Re: Hard working? Rant mode Re: W. on the Environment

[Dan Minette]

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From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Hard working? Rant mode Re: W. on the Environment


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>
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> > At 18:04 22-5-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
> >
> > >Have you gone to work on a major holiday to be sure
> > >that things will go right?
> >
> > No, because when you go on a holiday for a few weeks, you make sure
> > other people take over while you're gone, just as you'll do some of
> > their work when they go on vacation. In the higher echelons, it
> > ocassionally happens that someone gets called back from vacation, but
> > things have to get very much out of control before that happens.
>
> I think what Dan was referring to was, do you ever have to go in on
> Christmas, on New Year's, on a day that is a national holiday where
> everyone is supposed to have the day off?  Not vacation, but a special day
> where, in theory, nobody is supposed to work.
>
Yup.  I had to go in to check tests on Thanksgiving because tools I was
responsible for were shipping that next Monday and I had to make sure things
would go right.

Dan M.