[geeks] FSCKING oncall pager rant

[chad kellerman]

I had one where a tech paged me and asked me to call her.  This was at 2:00 am

Whne I called....

  She wanted to know what bitchx was.

ARGHHHHHH.


chad



On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:02:57 -0700
"Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com> wrote:

> Its my turn to do the oncall rotation at work this week. I am tired of it.
> 
> Its just like stupid intrusion detection systems in that there is lots of
> paging and warnings of a bogus or ghostly cause and all the noise can mask a
> real issue.
> 
> So, I'm up at 2:00am again trying to find out why databases on two coasts
> went shithouse and then "autohealed". Its gotten to the point where I watch
> the pager and wait for the "clears" (unrelated to scientology!) come in.
> This time I didn't see one machine clear when in fact it did (pager
> sometimes misses pages, bad coverage).
> 
> I hate this.
> 
> James Fogg, Network Engineer
> Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
> (603) 442-1751
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