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		justahuman74 on March 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diary of a first-time on-call engineer Being on call -at-all- just ruins your ability to go socialize. 70 is that same as 1.

cube2222 on March 15, 2022 [–]

How so?

Want to meet with somebody: take your laptop with you in a backpack. Just make sure you have mobile connectivity wherever you're going.

Want to party: just ask somebody to take over the pager for the evening.

If you have <=1 page per rotation, then it's really not annoying.

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