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

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

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Post by Shared404 »

pjerem wrote: post #64

My grandmother is hospitalized at home after a huge stroke. Her nurse just left our house for the second time of this Christmas Day for taking care of her while we were in family. Thanks to his work, I was able to spend Christmas with my family, including my grandmother. That’s some badass important job.

Side note:

I don't know how many people on HN are nurses/doctors, but thank you all for everything over the past couple years, especially now.

We as a society have failed you guys, I just wish we could all do better.

Edit: Just realized this could read as me criticizing GP, this is not what I intended, this comment just made me realize this sentiment more fully.

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

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Post by tsol »

omarhaneef wrote: post #29

There are lots of people for who Xmas isn’t a thing — different background etc. I always thought it would make sense to let us handle Xmas duty so others — people for whom it really, really matters - can do their Xmas stuff. I used to try to volunteer for this when it was relevant (really, it’s not a thing for me), but I rarely saw a systematic opportunity to do so. I think it gets harder as time goes because the rep…

I try to do this as well, and in exchange they usually are good about me taking my holidays off(in my case Eid). To me it's just another Saturday, so why not-- I see how much it means to people who celebrate it. Getting time and a half is nice too

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

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Post by ido »

mabbo wrote: post #59
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.

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?

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

pkdpic wrote: post #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 m…

> 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.

I’m not following your logic here. How is this a negative thing? OP is literally praising people for their dedication with good faith intentions.

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

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Post by aerovistae »

systemvoltage wrote: post #95
pkdpic wrote: post #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 m…

> 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. I’m not following your logic here. How is this a negative thing? OP is literally praising people for their dedication with good faith intentions.

Because it could be interpreted to imply that "even if your job isn't important, lots of us have jobs that are." I think it's the "truly" that makes it just slightly ambiguous. Maybe if they had said "also working" to make it sound like the audience was included in the statement, idk.

I don't think it was negative, but I can definitely see how someone could take it that way. I saw a glimmer of it.

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

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Post by tharkun__ »

systemvoltage wrote: post #95
pkdpic wrote: post #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 m…

> 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. I’m not following your logic here. How is this a negative thing? OP is literally praising people for their dedication with good faith intentions.

I had the same thinking as you after reading the first part about it sounding negative. I didn't read it like that at all.

The last part makes it clear though. Child education is a truly important job.

I think emphasis also changes this subtly. I.e. did you read it in a neutral "truly important jobs" way or for example with emphasis only truly. "_truly_ important jobs_". Like "yeah yeah educator is important but not really. Only these other jobs are the really important ones, like burger flipper at McD". Well to be honest that does read quite negative to me!

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

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Post by mobilefriendly »

mabbo wrote: post #59
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.

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

Let's hope Starship lift capacity will make Webb obsolete in a decade!

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

tharkun__ wrote: post #97
systemvoltage wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. I’m not following your logic here. How is this a negative thing? OP is literally praising people for their dedication with good faith intentions.

I had the same thinking as you after reading the first part about it sounding negative. I didn't read it like that at all. The last part makes it clear though. Child education is a truly important job. I think emphasis also changes this subtly. I.e. did you read it in a neutral "truly important jobs" way or for example with emphasis only truly. "_truly_ important jobs_". Like "yeah yeah educator is important but not…

It's so subtle, I am willing to give OP the benefit of the doubt. This level of pedantry in a rather innoucious post is kind of worrying though. Sorry to bring this up at all, since I was confused.

Happy holidays!

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

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Post by eganist »

mobilefriendly wrote: post #98
mabbo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Let's hope Starship lift capacity will make Webb obsolete in a decade!

Doubtful considering how long it took to put JWST together. What, 30 years almost?

Granted a lot of that was scope creep but nonetheless, I'm betting it's not launch capacity that's the bottleneck.

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