Every morning we have a daily meeting and my manager asks who’s on call. And every morning some form of the following pops into my head.

The new IT manager (Lou) walks into the DBA manager’s office (Bud).

Lou: Hey Bud I’m trying to get a feel for what’s going on in your department.

Bud: Sounds reasonable Lou. But I’ll warn you DBAs are rather strange.

Lou: In what way?

Bud: Well they have rather odd names for one thing.

Lou: Well with a job title of DBA I’m not surprised.

Bud: Ok, so Who’s on call, What’s on instance monitoring and I Don’t Know’s on backups…

Lou: That’s what I want to find out.

Bud: I say Who’s on call, What’s on instance monitoring and I Don’t Know’s on backups…

Lou: Look, are you the manager.

Bud: Of course.

Lou: Then Who’s on call.

Bud: Yes.
Lou: I mean…