There were a couple of years where I was on call to fix overnight software builds, which took about 14 hours to run, and which we were doing daily during flight trials of the 777. So I'd kick them off just before I went home here in the UK, and my colleague in Seattle would keep an eye on it and page me if the process fell over and he couldn't fix it from there.
My mistake was never actually checking what the pager sounded like, so one Saturday morning I wake up to a beeping that's gradually getting louder. "Weird," I think, "must be a lorry with a wide load coming up the hill", roll over and go back to sleep. A couple of hours later I get a phone call from a slightly irate project manager asking if I'm coming in or not. Whoops.
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Date: 2019-02-09 08:11 am (UTC)My mistake was never actually checking what the pager sounded like, so one Saturday morning I wake up to a beeping that's gradually getting louder. "Weird," I think, "must be a lorry with a wide load coming up the hill", roll over and go back to sleep. A couple of hours later I get a phone call from a slightly irate project manager asking if I'm coming in or not. Whoops.