Yes, or no, or meaningless question, depending on how you look at it.
I'm in embedded systems, not web programming or internet services or enterprise software. We're not "on call", ever. We don't carry pagers. On the other hand, when there's an issue, I'm available. I once got called in at 9 PM because we found a critical bug two days before we were shipping. That's happened once in eleven years, though. I accept that as part of the job as long as it's rare.
So: Is that "on call". In my mind, no, but you might interpret it differently.
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Yes, or no, or meaningless question, depending on how you look at it.
I'm in embedded systems, not web programming or internet services or enterprise software. We're not "on call", ever. We don't carry pagers. On the other hand, when there's an issue, I'm available. I once got called in at 9 PM because we found a critical bug two days before we were shipping. That's happened once in eleven years, though. I accept that as part of the job as long as it's rare.
So: Is that "on call". In my mind, no, but you might interpret it differently.