If actually getting paged is rare them just bring your laptop to dinner, that's what I always used to do. Sure, it might be that time you are unlucky and have t

If actually getting paged is rare them just bring your laptop to dinner, that's what I always used to do. Sure, it might be that time you are unlucky and have to work through dinner which sucks a lot. But it shouldn't happen much. Running is an issue, unless you don't mind a sweaty back to carry your laptop, or just run loops nearish to your house with your phone on you. What I usually did when picking up kids (close by, about 30 min round trip, YMMV) was to ack the page from my phone and log in when I got back home. Yes it sucks to be tethered to a laptop. But if after-hours pages are rare, and you aren't on call more than ~25% of the time, for me personally it's acceptable