[quote=earlyretirement]Fast forward to today’s working environment and for many of us, we are on call 24/7 as someone else mentioned. Back then they didn’t have Blackberries/Iphones/Smartphones where a client might get annoyed if you don’t answer within a few minutes. There was no Internet where things are instantly available. Things took much longer and it wasn’t instant like it is now. The efficiency just wasn’t there which meant they had more down time.…[/quote]
ER, I’ve never had a position for which there was “downtime.” When the mainframe was “down,” it simply meant we had a lot more fancy footwork and phone calling to do until it came back up again.
Have you ever made 400 calls a day on a rotary phone with a pencil eraser??
