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   From: ma@switchboard.net   
      
   "Kundan"  wrote in message   
   news:538ff45e.0404150532.17a71f6a@posting.google.com...   
   > Wow! It's amazing - I had no clue so many people got incentives to   
   > carry the pager around! We have a team of 25+ developers, supporting a   
   > 24x6 worldwide system, and management requires everyone to carry the   
   > pager all around - plus, our support system is not very refined - it   
   > just sends all problems to everyone, which means everyone gets some 10   
   > pages every night, most of which are junk status messages from servers   
   > - take a look and fall back to sleep. and of course, we don't get paid   
   > a cent extra.   
   >   
   > The only way we beat the system is claim the pager ran out of juice   
   > just when we get caught at not responding to it!   
   >   
   > cheers :)   
   >   
   It is not so amazing if you were to look at each person's total compensation   
   package. Also, it depends on their job responsibilities, since people who   
   created a system should not be paid more if they have to spend time fixing   
   it.   
      
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