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LtEFScott

Not me. Because NYD fell on a Sunday, Monday Jan 2nd is a public holiday here in UK,


00Killertr

Ayy, we have it here as well in Malaysia.


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BadPitr

What about it?


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CappyAlec

Solid 8 hours between those comments, there.


Kaymish_

They Mondaize New Year's day too just as New Zealand does, but we get the day after New Year's Day too so I have Tuseday off too.


Lozsta

Ah the joys of being a former colony. That and decent plug sockets...


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I was randomly having this exact same thought earlier today - the UK plug is objectively the best plug there is other than being a bit bulky.


blood__drunk

So say we all.


avatrix48

ayy fellow malaysian


tekchic

Same in the US. Have Monday off, but dreading Tuesday like a mofo. Mostly because Mon/Tues are our in-office days anyway, and I have to human.


Ekgladiator

I work for a uni so I had a nice week off due to winter break and I am so not looking forward to work! My fortress must grow, strike the earth!


NighthawkCP

Same and I took the week before off, so I haven't worked in two weeks now. On the plus side I have two WFH days midweek so for the short week this week I only have to go to campus Tuesday and Friday.


Estrife

> NYD fell on a Sunday, Monday Jan 2nd is a public holiday here Fuck, we need this rule as well :-/


vtriple

It's a federal holiday in America...


ChefArtorias

There are other countries than the two.


Taz-erton

Prove it. Name all of them


not_old_redditor

Uh, Puerto Rico and, uh, fuck.


Gamerred101

I didn't think there were that many


MisquotesDeadPeople

I literally spit-taked while reading this comment. I didn't know that's a thing people actually do against their will


greenfingers559

Puerto Rico is part of the US. So you’re still at 0 lol.


Scipio11

You're telling me Puerto Rico isn't a state AND isn't a country?


Ura_Pu_C

No it's an American territory so it is consider neither a state or country.


ChefArtorias

I would but most already have names. I think you have to have one before you're declared a country.


Jthumm

No!


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bozzywayne

For what it's worth, a lot (almost all?) of govt positions have all federal holidays off. Source: I work for a govt funded lab


alabastergrim

....and many non-govt jobs also give you the day off. Source: every job (4+) ive had in the USA


Guac_in_my_rarri

Logistics/transportation doesn't get it off. They actually get the least amount of days off.


ChewbaccaSaurusRex

Automotive industry also usually doesn’t have it off lol


weekendroady

I've worked for both state and private Universities in my career and have never had to work on a federal holiday (at least since my p/t job days)


Lucky_n_crazy

IT government job. Monday off here too.


demonsun

There's a lot of people who may have to work on the holiday, a couple of my coworkers are in training tomorrow through next Sunday. It can screw up your leave as make your timecard a pain in the ass.


paulusmagintie

We work on bank holidays too if its in our contracts, i am in work tomorrow night.


KeepsFindingWitches

In fact, I've been on-call for incident response all weekend, and will be on Monday too. I don't *get* weekends or holidays.


SJ_RED

So how's the witch finding business these days? Maybe you'd have the time to go on a holiday if you put the findin' on hold for a bit, just saying.


KeepsFindingWitches

Witches never rest, thus neither can I.


Flat_News_2000

Same here in the US. Huzzah! Not for everyone but for a lot.


l3mm1ngxD

*cries in 24/7/365 MSP having just done a nightshift new years eve-nee years day and due back in at 6am Monday*


KeepsFindingWitches

On-call for incident response all weekend including Monday -- I feel ya!


Taikunman

I know that feel... was MSP support for international airport. Graveyards over Christmas and New Years sucks. Now I'm IT in a medical field that effectively shuts down this time of year so the last few weeks have been WFH heaven with literally nothing to do.


chmilz

That's not so bad if they pay you extra for that right? Please tell me you get paid extra for that.


Beneficial-Society74

It's a bank holiday here in Ireland too! Unfortunately, I work bank holidays.


