Being on Call
tyler.kim
Being on Call
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#2“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.”
“By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.”
“Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.”
Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers?
Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
Re: Being on Call
#3Being on call, this is more working actively and being attentive throughout almost all night!
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#4“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.” “By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.” “Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.” Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers? Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
It sounds like OP is fulfilling the conscription requirements of their nation, so by "I'm out", they mean finished their military service.
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#5What is the point of such a crazy schedule? If someone has to do a double-graveyard shift and is basically useless the rest of the week, why not just split that shift into two so you don't destroy all of the people who try to cover such shifts.
People can generally work 4-12 without much trouble or needing to recover after it other than weekends. Doing 12-8 might be an every other night kind of thing. Having a couple people handing those off might just cover it.
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#6What is the point of such a crazy schedule? If someone has to do a double-graveyard shift and is basically useless the rest of the week, why not just split that shift into two so you don't destroy all of the people who try to cover such shifts. People can generally work 4-12 without much trouble or needing to recover after it other than weekends. Doing 12-8 might be an every other night kind of thing. Having a couple…
It's part of the military training. Find your physical and mental limits and then break them.
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#7What is the point of such a crazy schedule? If someone has to do a double-graveyard shift and is basically useless the rest of the week, why not just split that shift into two so you don't destroy all of the people who try to cover such shifts. People can generally work 4-12 without much trouble or needing to recover after it other than weekends. Doing 12-8 might be an every other night kind of thing. Having a couple…
The author is in the military - I've read a fair few things by current and former service members and two of the most common themes are:
- the disregard for health and wellbeing of each soldier
- being required to do nonsensical things that are counterproductive and likely compromise medium-to-long term goals of the outfit you're attached to
So I agree with what you said - there is very likely a way to schedule these shifts so that these problems do not occur. The Army has little interest in this though, their requirement is that the shifts need to be covered and they currently are so there is no problem.
edit: updated comment to be country agnostic
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#8“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.” “By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.” “Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.” Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers? Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
It sounds like OP is fulfilling the conscription requirements of their nation, so by "I'm out", they mean finished their military service.
Ah, his next post talks about how he got done with his service: https://tyler.kim/army-review
Wasn’t sure if it was a career based on the context.
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#9What is the point of such a crazy schedule? If someone has to do a double-graveyard shift and is basically useless the rest of the week, why not just split that shift into two so you don't destroy all of the people who try to cover such shifts. People can generally work 4-12 without much trouble or needing to recover after it other than weekends. Doing 12-8 might be an every other night kind of thing. Having a couple…
The author is in the military - I've read a fair few things by current and former service members and two of the most common themes are: - the disregard for health and wellbeing of each soldier - being required to do nonsensical things that are counterproductive and likely compromise medium-to-long term goals of the outfit you're attached to So I agree with what you said - there is very likely a way to schedule these…
The author says he’s in the ROK (republic of Korea) army: https://tyler.kim/army-review
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#10“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.” “By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.” “Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.” Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers? Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
> Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
You sound disapproving, incredulous, or perhaps mystified, but you probably have similar dynamics in your own culture that you hardly notice.
Do you not see the parallels with crunch coding, or all nighter heroics at law firms and brokerages?
Or even the obesity that inevitably results from lifestyle advertising for junk food?