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liveoneggs on Dec 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy

I am on vacation next week but am still the primary on-call.

I will take pages if I'm available or pass/escalate to the next guy if I'm not.

Since I'm on vacation it's understood to be a best effort.

Normally I would switch with someone but it's a busy vacation week so we just figure it out.

I took a two hour call the morning of thanksgiving, for reference.

jellicle on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

> I am on vacation next week but am still the primary on-call.

Whatever that is, it isn't vacation.

coldcode on Dec 10, 2014 | | [–]

It's like the difference between vacation and prison. In both case you are away from home.

philwelch on Dec 10, 2014 | | [–]

That sounds like a shitty vacation combined with doing a bad job at being oncall.

smackfu on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

Do you at least get compensated for on-call?

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