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I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely.

Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.




If you have your work with you, it isn't a vacation.


If it's emergencies only and you get compensated handsomely many people will feel it's worth it. Of course reality often looks different.


depends on how you value your vacation time with family/friends/to yourself.


In my experience, people jostle to take part in a rotating on-call roster where they are sufficiently compensated, in my case $1700/week, to occasionally answer one or two calls.


A lot of my vacation destinations don't even have cellular signal. Taking a laptop is often not an option on some trips either.




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