Should i go to sleep while working on call out of hours?

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Balloonflights said:
Bear in mind the 5 hour time difference.
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Oh my bad, I didn't see you were based in the UK!

Seems a bit strange to require someone to do that as a night shift though, surely it would be easier for everyone if that was handled locally.

Either way, they are taking the **** out of you! However, since you are UK based, I would guess* that UK employment laws apply, in which case you probably have more rights than if you were US based.



* I am not an employment lawyer, and emphasise that this is very much just a guess.
 
Haggisman said:
Oh my bad, I didn't see you were based in the UK!

Seems a bit strange to require someone to do that as a night shift though, surely it would be easier for everyone if that was handled locally.

Either way, they are taking the **** out of you! However, since you are UK based, I would guess* that UK employment laws apply, in which case you probably have more rights than if you were US based.



* I am not an employment lawyer, and emphasise that this is very much just a guess.
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It's fine don't worry.

We are the EMEA (80% of our role is UK PR and 20% is for the wider EMEA region) PR team for the resort. The team based in Orlando only handle domestic and Latin America PR.

Our contracts are bound under UK employment law.
 
Yes, and they're shafting you big time. Whenever i've been "on-call" i'm always offered a chunk on money for doing it and we'd probably only get one call every 3-4 nights.
 
Balloonflights said:
It's fine don't worry.

We are the EMEA (80% of our role is UK PR and 20% is for the wider EMEA region) PR team for the resort. The team based in Orlando only handle domestic and Latin America PR.

Our contracts are bound under UK employment law.
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Then they are willfilly breaking the working time directive. Look it up :)
 
As others have said, typically being on call means you'd get called out for what's effectively emergencies. You'd be able to go to sleep, but if the phone goes at 3am, then it means waking up and dealing with it. Typically you'd get paid a flat rate whilst being on call (due to the interruption to your time, remember you can't drink, go out for the day, if you went to the cinema it might mean cutting the film short etc) and then most decent employers would pay you a working rate for any work that you have to do whilst on call.

Responding to an average of 7 queries an hour is so far from being on call. How many queries an hour do you respond to when you're on a normal shift?
 
Balloonflights said:
I work in the UK PR office for a major theme park resort in Orlando as a press/PR/publicity manager. We have a rota (1 night at a time) for the out of hours on call officer for media enquiries that need urgent attention. We usually get around 2 calls an hour and 5 emails an hour to the office during the night. Some of them don't really need urgent attention and could wait until office hours but the on call officer is "not allowed to ignore any enquiry that comes through to the office while they are on call". Should I just stay up all night when I'm on call?
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As others have said, that isn't on call, that's a night shift!

I guess the real question you have to ask yourself is whether the salary is worth the disruption as you can't sleep with 7 emails and 2 calls an hour on average to deal with. If the cash is worth it, continue. if not, look for another job
 
You are getting taken up the back passage. I do anaesthetics on call in hospital and pre covid I'd often sleep for 4-6 hours. Night oncalls should have a lower level of intensity or it is shift work.
 
Balloonflights said:
I work in the UK PR office for a major theme park resort in Orlando as a press/PR/publicity manager. We have a rota (1 night at a time) for the out of hours on call officer for media enquiries that need urgent attention. We usually get around 2 calls an hour and 5 emails an hour to the office during the night. Some of them don't really need urgent attention and could wait until office hours but the on call officer is "not allowed to ignore any enquiry that comes through to the office while they are on call". Should I just stay up all night when I'm on call?
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When did you switch jobs?

Does your new employer have any odd 'polices' we should be aware of?
 
It's obviously not sustainable to me. How did it come about? Part of the initial job description/immediate responsibility, did they shoehorn it in as a oner one day, or was it slow creep?
 
ok, let's say you are 'on-call' on a Tuesday into Wednesday. Does this mean you work a normal day Tuesday, work all night Tuesday into Wednesday and then work a normal day Wednesday?

How long have you been doing this for?
 
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