“That’s my gripe too. I’ll live with the on call part but I should get something for my inconvenience. “
I’d have loved to be #1 on the list if they simply paid for my time. But they didn’t. The phone, which I never used, was my pay.
There was a drafter, an ex-cop who lived five minutes away. He’d had a phone and was happy to let the cops in. (The false alarms ran several a week and the system wasn’t fixed because they didn’t own the building and were planning on moving.) During an economy move, they took his phone away. So he said, “fluck them.” and wouldn’t take the duty anymore. So, the president who lived 2 hours away always ended up driving in. He was always p@ssed about it but nothing ever changed while I was there.
In city of my employer, my employer gets fined if alarms go off for no reason (usually an employee working on a weekend hasn’t set it correctly).