Our IT people turn off their pagers when they go home-- which makes them sort of useless...
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Sophia Brooks - Jun 06, 2008 6:56:01 am PDT #1513 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Torque - Jun 06, 2008 7:01:13 am PDT #1514 of 10003
Bad Wolf
We take turns with the pager. Luckily my team is big enough that I only get it 1 week every couple of years.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:04:34 am PDT #1515 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 06, 2008 7:06:26 am PDT #1516 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
amych - Jun 06, 2008 7:06:33 am PDT #1517 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
msbelle - Jun 06, 2008 7:07:58 am PDT #1518 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
my boss does not have my home number. I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:10:40 am PDT #1519 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.)
Jesse - Jun 06, 2008 7:10:52 am PDT #1520 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:12:39 am PDT #1521 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers?
When I lived in San Francisco in '95 and '96, I saw lots of IT people with pagers. So I'm surprised now by people who don't know that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2008 7:14:17 am PDT #1522 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
Yeah, everyone around here has BlackBerrys.
BlackBerries?