Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Teachi

2008-10-02 Thread Léon Brocard
2008/9/29 Léon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. Teachi 29-31 Parkway London,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] October social - Thurs 2 Oct - Bridge House, SE1

2008-10-02 Thread Léon Brocard
2008/9/25 Kake L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! For the October social, we're going back to the Bridge House, which is the Adnams place at the south end of Tower Bridge. We have the upstairs function room booked from 6:30pm. The London.pm October Social Meeting is today. See you at the

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:36:20 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My employers are trying to come up with a clear remuneration scheme for the 24x7 team, after it was accidentally shrouded in mystery for a number of years, and

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:57 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:36:20 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Actually, it's a whole 24x7h at a stretch on call. This rotates through the team members, so we're on call one week in 9 at the moment. We've all had to sign an exemption to

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:36:20 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My employers are trying to come up with a clear remuneration scheme for the 24x7 team,

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Shiels
Raphael Mankin wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:57 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:36:20 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Offer them +20% for doing a night shift and see how that goes down. (Wait, 'goes down' maybe not the ideal phrase...) We got paid 0.5 days for each week

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: Actually, it's a whole 24x7h at a stretch on call. This rotates through the team members, so we're on call one week in 9 at the moment. We've all had to sign an exemption to the working hours directive for the weeks that we're on

Re: 24x7 on-call rates

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Sweetman
On 2 Oct 2008, at 16:43, Raphael Mankin wrote: We got few calls. It was possible to go a whole week without being called out. It helps when a person releasing buggy software knows that his colleagues will give him a good kicking in the morning. In this country, it is wise to beat a