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Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers? I'm surprised by how often they're still considered the purview of doctors and drug dealers, although all my employers have tried to shackle me with one.
This week has been very long, but on the upside I'll be making it into work every day, which is huge.
Someone sent me this as a picture of Shia LaBeouf for my website. Freaky manip, no? How can you even think not?
Freaky manip, no? How can you even think not?
RARRGH. Horrifying Beastmaster Shia is horrifying.
Our IT people turn off their pagers when they go home-- which makes them sort of useless...
We take turns with the pager. Luckily my team is big enough that I only get it 1 week every couple of years.
I don't have to carry a pager, and I almost never get called by work outside of work hours. Occasionally we have to, say, configure a new server for a client, which has to be done on a weekend or evening or something. But that happens maybe once every few years.
Also, I meant the pagers were useless, not the IT staff!!!
I got called at home ALL THE TIME for almost every job I have ever had, because I was an "assistant", and sometimes bosses can't find things like keys, or room reservations, or how to use fax machines.
We take turns with the pager. Luckily my team is big enough that I only get it 1 week every couple of years.
Oh, that's sweet. I've got one every 6 weeks, but it tends to be a very quiet pager.
my boss does not have my home number. I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
My friend Miriam is a hospice nurse (mostly for kids with cancer). She's on call once a week. Sometimes we'll go out in the evening on such days, taking a chance that she won't get called. Sometimes she does, and has to leave. Once she was getting up from a movie (in the theater) to answer her phone, and I was tempted to say loudly, "What, is the kid dying now?" (If I did that, I'm sure she'd say something to continue the joke.)
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers? I'm surprised by how often they're still considered the purview of doctors and drug dealers, although all my employers have tried to shackle me with one.
I guess it makes sense in a 24-hour business, but yeah, I wouldn't have thought of it.
