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June 28, 2005 at 9:05 am
· Filed under Thoughts About Life, Bitching about Stuffs, Yuna
In my entire 9 and half years of IT career, I have been able to dodge the bullet and never needed to carry a pager…. until now.
Saturday night around 11:20pm, my cell phone started to spit 10 text messages per second at me for a good half an hour with this wonderful high pitch tone I picked. The worst part is that you can’t do anything with the phone while it is in the process of notifying you that “You got a text message”. I finally had to yell at the damn phone on the top of my lung, “SHUT THE F@#$ UP!!!” The next thing I knew, I stayed up on the SWAT call until 3am. And this happened the night before! The weekend was ruined… Oh, and the best part is that I HAVE TO DO THIS on EVERY weekend in July.
I am not the only one who has been losing life over this job. Majority of the people on this project haven’t taken a single weekend off for a very long time. And working late hours without sleeping is expected by the client.
When I worked in Richmond, VA for a year, most of my friends had to be on call for an entire week. I don’t know how they survived those horrifying “You don’t get to sleep” nights for years. Gloria is probably till doing that. My gosh, I think this is time for me to consult those On-Call experts back in Richmond, “Yeah.. exactly.. How did you keep your sanity when you don’t even have the rights to sleep, let along living your life???”
I finally gathered all the courage and wrote a memo to the top project execs and copied to my own department managers to address the issue and suggested a few things to give back people’s life in some way if not all. I sat down with bunch of managers yesterday to work on the resolutions and it seems that I have gained some ground: 1. If people worked on nights and weekends, they have the rights to take week days off. 2. No one should work more than 2 weekends per month and the schedule has to work around people’s personal plans.
I remember Tom Cruise’s character got fired because of a memo he wrote in Jerry Maguire. I guess I am luckier than him in this case.
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