Page This

For the past 2+ years, as a part of my job (Production Operations Engineer), I had to carry a pager. I was 'on-call' about maybe 4-5 times a month for a 24 hour shift, and backup about the same number of times. On any given weekday, I would get about 25-30 pages. At all hours. Long story short -- it sucked. Bad. No matter how many different beep volumes or patterns I tried, they all sounded loud and angry. You don't want to wake up to that. Anyway, a few months ago, I changed positions (System Administration, no pager), but was asked to help out my previous group until they filled some open headcount. I'm a team player, so of course, I do this. Well, the new hires just started, so when I went into work last Friday (6/9), my old boss asked for my pager. And I couldn't stop smiling as I handed it to him.

I will remember that moment forever.

This entry was posted by ToDd. on Monday, June 12. 2006 at 16:14. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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