IT worker question

[rh71]

Had in the past with no extra compensation. IT people shouldn't be paid extra to do this IMO. Just think about the regular hours in which you do absolutely nothing. I'm sure the managers are.

 

[Electric Amish]

Yes because some of the applications I support are used 24/7 in our Minnesota plant and are also used in our France locations.

I don't get anything extra.

 

[TallBill]

At my old job I made $500 a week for on-call and we rotated every 5th week.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Network engineer, on call day and night and weekends. Not compensated for it.

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Originally posted by: daveshel
Not only am I on call and not compensated by virtue of the 'professional' exepmtion to the wage-hour law, but I have to carry a cell phone on which I'm not allowed to make any personal calls.

That sucks....they should at least let you make personal calls up to your monthly minute limit. See if they will start letting you expense your personal cell up to an equal amount of minutes for what they have on the work phone.

They will, but at a rate several times higher than it actually costs.

 

[thomsbrain]

I'm not in IT, but my hourly job does require an on-call rotation.

When we're on-call, we receive no extra compensation, but if we actually get called out, then it is overtime from the moment the pager goes off until we arrive back at home, plus mileage. That's assuming you're already working your 40 hours that week. I request days surrounding every single holiday as vacation so they won't schedule me at those time. Then most of the time, I don't actually take the vacation, but at least I'm not on-call on my extended weekends.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: Rage187
I carry it 7 days a week 24 hour coverage. I got a bump in pay up front and get over time for any calls worked. I'm also salaried but not exempt.

I forgot to include that I get one extra day of vacation for every holiday I carry the phone. The only exception is Christmas since we are absolutely closed that day.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

unless your salary is significantly more than what a peer is earning in other company. I would renegotiate your deals. On call with no extra pay is bullshit.

 

[KMFJD]

I was on call for a couple of weeks, we where given about $200 a week compensation , plus any overtime hours. I hated it, absolutely drove me insane, i will never do it again, not for any amount of money that my company would offer me.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
unless your salary is significantly normal than what a peer is earning in other company.

What?

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
unless your salary is significantly normal than what a peer is earning in other company. I would renegotiate your deals. On call with no extra pay is bullshit.

Amen brotha.

My time is worth a lot more than the peanuts they try to give you.

 

[DefDC]

I've got a weird Tier 1,2, and 3 IT job at a bank that has about 1500 employees... I'm on call 24/7, but it's not particularly abused. If we work a mountain of hours we get comp time. No cash. Luckily we're pretty loose about keeping track of time, so every month or so I take a "comp day". If the work as been berserk enough for the execs and managers to notice we might get a few days.

I'm always on the fence about whether I'd rather have cash. All the cash in the world doesn't give you the free time to spend it...

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
unless your salary is significantly normal than what a peer is earning in other company.

What?

typo i meant "more" don't know where normal arrived from.

 

[Bacstar]

I'm an hourly employee, and I'm on-call on Saturdays and on certain holidays when the office is open for Customer Service. Mainly, I just carry a company celphone around, and should be in-town in case I have to come in.

In ways of compensation, I get 2-hours of "stand-by" time, but I have to be available for the 6-8 hours the office is open. If I have to be called in, I get a minimum 4-hour call-in time. It can be at over-time or regular depending on if I put in a 40-hour work week.

Out of the 2 years I've worked here, I've never had to go into the office, and I've gotten just a handful of calls which were quick and easy to fix over the phone or by vpn'ing from home. No complaints and it's like getting 4 extra hours for free each pay period.

 

[melchoir]

On call 24/7. I'm one of two on the call list. I'm top level support (Sys Engineer) so we generally don't receive more than 1 call a week as it has to go through a chain of lower support.

I receive no additional compensation for this as I'm a salaried employee and this is a job expectation.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: rh71
Had in the past with no extra compensation. IT people shouldn't be paid extra to do this IMO. Just think about the regular hours in which you do absolutely nothing. I'm sure the managers are.

Heh. My department is understaffed to the point where downtime is practically non-existent. If I'm lucky, I might be able to keep the request backlog to just 1 week

Best of all, I get to look "forward" to getting support calls on my unpaid personal cell phone whenever something breaks and the bozos that work off-shift support can't figure out how to fix it :|

 

[Apathetic]

I'm a computer programmer and I'm on call 24/7. I don't receive any extra compensation per se (I'm salaried), but if I'm up working in them middle of the night, nobody gives me any hassle about coming in late or leaving early the next day.

I don't have to deal with it very often because all my programs are daemons/services that auto-recover. It was a complete pain in the ass getting them all to that point, but I think it was time well spent.

Dave