emergencies
Dec. 5th, 2005 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeworking late, and there's an emergency phone call to the lab: somebody's dad in India has had an emergency, and they're trying to reach him.
they do this through the network of Indian grad students -- the guy calling up from the lab downstairs has never met A, and I don't know what to do except give them his cell phone number. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beckyb, this is not the A currently in the Bay Area, don't worry.)
First, though, I asked them for a call-back number, and left a message on A's cell phone, with the numbers. Then I got a call from someone in India, with the message to contact his family right away. I gave up on the privacy precautions, and shared his cell phone number with the poor guy. I hope that I haven't just given away A's phone number to a very clever bill-collection agency. But I also hope that the emergency isn't as dire as it sounds.
I'm going to leave....
they do this through the network of Indian grad students -- the guy calling up from the lab downstairs has never met A, and I don't know what to do except give them his cell phone number. (
beckyb, this is not the A currently in the Bay Area, don't worry.)First, though, I asked them for a call-back number, and left a message on A's cell phone, with the numbers. Then I got a call from someone in India, with the message to contact his family right away. I gave up on the privacy precautions, and shared his cell phone number with the poor guy. I hope that I haven't just given away A's phone number to a very clever bill-collection agency. But I also hope that the emergency isn't as dire as it sounds.
I'm going to leave....
