Wow, real nanny state. A company I worked for gave us all Blackberries and we were on call 24/7. If the alarm went off there as a 20 person call list. Whoever answered would have to drive, some of them an hour or more, to the plant and let the cops in. Amazingly, it always cycled through all 20 and ended up with the president. They all claimed to be out of range. But I knew they did what I did and shut the damned thing off at night. OH, the the best part? There was no extra pay and no time off for the inconvenience.
That's my gripe too. I'll live with the on call part but I should get something for my inconvenience.
Some of us ‘accidentally’ loaded the batteries in our pagers backwards. This in the mid 90’s.
Our group wasn’t an ‘on call’ group and didn’t qualify for the ‘on call’ 100% bonus pool. And yet, nearly every weekend we’d get at least one ‘all hands on deck’ page.
_____ that. You want on call service? Pay us the 100% bonus pool on call money.