Refusing 24x7, What's Your Experience?

Question

Anyone out there refuse to go on 24x7? How'd you do it? What was your experience?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.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.Thank you

iceburgcrm · Accepted Answer

Say no it is not in your contract.Or ignore the page/call and tell them you are too sound of a sleeper.Don't let your co-workers decisions change your own because they may be looking for leadership from you.

NickRandom · Answer

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

thedevindevops · Answer

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...

solardev · Answer

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.

yuppie_scum · Answer

Quit.The job market is in the job seeker&rsquo;s favor. You can can certainly find a job with better understanding of work life balance.

Refusing 24x7, What's Your Experience?

Say no it is not in your contract.
Or ignore the page/call and tell them you are too sound of a sleeper.
Don't let your co-workers decisions change your own because they may be looking for leadership from you.

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.

Quit.
The job market is in the job seeker’s favor. You can can certainly find a job with better understanding of work life balance.