Guess what I came home with tonight?
The stinking on-call pager. The junior putz admin who was scheduled for the duty was a no-show today; turns out today was his AWS1 Day.
He neglected to note his AWS day on the group calendar; he didn’t call, stop by to pick up the pager, or a damn thing. This breaks two codes of the sysadmin:
- Let your coworkers know when you won’t be there;
- Don’t leave your coworkers in the lurch.
This is the same mope who called me at home at 3am a few weeks back; he was in a bind. I helped.
When next he needs help, my recollection of what to do, not to mention my willingness to help, will be in inverse proportion to the vividness of my recollection of his antics today.
-k-
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