Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

The Register
Apr 12, 2024, 3:30 am123 pts
And be paid danger money while he did it On Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly wander through readers’ recollections of being asked to perform tech support under all sorts of strange circumstances, most of them difficult. But not always.…

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