Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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Meh, you get used to it. It's only stressful when the end of the maintenance window is approaching and you still don't know whether you'll wrap it up in time. The odd hours are more annoying though. Often late in the evening or during the weekend. Long weekends are actually perfect for large maintenance operations, but you (and the other people doing the maintenance) give up that long weekend in return. And I learned over the years that a compensation day during the week does not equal a weekend day, because you can't do anything with your buddies for example or when you want to sleep in, there might be roadworks in front of your house.
Pretty much. We have a maintenance window of X hours starting at Y o'clock and a schedule we follow. The last hour to 90 minutes of the window is the decision point where we either finalize things if they're on track or rollback and re-schedule after breaking down what went wrong.