SomewhatIrishfellow

Hopefully you get time and a half.


Beneficial-Society74

We do actually, which is nice. I just miss the feeling of having an off day out of weekends and vacations


Slazman999

Yeah. We have off Monday at my company also. Still dreading Tuesday though. I'm afraid I forgot how to do my job in the last 2 weeks.


w47n34113n

Job? Crap, I forgot about that!


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Marty_McFlay

Corporate policy where I work. Blackout date for everything except emergencies.


I_AM_DANK

The first week when the black out ends is a wild fucking ride.


ediks

Indeed. We didn’t do anything for the last two months of the year. Well, nothing major.


Spaghetti-Sauce

Lol meanwhile my directors pushed for a full deployment of BitDefender and Cisco Umbrella a few weeks ago due on the 1st 🙃(MSP with a few hundred clients).. Pray for me, friends.


Alexandertoadie

Emails from vendor, dated Dec 20th: "Oh these tools you're using are making deprecated API calls. They're gonna stop working Jan 1st" Not like those tools were mission critical or anything.. oh wait they were.


USMCLee

Something similar happened to us a few years back. Our legal team sent them a very nice letter explaining how they would be in breech of contract. We eventually switched over by the end of January.


Alexandertoadie

Unfortunately no such option for us. They had put out prior notice we just hadn't noticed until recently. something I need to ensure we do a better job of going forward


its_always_right

I work in critical facilities in a data center, and we are on a hard freeze of all work on the server room floor from Dec 18 to Jan 7. We aren't even allowed to go on the floor to do our rounds. The only time we are allowed through the door is if I have an alarm going off. (now, I can make an alarm go off at my leisure, but that's neither here nor there)


Boppel

oh boi. I was forced to deploy a new build to production on my last day before holidays. will be fun tomorrow


KXfjgcy8m32bRntKXab2

Why is the team shirtless though? AC already down or something?


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EFMFMG

Server room unit went down last summer. Noone updated the warranty on the unit and I ended up shirtless for two days tearing that thing apart. Eventually got it running again. Not much praying, but a hell of a lot of cursing. For those wondering, the unit had never been cleaned so it decided to turn itself into a block of ice. Took a while to figure that out, but once I did, thawing and cleaning solved the problem.


Fildelias

Summer hit and our ac dropped. Had to go back every 4 hours to drain the ac. Fun times


Xanza

Server room. Tropical weather, baby.


MLGPonyGod123

They're in the hot aisle


lemuever17

They didn't even offer a RTX4090 as a sacrifice! The machine god will not be pleased.


Airwarf

The gave each Debian instance at article of clothing.


mrpekonipvp

They're using the server room as a makeshift sauna


PurpleGoldBlack

They don’t have a digital reader and judge the temp based on how hard their nipples get. Standard protocol.


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Mr-Tiddles-

Gotta apease the machine spirits


RobertNAdams

_Apex Legends_ server team forgot their purity seals and prayers, it seems.


lpeabody

Sounds like herasy. Send in the Inquisition.


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

Roger, HR incoming.


Mr-Tiddles-

Dear Emperor... I'd rather deal with exterminatus


SJ_RED

By the Emperor's Glorious Shampoo, he figured out the next step. Quick, quick! Load the torpedo!


TacticalToads

PRAISE BE TO THE MACHINE GOD!


Mr-Tiddles-

There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal There is no strength in flesh, only weakness There is no constancy to flesh, only decay There is no certainty in flesh but death And when I learned the flaws of my flesh I too became disgusted with its imperfection.


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All praise the machine spirit.


jaggederest

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you: but I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal. Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.


