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

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 20:02 23-5-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:

> > 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.

So far, I've never had to work on holidays like Christmas, Easter etcetera. 
For the last 12 years, I've been working as an administrative clerk, which 
didn't require working on holidays (I wasn't up high enough in the 
hierarchy for that).

It might very well happen to me in the future, though, now that I work as a 
ICT Administrator for the Defense Department. Defending the country and 
supporting troops abroad is, after all, a 24/7 job -- you just can't say to 
an invading country: "hold the invasion for a moment, please, we are 
experiencing some computer problems".   :)


Jeroen

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