First Night On Call
This week I have been placed on after-hours-on-call for the first time since I started working at my current job. For those of you that don’t know when you are on call after hours you are given a pager and when a user called into the service desk with a computer related problem the pager beeps and you are supposed to take care of the problem.
This in itself is not a big deal, pretty easy actually, thing is that last night was my first night and as Linda, my boss commented, “well, on the bright side it doesn’t get much worse than it did last night.” I got home from work at 5:30pm and at 6:05pm I got my first call. This escelated into 5 more calls between 6 and 7pm at which time I got the Windows-On-Call person on the phone and we started rebooting servers. This went on for a few hours and by 1am this morning we had all the servers rebooted and everything was working fine. I then went to bed.
A few hours later I got a page at 3am and then worked until 5am resolving the problem. I then went back to bed for an hour more of sleep until I had to get ready for work. I got a grand total of 3 hours of sleep last night.
On the bright side I get paid time and a half for any after hours calls. Still…I can’t wait till next Monday at 8am…then On-Call goes to someone else.
