I remember oncall during Christmas for cloud provider almost no pages all day, easy money
25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
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#82Yep. Still patching log4j.
I had to do a patch tuesday for 6 hours even though I had the whole week off. Ugh.`
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#83Why can't you do your job remotely?
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#84This year I had vacation for Christmas and New Years... but then I got covid on a plane to SF. I stayed 10 days in quarantine in a hotelroom (with only two days of mild symptoms). Today I finished quarantine and tomorrow ill be flying back to europe... thank you everyone who worked through Christmas and thank you for your service sandworm101
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#85A job being done during holidays is not necessarily vital or truly important . Working at the hospital is a vital job, keeping an important server running is a vital job and driving a mass transit bus is a vital job as well. On the other hand keeping McDonald's open is not vital, it is just economically sensible.
Traveling families and busy 'essential workers' need food, gas, and basic necessities. Access to quick food (McDonalds in this case), gas stations, and convenience stores are just as vital as anything!
>Convenience stores are as vital as anything!
How come it is illegal to keep them open during public holidays in much of Europe then? I find hospitals a tad more important.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a very common misconception about the military. The uniform makes life easier. I never have to worry about fashion. I never have to figure out what is or is not appropriate attire for a specific meeting. It is very liberating. >> about making an effort at dressing that correlates with wanting to make a bigger effort in general. If you want to make the effort, military uniforms allow that too. The military is…
Don’t you have several dress uniforms for different occasions? Like three different ones? Combat, normal, and formal?
Yup, but the rules are very clear as to when you wear each. 95% of the time I wear the combat camo stuff, which is great because you don't need to even iron it. Since covid has stopped most gathering/parades I haven't put on the more formal uniform in over a year.
Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
#87Why can't you do your job remotely?
They’re doing a military job that involves “rooms without windows” and potentially emergency situations.
Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
#88A job being done during holidays is not necessarily vital or truly important . Working at the hospital is a vital job, keeping an important server running is a vital job and driving a mass transit bus is a vital job as well. On the other hand keeping McDonald's open is not vital, it is just economically sensible.
Traveling families and busy 'essential workers' need food, gas, and basic necessities. Access to quick food (McDonalds in this case), gas stations, and convenience stores are just as vital as anything!
_Just_ as vital? If you had to choose between closing a hospital or a McDonald's, you would choose at random?
I hear what you are saying. Gas stations are vital transitively from the vital jobs that require gas, such as ambulance services. But I could still rank them as less vital than the services themselves, enabling me to at least close some gas stations. Fast food would be far down the list because it is predictable and trivial to plan around.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure having to wear a uniform gets tiresome. But always dressing comfy means you never get to express that side. Having only used the office once a week in the last many months, I would consistently overdress when making an appearance. There is something nice about making an effort at dressing that correlates with wanting to make a bigger effort in general.
That is a very common misconception about the military. The uniform makes life easier. I never have to worry about fashion. I never have to figure out what is or is not appropriate attire for a specific meeting. It is very liberating. >> about making an effort at dressing that correlates with wanting to make a bigger effort in general. If you want to make the effort, military uniforms allow that too. The military is…
Dont the fighter pilots try to sound cool on the radio though? Like pracficing speaking with a certain accent. At least that's what was said in that SR71 story.
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#90> remember that all across the world are millions of other people working the truly important jobs
Im going to assume this wasn't intenional but it came off as a little negative given the rest of the positivity in this sweet message.
It just got me thinking about underpaid educators and childcare workers who for the most part are off today. Really everyone, we're all in this together right? Keeping this whole crazy machine running for each other.
Regardless this was a nice thing to see bubble up today, merry christmas HN!