I'm not sure how many companies still use "pagers" aka "beepers", but this person is talking about the device you carry that would alert you when there is a problem with one of your systems. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=593535494&q=pager&tbm=...
Before mobile phones and beepers, institutions would use a public address system to announce “paging dr. whoever.” Makes me wonder whether the word comes from sending a “page” (an errand boy) to go look for dr. whoever and bring him back.
I guess now “carrying the pager” is a metaphor like “copy and paste” (from the glue used in newspaper layout).
I will admit that I paused after typing that, but then I figured, as another commenter mentioned, that with PagerDuty being popular, it wasn't too much of a stretch.
Admittedly, I'm someone who has carried an honest-to-god pager, the "start the number with 911 if it's an emergency" sort of 10 digit segmented LCD ones. Even remember enjoying the freedom of getting upgraded to one of the national ones when traveling!
Though I'm currently thinking about switching from PagerDuty to ntfy.sh/pushover, as it's really hard to justify almost $50/mo per person with Pager Duty for the use my small team makes of it.
I work for a globally remote organisation, so I voluntarily took the on-call rota for the last week of the year. This way, my colleagues can enjoy Xmas with their families without any pager anxiety, and they made sure I could have the same experience this past month over Diwali ;)
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 350 ms ] threadI guess now “carrying the pager” is a metaphor like “copy and paste” (from the glue used in newspaper layout).
Can't help but think of that epic line in The Hangover
"Paging doctor F.....!" - Phil
Merry Christmas!
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pager
https://americanmessaging.net/
Not to mention being robust against all kinds of physical abuse, which may itself be a useful characteristic for an on-call comms unit.
Policy I've seen employed was that the current on-call remained on-call until the pager was fully charged.
Dead pagers may be more fun than dead puppies, but that's not a high-prestige contest.
Admittedly, I'm someone who has carried an honest-to-god pager, the "start the number with 911 if it's an emergency" sort of 10 digit segmented LCD ones. Even remember enjoying the freedom of getting upgraded to one of the national ones when traveling!
Though I'm currently thinking about switching from PagerDuty to ntfy.sh/pushover, as it's really hard to justify almost $50/mo per person with Pager Duty for the use my small team makes of it.
Not on rotation, but one never knows how much something escalates, therefor and for the team members silence if of course preferred ;)
So nice to hear you and your colleagues can make the work/life balance out for each other!
Space Christmas, Shonen Knife