BOISE, ID — Randall Cooke, 41, of Boise, Idaho, successfully configured his smartphone’s Do Not Disturb schedule last November to cover every hour of the day, a technical achievement his family describes as “spiritually significant” and his employer describes as “an HR situation.”

Cooke, a supply chain analyst who initially set Do Not Disturb to run from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. to improve his sleep, made a series of incremental adjustments over six weeks that extended the quiet window by an average of 23 minutes per session. By December 4th, the schedule wrapped around the clock in what Cooke called “a coincidence I noticed around the third missed call from my mother.”

In the intervening four months, Cooke has missed 214 calls, 41 voicemails, two emergency alerts, one jury duty summons, and what his wife, Denise, 39, characterizes as “basically the entire winter.”

“I kept meaning to fix it,” Cooke said. “But honestly, it’s been the most peaceful four months of my adult life, so I’ve been working through some things about that.”

“He was reachable from 2003 to 2025,” said Marcus Webb, 44, Cooke’s direct supervisor at Inland Pacific Logistics. “We considered that a reasonable run.”

Cooke acknowledged Tuesday that he had not investigated how to modify the setting, noting that the phone’s support documentation is itself locked behind a notification he cannot receive.

At press time, Cooke had been added to the church prayer chain but had not been notified.