Question about being on-call (networking job)

bruceleejr · 05-02-2009, 06:39 PM

When the job desciription says " you must be on-call 8-5 mon-fri "

What if you get no calls~?? Do you still get paid~??

OR what if your done working @ a site & you get no calls after that~?? Do you still get paid~??

Im trying to figure out how this works

I want to get a career in working w/ servers

JeffreyNYA · 05-04-2009, 10:42 AM

Why don't you post the add. Hard to know what they mean just by this. Is it full time, contract.

bruceleejr · 05-04-2009, 04:48 PM

lol well im just saying because usually a bunch of network admins jobs or sys admin jobs ive seen they said " on call 24-7 " or w/e .. so im assuming that u get paid until work time is over~?? even when u got no calls~??

JeffreyNYA · 05-08-2009, 01:47 PM

Well ya, if you are on call you get paid for the time you are on call. Sometime companies will pay you to just be on call. Not sure how popular that is anymore.

tech313 · 05-12-2009, 01:34 PM

Most likely a sys admin position will be salaried. You get X thousand a year to do everything needed which is to be on call the specified hours and fix whatever comes up. If you are THE admin then you just call your techs when something goes wrong and make them fix it ;)

**bilbus** · 05-14-2009, 11:34 AM

My on call is a flat rate, called or not.

05-02-2009, 06:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
bruceleejr Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 86 OS: winxp sp2	Question about being on-call (networking job) When the job desciription says " you must be on-call 8-5 mon-fri " What if you get no calls~?? Do you still get paid~?? OR what if your done working @ a site & you get no calls after that~?? Do you still get paid~?? Im trying to figure out how this works I want to get a career in working w/ servers

05-04-2009, 10:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
JeffreyNYA Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 38 OS: XP Pro SP2	Re: Question about being on-call (networking job) Why don't you post the add. Hard to know what they mean just by this. Is it full time, contract.

05-04-2009, 04:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
bruceleejr Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 86 OS: winxp sp2	Re: Question about being on-call (networking job) lol well im just saying because usually a bunch of network admins jobs or sys admin jobs ive seen they said " on call 24-7 " or w/e .. so im assuming that u get paid until work time is over~?? even when u got no calls~??

05-08-2009, 01:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
JeffreyNYA Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 38 OS: XP Pro SP2	Re: Question about being on-call (networking job) Well ya, if you are on call you get paid for the time you are on call. Sometime companies will pay you to just be on call. Not sure how popular that is anymore.

05-12-2009, 01:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
tech313 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NC, USA Posts: 149 OS: XP Pro SP2	Re: Question about being on-call (networking job) Most likely a sys admin position will be salaried. You get X thousand a year to do everything needed which is to be on call the specified hours and fix whatever comes up. If you are THE admin then you just call your techs when something goes wrong and make them fix it ;)

05-14-2009, 11:34 AM	#6 (permalink)
bilbus TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 950 OS: OS2 Warp	Re: Question about being on-call (networking job) My on call is a flat rate, called or not.