Is there any joy left in this industry?

David N. Blank-Edelman dnb-1vnkWVZi4QaVc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 28 14:14:44 EDT 2010


On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> It's a sysadmin job... having to participate in the on-call rotation seems
> pretty standard to me.  ... If there's no "rotation" because you're the only sysadmin, then I would
> suspect it's a small enough shop that the 2 AM page about the mail server
> being down just means you need to get in an hour early to look at it before
> the regular employees roll in.

No disagreement there, but listing it first and the manner in it is written makes you wonder how the treat the staff in this regard.

    -- dNb







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