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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:36:42 PST
From: mojavegnopsamsp.com (Everett M. Greene)
Subject: Re: OT: Cell phones and driving


davehinznopsamcop.net writes: > Everett M. Greene <mojavegnopsamsp.com> wrote: > > davehinznopsamcop.net writes: > >> > >> So, I need to either sell my house, or get a different job it seems. > >> When I'm on call (I'm in the IT field), I have to respond to an incident > >> within 5 minutes, to acknowledge the incident and report that I'm working > >> on it. > > > My first reaction to reading the above was that five minute response > > time is ludicrous. > > OK, I have an hour drive time. Even if I had a 55-minute response time > limit, it's still less time than my drive takes. Same question/problem/ > situation, isn't it? I suppose if it was 30 minutes, I could turn around > to answer the page, but that's not all that realistic, is it. > > > There's very little in this world except medical > > emergencies and ballistic missile defense where a few minutes one way > > or another will be of any significance. IT is certainly NOT one of > > the fields where realtime response is critical. > > It is when the people who pay my salary lose many dollars per second that > the site is down. If I don't respond, the next person on the list gets > called 5 minutes later, and so on. If each of us had 30 minutes to not > respond, it could be many, many lost seconds before someone started working > on the problem. > > The point, however, illustrates that there may be real needs to be > reachable. This is not a "real" need. This is someone's perceived need. There are priorities in life and getting someone killed, maimed, and/or injured to save a few dollars isn't high on the list. > The mere act of being on a cellphone isn't the problem, > it's the act of being on a cellphone and being reckless that is. This is > the whole eternal "bad thing" vs. "bad person" argument - the appropriate, > vs. the inappropriate, use of tools. In part of the snipped followup, it was stated that you simply acknowledge the report and will get back to them later (and it sounds as if it could be as much as nearly an hour later). If you can't and don't do anything about the problem report until arriving home, what difference does it make about whether you did or did not answer the call enroute?

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