Ask HN: Does your on-call rotation suck? Can I join it?

6 asciifree 5 7/9/2025, 11:53:59 AM

Hi HN

I'm doing some field research on unique ways on-call rotations can be unhealthy. It would be great to hear some anecdata from the community about /why/ you feel your on-call rotation sucks - and I figure it would be even better to experience it firsthand :)

I do understand asking to join/shadow your rotation is probably not practical however I am 100% serious and happy to sign whatever.

Cheers & may your pager stay silent

Comments (5)

Quitschquat · 1h ago

Ask the poor bastards at Discovery

tra3 · 2h ago

You know it's broken, everyone knows it's broken but it keeps alerting.

andrewmcwatters · 1h ago

And you're allocated the time for on-call, salaried for it, but never assigned the task to fix the damn thing. So instead, you and your team burn maybe-I-have-to-get-up-at-night-time instead of definitely-attempting-to-fix-it-time.

tra3 · 34m ago

It's like hitting snooze on the alarm clock. It's an illusion. You gonna have to wake up. You're not getting any more sleep.

I stopped hitting snooze as I got older. I either wake up or give up and sleep in..

johncole · 1h ago

Doing some customer discovery?