Why do I keep my landline?
DSL My security alarm needs it
your specific one might, but newer ones don't necessarily need a landline. i have an adt system that has cellular service. i pay an extra $3 a month for it. if the box ever loses signal to the cell tower, adt calls me. in the 3 years that i've had the system, it has never lost signal to the cell tower.
Secondly, when you start to deal with the nagios error at 2am, send an email saying "I am looking into this now", and when you're done at 3am, send an email saying "All done now, see you at 10, I need my sleep more than ever now!". Screw what other people say, make sure your boss knows every single time you work out of hours via the aforementioned email. Bosses like reading emails that says "Problem fixed." anyway. Also make a note in a log book so you can demonstrate your out of hours company-saving efforts at review time.
ha... i find that most bosses read email in the opposite order. if an issue comes in via email, i fix it and respond that it is fixed. 2 days later, the boss "catches up" on his email and responds to the original email to want to know if it was fixed..........because he is reading the oldest emails first. this seems to be a trend with every IT manager that i've ever had.
outlook needs a threaded email system like gmail has. that way, if there were 10 responses to 1 email, they will all show up as 1 big thread rather than 11 separate emails.
If you're worried about "what major cities to go through" then you're no longer talking about "local knowledge". I think it's more talking about the fact that people who rely on sat-nav don't generally know the back streets as well as they used to.
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Old programmers never die, they just become managers.