Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life

> your manager ... asks if you would like to join the rotation.

I don't think I've worked anywhere in the last decade where I was not part of the on-call rotation. It's been obligatory, maybe because I've worked at small-to-medium sized companies. I'm on call this week, in fact.

On-call weeks are my least favorite though. It's always nice when my rotation includes a holiday because our users are only active during normal business hours, so we never have issues when everyone's out of the office.

It all depends on a software one is supposed to be responsible for. For some, it'll at most a few pages a year, for others it'll be constant pain having to deal with problems.

I was on-call physical IT for a hospital system and I developed PTSD out of it.

Over ten years later, I still feel the effects. Every notification, every ring just brings life to a stop, for just a few moments.

I can agree, OP: on-call rosters change your life.

Oncall is complete bullshit and the fact that we have standardised this without Additional pay has greatly affected my life working in big tech.