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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by trevor-e on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:57PM (#20348126)
I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely.

Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by dmitrygr on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:06PM (#20348785)
If you have your work with you, it isn't a vacation.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by wongarsu on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:18PM (#20348902)
If it's emergencies only and you get compensated handsomely many people will feel it's worth it. Of course reality often looks different.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by avh02 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:18PM (#20349486)
depends on how you value your vacation time with family/friends/to yourself.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by pfundstein on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:53PM (#20349746)
In my experience, people jostle to take part in a rotating on-call roster where they are sufficiently compensated, in my case $1700/week, to occasionally answer one or two calls.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by dheera on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:01PM (#20349336)
A lot of my vacation destinations don't even have cellular signal. Taking a laptop is often not an option on some trips either.
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