If you are on call and you receive a call at say 3:45 am and you resolve the issue by 4:30 am. Is it then worth trying to go back to sleep to wake up for work the next day or should you just stay awake and power through it?
I’m asking because this happened to me and I went back to bed, did not feel tired at all and when I eventually fell asleep I got maybe an hour of extra sleep and I felt like complete garbage when my alarm went off and pretty much like that for the remainder of the day. Whereas I feel like if I just stayed awake for the extra time after 4:30 am I might have not felt as bad?
What are your opinions on this?
Edit: I’m appreciating all the responses and taking the information in. Sounds like this is not a clear cut case that is a simple yes do this or no don’t do that.
I’d send a message saying I was going back to bed and sleeping in. I’d also sleep in more time than I spent fixing the issue because of the time it took to get back to sleep. I’ve done this several times over the last few years.
Also, as somebody else noted, if your company isn’t taking steps to help your health by addressing constant interruptions, it’s time to leave. I had a job where I got paged so much that I went to a meeting with my boss to talk about how awful my work life was, and I got paged 3 times during the meeting. I told him “I’m not paid to sit here with my pocket vibrating. We need to fix this situation.”