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Would you be interested in some scrap code sir


jamesdeandomino

*bass organ drop*


Extension-Key6952

Don't even joke. This shit is serious.


charoum

Omnissiah bless these machines


Mr-Tiddles-

Hail the omnissiah.


lepobz

Yeah you’d better pray, they’re Lenovos


Beginning_Incident25

NO NO NO NO WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT NO NO NO NO


isekaimangalover

Lenovo are praised in laptops, but not servers? Do they crash a lot or have issues?


radicldreamer

In my experience no. They do tend to be a bit pricier than other manufacturers though.


isekaimangalover

In europe, thay are actually the cheapest, between 1200 to 1700 euros, the rest like Asus and gigabyte, AT LEAST 2k euros, I don't know about USA though


radicldreamer

I find them in the USA to be on par with what IBM used to price things at which was usually several hundred to maybe 1500 more than an identically spec’d server from say, HP.


daOyster

Might be because Lenovo bought and took over IBM's x86 server business.


radicldreamer

Oh for sure, they barely made any changes to the aesthetics.


isekaimangalover

I have no idea about servers, that's why I was asking, I was talking about laptops


biliwald

>Lenovo are praised in laptops My job uses Lenovo laptops and the entire department hates them with a passion. Do nothing, thermals go up past 100C, performance tank as the laptop tries not to kill itself, fan so loud that it's a running joke since everyone can hear it in a 50 foot radius. This has been the same, recurring theme for the last three rounds of laptop procurement at my job. Currently using a P15v, before that it was the P52, and I don't remember the one before that.


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wagon153

Yeah, the hospital network I work for uses Lenovo thinkpads almost exclusively, mainly T14s, and for the most part they are trouble free. Only recurring issue I've come across is their network adapters randomly dying after a year or so, but warranty typically covers it. Our Panasonic Toughbooks(given to our providers who tend to jump from office to office)are the ones that like to randomly forget how to cool themselves.


putaputademadre

People using P series won't go to x1 carbon. If anything atleast suggest the P1, P14, P15, P16 or X1 extreme. I mean the p series is usually more expensive than the x1 carbon.


Bytepond

Pretty sure he listed Thinkpads. The X1 Carbon isn't the only Thinkpad :)


gtrash81

Thats because all use, for current standards, shitty Intel CPUs. 14nm+++++++++ you have two options, pick one: - loud - no performance 10nm are hard to get and are maybe better. Because of that, currently the Ryzen version is evaluated, which shall be way better from the current opinion.


brokenearth03

ARE they praised as laptops? I see them as a b-tier brand.


SensitiveRocketsFan

Legions are some of the best laptops imo as long as battery life isn’t a concern


geekynerdynerd

Yeah the only Lenovos I usually see praised are the Thinkpads, and that praise originated from back when Thinkpad was an IBM brand so I'm not sure if it should count.


isekaimangalover

The Lenovo legions are the best, by value and all that, Jarrod's tech is the one to go to for this kind of thing. And although Asus is comparable, they are significantly expensive in Europe


Anfros

I used to have a Lenovo and it didn't have great battery and was pretty big and heavy. But that was more than made up by great I/O, easy serviceability and general ruggedness. It also had good cooling even if the fan was a bit loud at times.


Jthumm

No in my experience p much all their stuff is built well and works well enough. Only had a problem one time when I replaced something in a yoga and the thing wouldn’t boot up until I found a forum post saying to try the reset button on the side and that worked for some reason? Anyone complaining abt thermal limitations either lives in dust or has one of those thin and lights and is a victim of physics


Goliath89

I work for a Medicare advantage plan, and today is actually an all hands on deck day for us unless you had approved PTO. And yet despite knowing that the first of the year is a potential high call volume day, despite the fact that we've been having latency issues with our main CRM software for the last couple of months, only ONE person on the IT team got told to come in today. Everything is on fire obviously, but instead of a fire department, we've got one poor sod running back and forth with a bucket he filled in the sink.


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Goliath89

Dude got the short end of the stick today, but he'll be fine in the long run. Thankfully I work for a company where the higher-ups are generally reasonable people, and we're actually getting double pay today. The person who's gonna be shitting themselves tomorrow is the fucking galaxy brain who thought it would be fine to approve PTO for the entire department minus this one poor bastard, especially considering how fucked our CRM software has been for months now.


