On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that celebrates the IT professionals who put their lives on pause to provide tech support at all hours. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jemaine." In the early 1990s, he found himself in Hong Kong working as a database specialist on VAX/VMS systems. "We'd built a billing application for a telco client in Macau, and it had been running happily for some time," he told On Call.