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Ask HN: How does your team decide who works oncall on Christmas?
If you're on a software team that maintains cloud services or other infrastructure that needs to keep running 24x7, how does your team decide who is going to work oncall for shifts like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, or other times when most people don't want to be oncall?
Is it just a top-down manual manager decision? Or do you have some kind of process/algorithm to help make it fair? Do new people get worse oncall shifts than people who have been on the team for longer?