Operators Are Standing By!

[bjarvis]

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:

Comments

Yes,...i would...

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

i would like fries with that.

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

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

I'd totally chat you up if you were my Time-Life Operator standing by ;-)

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

So much handsomeness wasted in a basement!

[wescobear.livejournal.com]

Hey! You have a chair. How can you be standing by?

[tbrough.livejournal.com]

if I saw you on the other end of a live customer service line, who knows what I'd end up buying?

[dancer44.livejournal.com]

I'm surprized that you are wearing clothes. this would be the ideal time to work naked!