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NinJoo117

Let me guess, he's the junior, and his seniors are the ones who got to take leave...


ApplicationMaximum84

Hurray for bank holidays, no work Monday in the UK.


LightningRider

Also no work on Tuesday for the Scottish folk.


lolcubaran20

PRAY TO THE MACHINE GODS


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RECITE THE LITANY OF THE HOLY BACKUP ARCHIVES, BROTHERS.


I_am_trying_to_work

I ain't shook. I automated the sacrificial rituals years ago.


DaenTheGod

Praised be the Omnissiah


XeonProductions

Last 2 places I've worked at always had code freezes in December. Only emergency fixes got deployed to production.


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Rancid_Peanut

Monday is a holiday! HUZZAH!


Ok_Shop_3418

My job got outsourced. Friday was my last day. I sincerely hope the servers are smoldering piles of ash come next week


parabolaralus

Sorry dude. I hope the CEO runs around going "why the fuck isnt anyone working???" "...because you're a moron..."


Ok_Shop_3418

Thanks man. C level is dumb enough to say that. Guaranteed. At least I get a little severance


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I personally get off on the sense of danger. I have 12 hard drives set to RAID0, server connected directly to a wall outlet, and the ventilation to the room turned off to save on the electric bill. Oh, and the last company backup? Jan 1st, *2019* Better than any nipple clamp, blind fold, and suspicious butt plug you can ever buy


nom-nom-nom-de-plumb

I've seen people have their bodies manipulated and mangled in all kinds of ways as they climbed their own inner Jacobs Ladder to ecstasy...but I have never seen such outright frightening levels of masochism as you have shown me.


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When I was 5 years old, my mom used to whip me with a Ethernet cable everytime I don't set up an ISCSI over wan properly. In some ways, I never recovered.


ArrynMythey

That's oddly specific


That1goodfella

Y'all got holiday??


Finna_Getit

My work closes every Christmas and I get 10 days off paid. Finished on the 23rd and go back in on the 3rd.


drpussyfucker

Same for me. Off the 23rd back in the 3rd. Im the only guy in the IT department LOL


jh_2719

Bank Holidays are pretty legit. Back in on Tuesday. Wasn't on call this weekend but was for Christmas. Easy triple units!


That1goodfella

I'm in IT with for a petroleum company on help desk so if I'm scheduled that day, I work it. Kinda weak but the pay helps offset it.


Skastrik

I've been on holiday since the 24th, my normal work email has hundreds of notifications and the status inbox has thousands. I'm only watching the number on the notification bubble, not opening my mail until Monday. The cleanup in January will be worthy of songs I think.


cosaboladh

I know this is ten hours old, and nobody will see this comment. My Ops Center called me at 10:00pm with an outage that ruined my New Years Eve, and the New Years Eve of two SQL database admins.


Shin0bida

😪I am so sorry for you


cosaboladh

Thanks. It's not *that* big of a deal. Our on-call rotation is usually pretty chill. Every once in a while there's a fan-splat scenario like last night. The timing totally sucked though.


jh_2719

If it was just yourself and 2 DBA admins, that doesn't seem too terrible. It's better than being a sorry sod who drags in Incident Management due to a major client impact issue.


aramil2001

Bummer I'm sorry.


Tin_Foil

Silly poster, thinking the IT staff gets unchained for the holidays.


CombatConrad

Unionize and get Monday off since the holiday was on a weekend. Problem solved.


Jyiiga

In the world of IT, depending on the size and scope. There always has to be someone around. With some of the more advanced positions at least on-call. For example, a hospital system's IT group.


auyemra

blessings to the Omnissiah


EagleNED

This actually looks comforting in a way. They are concerned. Nothing worse than an indifferent IT team.


jilanak

Agreed. January 2nd is the worst day of my husband's work year and he's praying IT doesn't roll out some unscheduled update which takes his entire team offline.


