Oncall Burnout
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
Exhaustion caused by repeated pager duty, interrupted sleep, constant incident pressure, or poor production hygiene.
In plain English: Burnout caused by too much pager duty and incident stress.
Example: "Oncall burnout got worse because the same flaky subsystem paged every weekend."
Related Terms
- Incident Post-Mortem
- Nuclear Option
- Production Incident
- Site Reliability
- Toxic Productivity
- On-Call Culture
- Chaos Monkey Culture
- Heroic Engineering
- Run the Business
- Status Page Culture
- Downtime
- Service Level
- Compassion Fatigue
- Downtime Culture
- Failure Analysis
- Failure Mode
- Fault Tolerant Culture
- Framework Fatigue
- Game Day