On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off
Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter
ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that celebrates the IT professionals who put their lives on pause to provide tech support at all hours.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jemaine." In the early 1990s, he found himself in Hong Kong working as a database specialist on VAX/VMS systems.
"We'd built a billing application for a telco client in Macau, and it had been running happily for some time," he told On Call. By the time the system needed its first major OS upgrade, Jemaine was therefore happy for the local crew to handle the job.
His client had other ideas and, despite also arranging for two DBAs to be present during the upgrade, insisted he show up.
This was not a hardship because the job coincided with the...
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