For some of us, we look forward to the peace and quiet
Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
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Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#12Yeah, we discourage production changes starting first or second december week, and start freezing changes third december week until it's frozen solid fourth december week until second week of january.
December tends to be hell for our customers, so stability should be a priority there.
And honestly, no one wants to work on holidays. So lets just wrap everything starting in december, maybe use the third week for some unnoticed issues and then just lay down the tools. Use that time for documentation, or shorter days, quite frankly.
That way we minimize the on-call situations occuring. Let's hope it goes well for the engineer this year as well. We have a streak to keep.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#13I announced a downtime for a smallish GPU Cluster starting from christmas eve just a few hours ago. It is just the perfect time to schedule a day or two of downtime for a system like that. And if IPMI doesn't fail me, I can get a lot of things done without leaving the comfort of my home. I scheduled this without pressure from my boss. It was a totally voluntary decision... While being raised as a Christian, this time of the year is for me more about solstice then about the Christian clelbration. A time to enjoy the comfort of a heated home. A time to celebrate that the days are going to be longer from now on again. A time to reflect on the past year. And all of this is easily done while having a few terminals open and waiting for remote stuff to complete...
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#14Just barely started my current job too recently to be in the on-call rotation yet. Lucked out! Props to those keeping the wheels turning.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#15As if this week had attempted to take a measure of blood from my body, I'll be on-call next week. Looking forward to all things quiet on the HEP network front.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#16On call till 31st, so please don't hit refresh too much this days ;-)
Me too, but they pay a few bucks an hour to carry the phone so at least that adds up.
Ultimate trick is to have a diverse team. Someone that doesn’t care about Christmas but absolutely needs some random day off in March (cool with us!). Someone that celebrates new years some other time.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#17Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
Let's not confuse on-call firefighters or a water facility staff with the on-call admins that maintain money-making machines monetizing attention of billions. The latter is a net negative on society.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#18Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
I’ll give a shout out too to everyone in the military monitoring warning systems and maintaining stance to protect us from being killed while we’re with our families.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#19Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
Let's not confuse on-call firefighters or a water facility staff with the on-call admins that maintain money-making machines monetizing attention of billions. The latter is a net negative on society.
Not a fan of the YouTube Yule Log, I see.
Re: Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
#20Yeah, we discourage production changes starting first or second december week, and start freezing changes third december week until it's frozen solid fourth december week until second week of january. December tends to be hell for our customers, so stability should be a priority there. And honestly, no one wants to work on holidays. So lets just wrap everything starting in december, maybe use the third week for some…
We do the same, I work in logistics software and we usually freeze early November up until Christmas.