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

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Sounds like an unpaid nightshift to me, not on in my books. Don't know what the legalities of it are, probably depends on your contract... In any case if you don't get time to rest in between day shifts and night shifts then that's dangerous so I'd have thought it shouldn't be allowed regardless of what your contract says.
 
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Stumble Bum said:
Well did you not sort this out 6 months ago on mumsnet?

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_b...o-to-sleep-while-working-on-call-out-of-hours

Or how about the student room today?

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6875042

or maybe this one from thestudentroom 6 months ago

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6589482

So many new accounts keep popping up on Ocuk and posting silly new troll/bot threads.
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:p

Ban for not being original or amusing.
 
Hotwired said:
:p

Ban for not being original or amusing.
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Stumble Bum said:
Well did you not sort this out 6 months ago on mumsnet?

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_b...o-to-sleep-while-working-on-call-out-of-hours

Or how about the student room today?

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6875042

or maybe this one from thestudentroom 6 months ago

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6589482

So many new accounts keep popping up on Ocuk and posting silly new troll/bot threads.
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Ayahuasca said:
This reeks of a previous thread - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...cial-distancing.18911897/page-2#post-34347433
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You don't say ;)

It's all a bit of made up fun, we will lock it shortly, just like all the previous threads.
 
On call means you get paid for the full day and answer a phone in an emergency. Not do constant work.

They owe you loads of overtime pay.
 
Troll poster is gonna troll post. Incidentally I work in management within a major UK theme/visitor attraction, working very closely with our pr team, and this model of work is highly unlikely to exist in the first place.
 
Not all industries does on call =/= working all night.

If I'm on-call, it means it's an out of normal working hour shift but you're expected to work throughout.
For me, non-resident on-call would be as most of you are describing.
 
Balloonflights said:
Well the 7 enquires is just an average, sometimes it's less, occasionally more and very very really none.

Our employer calls it's being on call and not paid any extra for it, we are salaried if that makes any difference.
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But do you have to continually monitor these e-mails?

Being on call would be (IMO) more like these e-mails coming in, most of them not urgent, but perhaps the odd one does need a reply and if so someone in the US office would phone you to get you out of bed to deal with that specific urgent one.

Being on call shouldn't mean you're actively monitoring some inbox, that should be someone actually doing that during working horse, rather you're available (as in at home, near a computer) so that someone can phone you if something urgent is required.

It isn't clear, from what you've said, how this is working exactly... are you literally staying up checking e-mails, or periodically checking them etc... you shouldn't really need to do that, you should simply be available to be called.

edit - ah FFS, this was some troll poster.
 
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