System Zzzzz
- TAGS:mainframe
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Mainframes & Supercomputers, Management
It's 2 a.m. when this mainframe pilot fish's phone rings.
"My wife answered the phone -- it's on her side of the bed -- and shoved the phone in my ear," says fish. "After listening to the mainframe operator's problem, I replied with an action for him to take.
"In the morning, while getting ready to leave, my wife asked, 'What was the call about last night?'
"'What call?' I replied.
"I had absolutely no memory of the call or what I said -- couldn't even recall it while on the train.
"At work I read the nightly report about the call. What I told them fixed the problem, and I could now pretend I remembered it."
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