What Are You Doing Right Now
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Good morning from Crete, everyone.
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So I met a Systems Architect last night. He told me he's "only ever seen Linux once and that was in a YouTube video." Not surprisingly their branch is shutting down the end of this year.
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@johnhooks said:
So I met a Systems Architect last night. He told me he's "only ever seen Linux once and that was in a YouTube video." Not surprisingly their branch is shutting down the end of this year.
He's heard of the Internet, right?
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@nadnerB said:
@johnhooks said:
So I met a Systems Architect last night. He told me he's "only ever seen Linux once and that was in a YouTube video." Not surprisingly their branch is shutting down the end of this year.
He's heard of the Internet, right?
Haha I think so. He at least found the YouTube video I'm assuming.
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More Xcom2 while on lunch break
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I am mentally preparing for working a full day shift today, and then taking shifts to monitor server room temperatures for the next 72 hours, and praying that everything stays below 85, lol.
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I'm sitting here at the office wondering why the hell my boss would text me at 10PM asking me to come in early because he has to work late.
Rather than call, I'm not the kind of person to sit with my phone in my hands hoping someone texts me.
Am I wrong for thinking a call would've been more appropriate?
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@DustinB3403 Email is actually more appropriate, with maybe a text to say I sent an email take a look. After 9pm unless there is an outage don't bother employees at home.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@DustinB3403 Email is actually more appropriate, with maybe a text to say I sent an email take a look. After 9pm unless there is an outage don't bother employees at home.
And if they're dead asleep and you need them, you call them incessantly until their spouse hears the phone going berserk and beats them into awareness with it.
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@Minion-Queen even email isn't something I'm not tuning in for. I go to bed early 10PM 10:30 sometimes even earlier if I'm just exhausted.
Now I could see email, text, and then a phone call in like a 10 minute span if there was no response.
But a little blip noise on my phone which isn't in my pocket / hand / immediate next to me isn't going to be heard. At least the ringer I'd be able to hear.
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I'm of the opinion, if it is something important call me.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I'm of the opinion, if it is something important call me.
Which I think changing of the schedule would be an important enough matter to justify a phone call if the other methods didn't result in an immediate response.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Rather than call, I'm not the kind of person to sit with my phone in my hands hoping someone texts me.
Am I wrong for thinking a call would've been more appropriate?
Text is way more appropriate and neither is appropriate at all. Calling and texts are legacy technology and are about contacting your device, not you. To contact you as a person, email is the right technology. A phone call is the worst possible as it requires that you jump to answer it, and there is no call for an interruption like that. Email is best because it is not an "interrupt" type thing to do and he needs the message to get to your reliably regardless of your device state or location and texts have no delivery reliability like emails do.
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@DustinB3403 said:
But a little blip noise on my phone which isn't in my pocket / hand / immediate next to me isn't going to be heard. At least the ringer I'd be able to hear.
You can set your phone calls to blip and your texts to ring if you want. What alerts you and how is up to you. My phone calls do not ring, for example, and haven't for years. If you want me to get the alert, it has to be email. Especially as my bedroom has no phone or wifi access, so if you try to contact my device (phone) rather than me (email) I likely won't get it at all. But email will get to me the moment I get in wifi range or check my computer.
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If the boss wanted to ensure you got the message - which unless you're oncall 24x7 and required/expected to see all messages within min - he should have called.
Sure Scott's right, calling is old school - But when you don't get a confirmation using whatever method you choose to live by, then you need to continue trying communication methods until you do.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
But a little blip noise on my phone which isn't in my pocket / hand / immediate next to me isn't going to be heard. At least the ringer I'd be able to hear.
You can set your phone calls to blip and your texts to ring if you want. What alerts you and how is up to you. My phone calls do not ring, for example, and haven't for years. If you want me to get the alert, it has to be email. Especially as my bedroom has no phone or wifi access, so if you try to contact my device (phone) rather than me (email) I likely won't get it at all. But email will get to me the moment I get in wifi range or check my computer.
So what do you do in the case of an emergency when somebody needs to get a hold of you RIGHT NOW? You might not have wifi or data for email, but you could have a cell phone signal.
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@Dashrender said:
If the boss wanted to ensure you got the message - which unless you're oncall 24x7 and required/expected to see all messages within min - he should have called.
Sure Scott's right, calling is old school - But when you don't get a confirmation using whatever method you choose to live by, then you need to continue trying communication methods until you do.
Plus was this a company phone? Or are they paying for the phone that's being used? If not, why would you expect an immediate answer at all if you're not on call?
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@Dashrender said:
Sure Scott's right, calling is old school - But when you don't get a confirmation using whatever method you choose to live by, then you need to continue trying communication methods until you do.
I didn't say that it was old school, I said that it was wrong. Not the same. Old school and wrong are different things.
