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At your kid's soccer game? A date night? Planning on doing any of those things? Be prepared to get pulled out at any moment to deal with something that could take hours to resolve

Haha true story, I was on-call once and I called a guy in another team because I needed him to do his thing. The call was a little weird.

The next day he told me he was driving at the time, phone on speaker balanced on the dash, with the laptop open on the passenger seat, logged in with a 3G dongle...



Ha, that sounds about right. I've answered pages from the backseat of my car at a rest stop in the middle of nowhere while my infant looked over my shoulder. Makes for good stories at least.

I maintain that the pages answered from team happy hours are the most dangerous.


He hadn't stopped, had the wheel in one hand, typing into a root shell with the other.




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