I'm on call 24x7 as a requirement of employment. I'd love to sleep through the night every night, but I cannot. A lot of you will see a simple solution -- change jobs!
It's Freeper Myopia run rampant.
They'd probably be the very first to complain if the FreeRepublic crashed on Friday night and John Robinson waited until the next business day to fix it.
"I'm on call 24x7 as a requirement of employment. I'd love to sleep through the night every night, but I cannot. A lot of you will see a simple solution -- change jobs! It's Freeper Myopia run rampant."
It could be Freeper common sense, rearing its "ugly" head.
If you are being run into the ground by an employer, you SHOULD get another job.
If on the other hand you are being compensated grandly for your infinite availability, I guess it's okay. Merry Christmas...oh, wait, you won't be getting that day off, will you? Sorry, I guess that was cruel. Well, you can celebrate Christmas later, on your vacation...oh, wait, you couldn't get vacations, because you have to always be on call....
You know, brain surgeons take breaks now and then. I hear the president of the US even does once in a while.....
I'm afraid that is the answer: if you don't like being on call 24x7, then you need to change jobs. If you like being on call at all times, then realize that your big important self isn't thereby privileged to annoy others with your big important phone calls. In particular, you don't have a "right" to bring wireless devices into establishments that don't allow them. If that's an intolerable hardship, change jobs. If it isn't, then shut up and go where your annoying devices are welcome.