no sleep while on call...

**outofthebox** · 07-13-2007, 11:16 PM

Do any of you work jobs where you must work 'on call' for a couple days or even a week at a time? I'm a security administrator and I'm in a rotation where i take 1 week ever 4 weeks and I answer all of our emergency phone calls and alerts when servers have issues....i don't sleep for this entire week....and I'm salaried with no over time...the only benefit is in the week following my on call, i'm allowed to take off as many hours as I had to work outside of normal business hours. Anybody else work in a field where 'on call' is necessary? whats your experience?

**unclemoney** · 07-14-2007, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by outofthebox

Do any of you work jobs where you must work 'on call' for a couple days or even a week at a time? I'm a security administrator and I'm in a rotation where i take 1 week ever 4 weeks and I answer all of our emergency phone calls and alerts when servers have issues....i don't sleep for this entire week....and I'm salaried with no over time...the only benefit is in the week following my on call, i'm allowed to take off as many hours as I had to work outside of normal business hours. Anybody else work in a field where 'on call' is necessary? whats your experience?

Ouch, sounds harsh, good luck bro. No experiences there...

**af_firedawg** · 07-18-2007, 10:14 AM

I feel ur pain man! Im a firefighter\EMT! I work alot of 48 hour shifts on a BUSY truck! I slept 2 hours last night!

**Sir Lifts-a-lot** · 07-18-2007, 01:36 PM

Oh, so you're one of those computer help people.... Well you shouldn't be able to sleep, and you know why?.... Cause our fukin V drive never is accessible!!! Damn you guys, lol!

**outofthebox** · 07-18-2007, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sir Lifts-a-lot

Oh, so you're one of those computer help people.... Well you shouldn't be able to sleep, and you know why?.... Cause our fukin V drive never is accessible!!! Damn you guys, lol!

yeah, i agree, those guys shouldn't sleep....but my job is security of the network, i'm past the days of help desk and local administration...i do the risk assessment and vulnerability/pen testing for Florida's Department of Health and a few other state agencies...my on call consists of "oh crap, we just exposed half the database to an attacker" or "foooook, half of the mail cluster is spewing spam and i can't log into the admin account anymore" and i have to run anywhere they call me to do the forensics and deal with the agencies that keep track of that kind of thing (homeland security, fbi, cia, etc)...high stress, no room for error

**Sir Lifts-a-lot** · 07-18-2007, 07:21 PM

so what ur saying is the white, 19year old kid with dreads and the nose ring has to come back so I can access the V drive and get my pop3 mail working again?!? ARGH YOU COMPUTER PEOPLE!!!! All I want to do is download porn at work and not get caught. How hard is that?!?