25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work • Hacker News Board

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by hahajk » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:29 PM UTC

ido wrote: post #94

mabbo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a Christmas every year. A major telescope launch is apparently once a generation.

So why couldn’t they delay the lunch by a week so everyone could spend Christmas with their families and then launch it?

There very specific times you can launch to establish desired orbits. Typically these windows only come once every month or two.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by dlivingston » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

hashimotonomora wrote: post #31

Thank you for being grateful. Please also note that Christmas is not a thing for a lot of people. Jews, Chinese, Muslims.

Yawn. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday, yet those from all faiths and cultures celebrate it. I am an atheist and it is my favorite holiday by far. I know Jews and Buddhists and Hindus who celebrate.

It is a cultural holiday, not a religious holiday. This is a very important point.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by rationalfaith » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

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Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by skapadia » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

ido wrote: post #94

mabbo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a Christmas every year. A major telescope launch is apparently once a generation.

So why couldn’t they delay the lunch by a week so everyone could spend Christmas with their families and then launch it?

The launching of this telescope is FAR more important and beneficial to humanity than an arbitrary holiday that celebrates the winter solstice.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by seanw444 » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

rootbear wrote: post #11

Quite a few of my NASA colleagues worked today to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, and I'm sure most of them didn't mind working on Christmas. And I certainly appreciate all of those who work on the holidays to keep us safe.

If any of them are reading this comment section, thank you NASA engineers for launching such an awesome Christmas present. I'm looking very forward to seeing the photos of the successor to the Hubble. Hubble had already given us such historical photos, and now we'll have an even better picture. Truly a landmark in history if all goes well.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by hashimotonomora » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

dlivingston wrote: post #102

hashimotonomora wrote: post #31

Thank you for being grateful. Please also note that Christmas is not a thing for a lot of people. Jews, Chinese, Muslims.

Yawn. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday, yet those from all faiths and cultures celebrate it. I am an atheist and it is my favorite holiday by far. I know Jews and Buddhists and Hindus who celebrate. It is a cultural holiday, not a religious holiday. This is a very important point.

Christmas is literally Christ’s mass. If there’s a widespread religious celebration it’s that.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by atlgator » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #70

rasengan wrote: post #42

I work every day - the world moves too fast. Regulations are the new moats, but holidays and weekends were the moats in the past -- 260 days in a year vs 365 - who will produce more?

There is more to life than how much one can produce, surely. You may be interested in a little piece of literature called A Christmas Carol - the core of the message is as accurate now as it was when it was written, if not more so, and I personally believe that core applies whether you celebrate Christmas or not. (I'm obviously being a little facetious as I assume most if not all of us are intimately familiar with th…

+1 for the Patrick Stewart version

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by cafard » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:52 PM UTC

I think that the last time I worked on Christmas I was a busboy, likely at a Holiday Inn. That really doesn't compare with work in health care or public safety, but I'm sure that the customers--some of them probably employed in critical work--were grateful for clean tables and coffee refills.

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by Symbiote » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:54 PM UTC

rootveg wrote: post #84

This 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

Hopefully you can claim back the vacation days.

(I don't know if this is all of the EU/EEA/UK, or just some countries.)

Re: 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

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Post by maerF0x0 » Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 7:56 PM UTC

erikpukinskis wrote: post #74

maerF0x0 wrote: post #71

And to think there's a strange few who want to suggest that you important folks who work overtime, are on call 24/7 for dangerous high demand jobs should not earn more than those of us who don't? Well I hope you keep being compensated, and I hope you'll accept my thanks (I'm on HN as a time kill as I wait for my family to call me)

Who said that?

Those who want same pay for same title and experience w/o variance in looking at very difficult to price details like overtime, contribution, and sacrificing family time for work etc.