CRLLS
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Years ago I worked for a certain big company. Every computer shop I had ever worked in had rotating on-call lists in case something went wrong at night or over the weekend. People were free to trade on-call weeks as long as they kept the manager notified. Worker also knew the on-call weeks at least 3 months ahead of time so they could schedule around them or arrange a swap earlier.
But, this mega-corp insisted we all be on-call all the time. I protested. Not even my doctor is on call all the time. His practice rotated the on-call physician. Then we were told we could not go far from home or be out of pager range (yes, pagers) even on weekends, just in case we were needed. We needed to be 100% reachable all the time, and no more than a 1.5 hour drive away from the work site. My partner (among others) had no problems with this. He even bought several extra sets of rechargeable batteries for his company pager so it would always be on. Me? I found another job. So I suppose that in the eyes of many who worked there, I was the slacker, the lazy bum, and the anti-work guy.
DW was a supervisor in accounting of a manufacturing company when a new boss came in. This was 1990-something. He had his assistant ask every one of his reports for their cell phone number in case something came up outside of office hours and he needed to contact them. When the assistant came to DW, she said I don't have a cell phone. Well, this didn't go over too well. The boss called her in and asked if this was true. She said yes. He replied with "We will get you one" She promptly replied that wasn't necessary. Her time away from the office was hers, not the company's. And that's the way it was left. I married a girl with moxie.