24x7 on-call rates

[Tim Sweetman]

On 2 Oct 2008, at 16:43, Raphael Mankin wrote:
> We  got few calls. It was possible to go a whole week without being
> called out. It helps when a person releasing  buggy software knows  
> that
> his colleagues will give him a good kicking in the morning.

In this country, it is wise to beat a programmer from time to time,  
in order to encourage the others to test their code more rigourously.

(After Voltaire).

HTH

t