On Call Glossary

Browse 2 on call terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 On Call Terms

Getting Paged: Being alerted for an operational issue, especially outside normal quiet focus time. In engineering slang, getting paged is both a literal event and a mood...
Sunday Scaries: The anxious feeling that arrives before the workweek or an upcoming operational burden. In engineering slang, Sunday scaries often get intensified by fragile...