Re: On call Legend
I got a round trip ticket, a couple nights on a five star hotel and some expenses money and went all the way from Argentina to Paris and back to recover a Red Hat cluster for Big Blue once.
Whilst waiting in the business class lounge mid September one year I met a bloke going to Bermuda. He worked for an insurance company and was going to fix something with their computers/network etc. He had been to Bermuda earlier in the month but when he landed he'd not had good news. His boss had left voicemails, sent emails and SMS. These said he was booked on the return flight and not to leave the airport. This was bcause there was a nasty hurricane on the way. His boss was unwilling to have him there when it hit. So he'd gone through immigration who were intrigued he wasn't staying long. Got to the check in and found he was booked in business class on the way back. The only available seat apparently.
The guy was now going back to Bermuda because the hurricane had been and gone. He'd taken grief from his girlfriend because he was getting two trips to Bermuda. She didn't understand that 14hrs on a plane with a couple of hours at each end wasn't fun. All she understood was he'd been to a sunny island with sandy beaches and she hadn't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
