Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Support call.

In my present job, I have a duty every alternate week to mend the support phone line, which is switched on 24 x 7. This phone is routed to my handphone.

And I just got woken up by a wrong call made to the support phone.

It's 3:43 am now, and I am having difficulty sleeping again. 0_0.

Time for a glass of Macallan.

7 Comments:

Blogger Alethea said...

poor thing...

8:59 AM  
Blogger Alethea said...

oh! next time switch off your handphone when you're sleeping! kekekeke.... :P

9:00 AM  
Blogger expat@large said...

You've got it easy.

I used to do on-call radiography (x-ray) for a large but short-staffed hospital - I did one in 5 nights.

Typical Night 1: - a) 12am: major road trauma, blood and guts and broken bones everywhere in the Emergency Room. b) 4am: the operating theatre, major engineering feats of body resoncstruction needing x-ray proof of success... c) 9am relief from the day staff. d) 1pm back to work to catch up on that back-log of in-patients because I was "asleep" in the morning because I was in all night.

Typical Night 2: a) 3am - factory worker drops 3-ton weight on industrial strength toe. X-ray before taking off shoe and after. Oops nothing broken, go back to bed. b) 4:30 am - we forgot about the guy with a collapsed lung, could you wake up again come back in a do a chest x-ray before he dies? c) & d) as above.

Typical Night 3: a) 12am - pubs shut, major brawl, bouncer throws several guys down stairs. Leave the really drunken one till the day shift, we can't operate in him anyway. b): 7am - please come in early and x-ray the drunken guy so we can get him on the morning's theatre list. The bouncer, who is part-timing as our hospital orderly, goes with a wheelchair to pick up the very guy he threw downstairs -- and who was sober enough to remember who did it to him! Patient tries to run out the hospital but fractured ankle won't let him... c) & d) as above.

I wish I'd been a teacher. No-one calls you at 4am saying "Come quick, my son has forgotten how to read!"

E@L

12:03 PM  
Blogger urbanmalebitch said...

Alethea: How to lah ...it's my job. I get paid for this.

Expat@Large: That's why ur a highly paid doctor..and I'm a low life IT scum... *grin*

11:38 PM  
Blogger expat@large said...

No, don't say that - my son is in IT - I keep telling everyone how successful he is! LOL!

E@L

11:45 PM  
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