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?

Comments

Working holidays

[jloukinas]

As I sit here opening presents I can't resist the distant hum of a couple nice Ultra 5's:-)

Solaris is my one true weakness..

Jeremy

At work? Try at home.

[chicagothad]

Yea,

You all may be at work rebooting Windoze servers and what-not. But I get the distinct pleasure of sitting at home dialing in (not broadband, mind you) to tend the systems over the lovely 28.8 connection while my realtives are running around talking about medical conditions and "How much spice should I add to this dish of brussel sprouts"?

So, to hell with you people at work who can escape the inevitable questions "What are you doing? shopping at that amazon.com?" and "Can you pay attention to us instead of surfing?" Surfing? Bah! I am running "mission critical" systems while you open your presents and eat your stuffing!

Re:I work at Copper!

[vacamike]

Was it absolutely necessary to say that he is your 'best' friend?

Re:I'm a physician

[ccmay]

Yeah, I said that shortly after the terrorist attacks. I stand by it, too. The "group of people" being referred to is specifically the Al-Qaeda suicide cult, and I still hope we killed as many of the sons of bitches as possible before they got a chance to kill us.

A sociopath acts completely without empathy for the feelings of his fellow man, which is the exact opposite of how I feel about this issue. The horror inflicted on thousands of innocent victims and their tens of thousands of orphans and widows cuts me to the bone, and I want to prevent it from happening again by any means necessary.

This is no more than a sensible public-health measure. The Al-Qaeda are in fact sociopaths, clearly dangerous to every non-Muslim and most Muslims in the world, and they should be hunted down and slaughtered with no more moral concern or regret than we would feel in killing a rabid dog.

Regards,

-ccm

PS. why are you an anonymous coward? I am stating my own controversial opinions under my own name without any apology or bush-beating. Your failure to do likewise suggests that you know I am right and you are wrong.