[wink]

It depends though. I totally see your point and when I was working in a company where we spread the oncall between all people it was a) usually no problem to swap a few hours (we did full weeks, so if you had one thing for 4h one night, usually someone would cover) and b) our response times weren't quite SO harsh - so we did some things, as long as you had cell coverage and a laptop nearby. Of course the cinema was out, or being on the road for hours, but going for groceries was no problem.

I still hated it and don't want to do it anymore because we had so many factors out of our control that made "false" alarms where the only thing to do was check if it was really a problem and then open a ticket upstream at a vendor...