On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:

> THEY WILL GIVE YOU A PAGER AND THEY WILL NOT BE AFRAID TO USE IT.
>
>
> Take that with all that implies. It's EXTREMELY high pressure, everyone
> wants everything done NOW, everyone's priorities are way more important
> than yours, and if it's at 4am after you've put in 12 hours straight
> fixing something else, that's just too bad. It's a 24/7 kind of thing.

Pager duty is a rite of pasage and it will drive you insane.  It is
how you earn your stripes, and with any luck you'll get elevated to
either light pager duty or non at all.  Don't expect that or ask
thoguh, you have to earn it.

Brian