Well boys and girls, I'm on-call this week.

 

duck out early on Friday and don't answer you phone.

 

Yea I'm going to. I was oncall for one of my co-worker's weekend so he owes me.

 

Why are so many of us on call? Do we really matter that much? I guess there are a bunch of bad-asses around here. My day also started with a phone call at 5 AM. It's not the early wake-up that bugs me, it's the unexpected randomness of the call.

 

Was it PD? Were they asking you about that dead hooker again?

 

Serious. I get owned becuase I'm the only one here after-hours (or rather, I was) so if something comes up after I go home, or on the weekend, it's my guys who call me because they don't know what to do. Beats the hell out of sitting on hot issues and having to explain it the next day, though.

 

Not being on call rules!

Though, that might change when my programs first go out into the field Until our support desk is trained in our new program, I hear that the customers will actually talk directly to the engineers

 

That sounds like fun... or... the exact opposite of what I just said.

 

Get an Admin. They own!

 

fixed.

 

Admins wouldn't know what to do without a few calls to me regardless.

 

Yea but if don't have to deal with irate customers. :\
You could also train some to answer some of the "basic problems" if any.

 

Actually, thats probably what would realistically happen.

I was just trying to make an office space reference (a stretch, I know) about customers taking specs directly to the engineers etc, etc...

 

haha I was thinking the same thing in a strange way.

 

I picked up on it.