Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] File IO

[Matthew V. <lin...@ho...>]

On 30 Mar 2001 09:06:34 +1000, Tim Josling wrote:
> I will be here. The only thing is, do a small bit at a time and
> send it in.
> 
> We are making progress. Working on the Go To verb at the moment.
> 
> Re being on call: I was on call for many years, and I got sick of
> being called at 4am all the time. We did an analysis and found
> the most common causes for being called in and fixed them.
> Callins went down by a factor of 10. Of course management is not
> going to pay for the work unless it costs them. Do you get paid
> for a) being on call b) being called c) coming in to work.
> 
> Tim Josling
> 

It is pretty bad.  There are the occasional challenging issues, however.
I'm currently doing baseline support (the next line past the helpdesk).
With us, though, that translates to answering how-to questions on
weekends, to fixing data in databsse tables, to fixing bugs in
production code, to marathon code diving sessions.  I'm scheduled to
rotate back to development soon--hopefully that will coincide with our
replatforming effort...

Don't get paid, really, for being on-call.  We do, however, compensate
ourselves by taking a day off for every week on-call.  I guess it works
out.  The more production code we fix, well, you know, another just pops
right on up there....keeps me in coding practice, anyhow. :)

> Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> > 
> > Just as an FYI, I"m still poking away at the file I/O grammar and
> > runtime.  I've been very busy with work lately, and with planning my
> > wedding for next week.  I should be able to devote more attention to it
> > shortly.
> > 
> > Being on-call, in the words of Kyle, Stan, and Cartman, "sucks ass!"
> > 
> > --
> > Matthew Vanecek
> 
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