Is there any joy left in this industry?

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:14:44PM -0400, David N. Blank-Edelman wrote:
> 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.

It certainly smacks of building a job description by listing the
things that the last person wasn't doing.

(also such items as "must have reliable transportation" or
"absolutely no telecommuting")

-dsr-


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