Anyone out there refuse to go on 24x7? How'd you do it? What was your experience?<p>US here. They flipped 24x7 on 3 of us on our team, no warning, 3PM Friday, before week long holiday. I'm furious and I'm trying to figure out best way to proceed.<p>I didn't say "no" on Friday, even though I'm perfectly comfortable saying it, because it would have screwed my 2 coworkers over (who were equally undeserving of the decision), so trying to figure out strategy for when we get back. Would love to hear about your experiences.<p>Thank you
Say no it is not in your contract.<p>Or ignore the page/call and tell them you are too sound of a sleeper.<p>Don't let your co-workers decisions change your own because they may be looking for leadership from you.
I'm confused - Do you mean you were asked to work/be on-call 24 hours per day, seven days per week? If so - hell no. Hopefully I misunderstood what you meant by 24x7! [Edit to update] If that is in fact the case, I would suggest you ask for all of the Directors' cell-phone numbers and call them at 2am or 4am etc and if they don't answer then ask them why they expect you to do something they don't do themselves but I honestly think I must be misunderstanding the 24x7 bit
That isn't in my contract but if you want to talk about contract re-negotiation, I'm up for talking about all those inflation-busting raises I've missed over the years...
If they're paying you time and a half for every minute you're on call just waiting around that week, I'd consider it. Otherwise I'd refuse that if I were you. No job is worth your sanity like that. Leave if you must and find someone who respects you more.