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That instant-fear reaction to common stimuli is a symptom of PTSD, and is the reason that I flat-out refused pager duty after the first ~6 months. This system s
by devrandomguy 9y ago
That instant-fear reaction to common stimuli is a symptom of PTSD, and is the reason that I flat-out refused pager duty after the first ~6 months. This system should be considered a workplace hazard; it has a measurable detrimental effect on employee health, and not all employees recover afterwards, as you and I are discovering for ourselves.
Systems like pager duty should be reserved for temporary crises, and should only notify people during their work hours. If a company can't afford three emergency-ops people, then they are probably overestimating the cost of downtime. If the company expects more than one incident per year, then they have a QA problem, not an ops problem.
- madaxe_again 9y agoI tried chatting to my doctor about a referral for something to help me sleep and stop having anxiety attacks that'd make me vomit for weeks and lose 20lbs at a time a few years back - he was adamant that PTSD only comes from warzones, and that working with computers cannot possibly be stressful, try being a doctor, you bloody millennials know nothing about stress try working for a living stop wasting my time. I ultimately left my business, and haven't stopped travelling (running away) in a year. From what I gather my non-technical cofounder is finding things hard since my departure - good - serves him right for putting the golden goose in a battery cage and giving it shock therapy for a decade.