>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Hughes <[email protected]> writes:

Doug> On 3/2/2012 9:39 AM, Matt Disney wrote:
>> Funny little issue.
>> 
>> I've always worked places with weekly oncall (or help desk) rotations 
>> and they always started on Monday, but in almost every case the new 
>> Monday oncall person was responsible for addressing non-critical 
>> events that came in over the weekend. That non-alignment of 
>> accountability IRL vs what is documented (i.e. the oncall rotation 
>> list) triggers my OCD. For that reason, I've often thought a rotation 
>> change on other weekdays would make more sense but have been unable to 
>> convince my peers of that in order to try it.
>> 
>> Can anyone comment on weekly oncall/helpdesk rotations that start on 
>> days other than Monday and how you liked it?

Doug> We have a pass-around oncall blackberry that is tied into the
Doug> corp mail system. When you have it, you're oncall. We swap it at
Doug> our weekly meeting, which currently happens on Wednesdays. It
Doug> works fine for us!

This only works when all your admins are at the same site.  How do you
handle multiple sites that are a large distance apart?  I admit that
when I'm NOT oncall, I can get asked to go into my local server room
if the oncall guy can't get there.  Part of the job and doesn't happen
often.

Just curious...

John
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