On Call for Work While Camping
I am in Information Technology (IT) and will be camping while on call this weekend. Our on call rotation changed after I planned our campground visit. We will be camped close to WiFi and almost 0% ...
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rhagfo wrote:
While currently doing retirement preview Hosting and working from campsite. I have three options, park DSL, slow and unreliable, Hot spot on work phone, works OK, and AT&T Bar card direct USB cellular card. All work and never give it a second thought.
Well that was August of 2016, I have been retired since June of 2017, don’t miss “On Call” once the internet was really up and good remote applications were the norm I once talked a store clerk through editing a binary file so she could close her store. Otherwise I would have needed to drive two hours to do it in person. While doing early troubleshooting to verify the issue, she was calm and followed directions very well. I figured it was low risk as she gave great feedback, had her open the file using an editor then did a search to find the bit that needed changing, had her change it save the file, then close the system.
I told my boss the next morning and she almost had a cow!
