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Who Works During the Holidays?
While sitting here at my computer, plugging away at tending the bin,
I started wondering who else might be hard at work, instead of
enjoying what most in the world (especially in America) would consider
"the Holidays". I've stumbled into working this season for the second
year in a row, and I find myself not bothered much by it at all. If
you had asked me even 5 years ago if I would give up my Christmas
vacation for work, I would have laughed and answered with a resounding
"No!". Have any of you fallen into similar behavior? As an aside, what
Holidays do many of you find yourselves working, whether it be
Christmas, Thanksgiving, or some other Holiday, what drives you to work
when others are enjoying their time off?
I find the need and want for money, more than an ample substitute to work whilst everyone is on holiday, especially if the company you work for will give you the holiday time later as well :)
Why the Hell else would I be posting to Slashdot on Christmas, if I weren't slacking off at work?
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
"Holidays"... what are they?!
# man -k holiday
holiday: nothing appropriate.
Hmmm.....
Agreed. Typical vacation times really do make wonderful times to update machines or make other drastic changes to systems.
Here where I am, though, the department morons spent all last week reconfiguring the web server, mail server, and department firewall. They were nice and didn't commit the changes until 5:00pm on Friday. Then they left. The firewall is blocking access to all critical systems, the web server is rejecting requests randomly, and the mail server simly won't accept or transport mail--period. The guys resposible haven't answered phone calls, e-mails, or knocks on their doors. They all seem to have left for the holidays and who knows when they will be back.
Sigh....
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Don't listen to the Fat Bastard, he's lying! It's us, the Elves and Reindeers, that do all the work!
Damn you Santa!
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My friend works at a Home Depot, and she had to be in until 6:00 yesterday. Christmas Eve. Who the hell buys bathroom tiles on Christmas Eve?
I agree to. Up until I quit awhile I go, we almost always worked holidays. My ex company dealt with the buying and reselling of real-time stock data, and as such are regulated by the SEC.
Heck, back in May of 2000 we worked the entire month because they were trying to fix one of our UPS'es. Come in Saturday at 2am, shutdown all 2500 servers. Come back Sunday at 6am, and start em back up.
Thats a month I never wish to relivev again, unless I'm hourly then!
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