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Friday Funny: The View From 3:00 AM
It’s Friday…and time for some workplace levity. Diane Alber, the Arizona artist who created Kip and Gary, this week was pondering those wee small hours in the morning and what it means to be the “on call” staff and she’s drawn a cartoon that reflects the shock of the 3:00 AM call or page.
She writes, “I work a lot with data center operation staff, network engineers and IT directors, and one of the things that will stress them out the most is that infamous 3:00 AM call that the network is down. This inspired this next comic, considering those emergency calls that you have received, or that call you hope you never have to take at that hour.”
The deal is this: we provide the cartoon, drawn by Diane, and you, the reader, can submit the caption. Use the comments field below for your suggestions! Next week, we will choose three or so finalists, and Data Center Knowledge readers will have a chance to vote for their favorite. The winner will receive their caption in a signed print by Diane!
Congratulations to Anthony Wanger, president of IO, who was the prize winner for the last cartoon, with “The flyer says it’s ‘Data Center Ready!’”
Click to enlarge.Enter your submission in the comments below. Have a great and stress-free weekend.
To see our previous cartoons, visit the Humor section on Data Center Knowledge.
About Colleen Miller
Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. She has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with her most recent work dedicated to the online space. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data.
If that’s Gary looking for the “Any” key again, i’ll kill him…
JoeB
Posted April 27th, 2012I should have become an accountant.
dday
Posted April 27th, 2012Better not be the NOC guy ass dialing me again
Hey KIP its Gary you forgot your coffee cup – - — Siri… text KIP -” I know dumb dumb I was letting the cabling guys use it to collect rack nuts.”
“I don’t even work for them anymore.” As you can see on my LinkedIn profile, past employers are still calling me for advice.
BMH
Posted April 28th, 2012Is that the network going down or the baby waking up? Could be either one…
Martin
Posted April 30th, 2012“I knew that patch cable had to be hooked up somewhere..”
AJ
Posted April 30th, 2012As you can see… This is the reason there is not a hot chick sleeping next to me
crash_test
Posted April 30th, 20121. “Bangalore… again?”
2. “Just once I’d like to get a booty call instead of a re-boot call”
3. “Who the %#! shaved my head”
4. “Could be worse: I could be at a Tea Party or 99% rally”
5. “Is that SEAL team 6 at my door?”
6. “Nutz, I was having that NOC dream again
Rico
Posted May 1st, 20121) “These sleep deprivation experiments rally have to stop…”
2) “Oh man, another vivid dream. I could have sworn my phone was ringing.”
3) “..This is a status call to let you know we still haven’t found the problem with the circuit. Will call you back in 30 minutes…”
Mark Angle
Posted May 1st, 2012I told them we needed redundant CRAC units…
Why did I even bring that phone with me on vacation!!!!
William
Posted May 2nd, 201225 years in the business and the nightmares haven’t changed.
Frank
Posted May 4th, 2012I think having little kids was easier than backing up Gary when he’s on call…
Finally – I’ve been worrying about this for three years.
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