Just hit my 1000th emergency callout in 8 years at work

I was doing the math last night and realized I've done over a thousand after-hours callouts since I started as an elevator mechanic in Denver. That's like one every 3 days or so if you factor in holidays and weekends. Anyone else keep count of how many times you've had to leave dinner to fix a stuck car?

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angelar577d ago

Did you ever think about quitting after the first couple hundred?

danielr948d ago

And yeah @zarar67, that's exactly it. I guarantee your dad wasn't thinking about the poor guy who had to leave his half-eaten burger to come fix it. 1000 calls in 8 years sounds like a badge of honor until you realize that's also 1000 cold dinners and 1000 times your kid asked why you gotta leave again. Elevator guys deserve hazard pay just for the sheer volume of interrupted pizza nights if you ask me.

zarar678d ago

Used to roll my eyes at contractors who complained about on-call rotations. Thought they were just making a fuss over nothing. But after my building had an elevator fail on a Saturday night with my elderly dad stuck inside, I get it now. That callout count is brutal, 1000 of those in 8 years is a level of dedication most people will never understand.

the_anthony7d ago

Damn right, that's a wild number. I feel that pizza night thing personally, I've lost count how many times I've had to drop everything and run out the door for a job. 1000 callouts is a hell of a lot of cold dinners and family time you never get back, no amount of overtime pay makes up for that.