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bjarvis ([personal profile] bjarvis) wrote2010-12-29 01:12 pm
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Operators Are Standing By!

I'm systems engineering on-call primary this week. There are four of us who cycle through the roll so I'm the backup on-call or the primary on-call one week each with two weeks off.

When I first noticed that I'd be on-call during the peak of the holiday season, I was a little miffed, but then I realized that this is the slowest part of my employer's business calendar and a huge percentage of our in-house staffers & developers were going to be on vacation. Enlightenment: with neither customers nor developers to mess up my apps & servers, this is the single best time of the year to be on-call!

Still, I'm faithfully in my bunker basement computer cave home office, catching up on email, dealing with the occasional automated alert and generally cleaning up my files:

Yes,...i would...

[identity profile] bootedintexas.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
i would like fries with that.

but in this case..."i would like Frys with that"

Re: Yes,...i would...

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"That'll be $6.17, please drive forward to the cashier window, have a nice day."

[identity profile] theoctothorpe.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd totally chat you up if you were my Time-Life Operator standing by ;-)

[identity profile] bootedintexas.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and if you order now i'll include Andy Gibb's "ROMANTIC FAVORITES" for Free!!!!!!

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be anything you want. :-)

[identity profile] pklexton.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So much handsomeness wasted in a basement!

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Just the other day, I was dreaming something similar: hy can't I have my own reality show? I'm just as talentless as the next slob!

[identity profile] wescobear.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hey! You have a chair. How can you be standing by?

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
This is the only chair I get to use in business hours: my cage at the data center doesn't have a chair. :-(

[identity profile] tbrough.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
if I saw you on the other end of a live customer service line, who knows what I'd end up buying?

[identity profile] dancer44.livejournal.com 2010-12-30 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprized that you are wearing clothes. this would be the ideal time to work naked!