May your pagers be silent.
So nice to hear you and your colleagues can make the work/life balance out for each other!
Not on rotation, but one never knows how much something escalates, therefor and for the team members silence if of course preferred ;)
I guess now “carrying the pager” is a metaphor like “copy and paste” (from the glue used in newspaper layout).
Can't help but think of that epic line in The Hangover
"Paging doctor F.....!" - Phil
Merry Christmas!
Not to mention being robust against all kinds of physical abuse, which may itself be a useful characteristic for an on-call comms unit.
Policy I've seen employed was that the current on-call remained on-call until the pager was fully charged.
Dead pagers may be more fun than dead puppies, but that's not a high-prestige contest.
Admittedly, I'm someone who has carried an honest-to-god pager, the "start the number with 911 if it's an emergency" sort of 10 digit segmented LCD ones. Even remember enjoying the freedom of getting upgraded to one of the national ones when traveling!
Though I'm currently thinking about switching from PagerDuty to ntfy.sh/pushover, as it's really hard to justify almost $50/mo per person with Pager Duty for the use my small team makes of it.