for a week at a time about every 4-5 weeks. During this time, you are likely to be woken up by alerts that will auto-resolve moments later.
My job description and offer letter didn't include this duty. I have a real life, a family, and health concerns that make this extremely burdensome to me. Where does Honor get off thinking that they can steal almost 8 weeks - or two months - of my sleep? I now have entire weeks where I cannot be fully present in the lives of my children, my wife, or my church.
The arrogance is astounding.
If these alerts were limited to true emergencies, which hardly ever happen, then I might be able to swallow it. But waking me, my baby, and my wife up for automated monitoring alerts that autoresolve moments later? This is totally unacceptable. Get it together Honor.
Honor is a good place to work. But it's not that good.
