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Who Works During the Holidays?

Posted by Cliff on from the workaholics-anonymous dept.

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?

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  1. Re:Cn U Rd Ths? by aka-ed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We are good, old-fashioned dial-up.

    No outages today, system status reads clear and was updated the last hour. (And is borne out by the tiny trickle of calls we are getting.)

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  2. whos laughing? by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Haaaa Haaa

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  3. Re:I'm a physician by fscking_coward_2001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So ... anyone who advocates avenging the deaths of innocents is a sociopath? Or do you just reserve that label for physicians?

  4. Re:Amen! by Cramer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But does your family enjoy your job that much as well? I didn't think so. I wouldn't mind, but my family would object loudly.

    If you ask me, I'd say Christmas should be canceled. It's exciting for children with the gifts and being out of school and all, but for adults, it's just a mess -- the hastle of driving hundreds of miles, the shopping, and the number of others ("the idiots") standing in your way.

  5. Re:Cn U Rd Ths? by aka-ed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone moderated this as off-topic? It was in reply to a complaint about tech support, and tech support is what I am doing here on Chtristmas day!

    Next time read the parent you crack-crazed moderator! Thanks for the Christmas gift, putz!

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    I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
  6. Since you asked by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I told my brother that I love the holidays - it gives me more time to get my work done.

    It's good to know I wasn't the only one working on non-service/tourism-related tasks this holiday season. My workstation of choice: laptop running Linux (2.4.7) and Win4Lin. This gives me a complete web application development environment so that my HTML, SOAP-XML, RDBMS system can be fully developed without an Internet connection. When Ricochet was alive, I didn't need a self-contained system to work at relatives homes, local taverns, the beach (yes, SoCal resident here), on the train... But now I can (and do) work anywhere & everywhere.

    Sad, isn't it?

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