From a business standpoint, the best day to have Christmas (and, therefore, New Year’s Day (and, therefore, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve)) is probably on a Sunday. That way, everything happens over the weekend and maybe you’ll lose a Friday, maybe you’ll lose a Monday, and maybe you’ll lose both but you can probably get people into the office in the middle of the week.
Something like having Christmas on a Friday? Well, you’ve pretty much lost the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
The worst is probably something like Christmas on a Wednesday. *MAYBE* you can get people in on the Monday before, *MAYBE*. If so, you *MIGHT* be able to squeeze out a half day on Tuesday if you’ve got some workaholics. But they’re gone from Wednesday through the next Wednesday and the following Thursday/Friday just isn’t going to happen either.
I suppose some places will have weird weeks where people come in on Monday and Friday with two craters in the middle of the week… but I don’t work for one of those places. Everybody has said “I’m gone for two weeks” and set up auto-response emails and… well, they’re the people who I need to talk to in order to do *MY* job.
Of course, the last thing I had to do before the long break was test a particular thing and I went into it thinking “we’re going to be great and then I only have to work two hours on Friday and then IT IS THE WEEKEND and, of course, the dang thing didn’t test green. It tested red. And I went in and found where the problem is and pointed it out to the engineer who built it and after the usual “did you turn it off and back on again?” and “are you sure you tested it correctly?” interrogations, we found that, yes, it needs to be rebuilt and instead of a 2-hour day before the weekend, it looks like a full day on Friday and, oh gosh, maybe a full day on Monday and a half day on Tuesday.
Sigh. But, at least, Wednesday through the week after should be fine.
Which means that this weekend will be spent stocking up so that we won’t have to leave the house for anything except visiting family, friends, and the occasional walk around the block.
Oh, and a game night.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “CPAP”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
I’m done at 1330 today and will be working from home Monday and Tuesday as my workplace will be closed. After today I won’t have to see this place until 2 January. Woo! I even got to send one of those “I’m out after today until next year” emails this morning. More Woo!Report
We did the “We’re closed between Christmas and New Year’s!” thing for a while but then the pandemic happened. We went from “no electricity/no heat in the building, except for the room with the security guard (with space heater)” to “okay, fine… but turn the lights out if you’re not in the room anymore!”
It was better when they shut down the building.Report
I envy the people who get the two weeks off off. Since I became an in-house lawyer I’ve spent the time in an on call capacity. On the one hand, no one is really looking for me in the normal sense. On the other there are are contracts that need to be completed by years end, last call here, final edit there, with the added complicating factor that many of the people in the process are suddenly unreachable. However there are certainly much worse things, and at least I can do it all from my desk at home.Report
I just got the call: The initial fix didn’t work. We have a metadata problem with the modular packages.
So… I’m working tomorrow if I don’t want to work Monday.
So… yeah. I envy them too.Report
That’s life as a big shot!Report
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LOL!Report
Is it, like, metadata for the packages in the repo? Can you just recreate the repo metadata using “createrepo”?Report
That’s what we’re doing. But then we have to upload it past the thing that sniffs everything and then I have to download it past it.
If I get it downloaded before 6PM, I’ll be surprised.Report
The bad news, I didn’t get my stuff until this morning at around 9.
The good news, IT CHECKED OUT.
It is now vacation, a mere hour before we get to go over to Mom’s for roast chicken and Encanto.Report
Well, I feel like I deserve my 3 weeks off after teaching four different classes, serving on two job search committees, moving ALL the lab equipment for my classes next semester because renovations, and preparing to deal with being exiled to other campus buildings, including one where they apparently don’t really want us, and dealing with some upheaval at church.
Things can be someone else’s problem for a little whileReport
I know we say this every year but next year should calm down a little.
And, yeah, this should be someone else’s problem. For at least three weeks.Report
This is my second Christmas with the new company… and the best thing ever is that our FY ends Jan 31.
So after 20+ years of trying to close EOY deals with CIO’s in Switzerland and approvers approving between bumpers of eggnog at random times… I find that I have none of my bosses asking about that deal that I’m trying to close next month.
And I have absolutely no questions for Legal… So, Merry Christmas.
[somehow my boss still scheduled a 1:1 on Monday… but I refuse to believe it’s real]Report
Our main biz is Medicare Advantage enrollment, and CMS decided to make a crap-ton of regulatory changes this year effective 1/1/2025, with not nearly enough notice for us to properly plan — so now we have a traffic jam getting all our clients all their needed updates in time. We didn’t anticipate this when liberally granting time off, so those of us with the most wringable necks will have a busy Christmastime scrambling to find the resources to test, deploy, deal with fallout & unhappy clients, etc.Report
I am at my mom’s house so for once I get to do what I want.
Which, right now, is baking Christmas cookies. I have the dough for “roll outs” chilling, and also dough for a peppermint shortbread, and shortly I’ll make date bars.
Yes, it’s just her and me, but we give to a number of friends and neighbors….Report