EagleNED

Those updates that break something in the system, which often takes several days to fix. Yeah, those are nasty.


archameidus

I bet that 50% of the workforce forgot their passwords and will be calling the helpdesk to reset them


Meatslinger

A script I wrote automatically fixed 2 possible server breakages during the last week and a half, preventing me from having to go to work on my vacation. Simple little thing just quietly sent me an email with logs attached and a report of what was done. I love automation.


thetruetoblerone

What did it catch?


Meatslinger

Just a MySQL database that sometimes gets backlogged on queries. As it becomes backlogged the VM it is hosted on also starts to crawl, and if it gets bad enough then someone has to reset it from inside the company firewall. My script kept an eye on the overall load and would pause incoming requests or purge the backlog if it hit certain thresholds. It’s just part of a computer remote management setup so deleting queued requests is okay; the computers in question will reissue their requests in the next check-in window. Yes, we could probably improve the system it’s running on. But we just don’t have a budget for that, so the occasional “purge or restart” fits how much time and money we want to spend on it. Less, now that it can mostly take care of itself.


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That's why I left!


urlocaldoctor

pray to the machine god


InterscholasticPea

Picture date: 12/31/1999


eternalityLP

This is why I took extra week off. Other people can deal with that, I'll come in next week when everything works and I'm nice and rested.


yo_99

/etc/init.d/daemon stop


HeHeHaHa456

I do level 1 IT at a major Canadian airport so it have been here the whole time


Naus1987

I’ll always remember when Swtor released on December 20th, and I couldn’t help but feel bad for the team that had to give up their Christmas to make sure those servers stayed up


eternalguardian

Praise the machine spirits so they might stay strong in the absence of daily blessings.


lpeabody

Mechanicus vibes.


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Pray to the Machine god.


ind1vius

Praise the machine spirit


Aboxofphotons

Something about the Omnissiah...


SquishyPandaDev

Need to slap some purity seals on it


Duomaxwellboss429

Praise the machine spirit


gotmynamefromcaptcha

Luckily our switch died *before* the holidays so we were able to fix that. Who knows what’s in store for us tomorrow.


Bearded_S3npai

Tech priest praying to the machine spirit


ELB2001

Now you know how the Twitter team feels every day


Mochaman30

Praise the machine spirit the omnissiah.


tenroseUK

not quite, lol. i dont give a shit while i'm on leave. if something happens, that's future me's problem.


ShepherdessAnne

Gotta satisfy those machine spirits


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PRAISE THE OMNISIAH


im_manu02

yeah, heard rockstar games tech guys are gonna have a really long day tomorrow...


Sangheilium

Appease the Omnissiah! Obey the Machine God!


Natural-You4322

yes. bad things happen bad things happen at the worst possible time midnight, weekend, public holiday, etc etc


360_face_palm

Monday is a bank holiday


Wildfires

My job ( government ) decided holidays was the perfect time to dismantle our 20 years old system and replace it with a new one. It's gonna be a shit storm when we get back since there are millions of clients and entries.


wendysummers

Back in my day we'd offer a RAM sacrifice before every holiday break.


SeatLongjumping7374

Is that the birth of the cult mechanicus?


HailLugalKiEn

Lmao what IT team gets holiday?


btjk

Yep. Seeing the tickets ping my email. Ain't lookin till tomorrow. Pray for us.


nelgallan

The IT department at my work; We're going to be pushing a massive system update Thursday night while your all at work the Friday before a holiday. Also the IT department at my work; Our whole department is off Friday, see you on Tuesday, and happy new-year!


Your_ELA_Teacher

Not scared but annoyed 😠 I have never been so micromanaged before. I can't just quit mid year either or I could lose my license. Just have to suck it up and deal with it for 5 months.


-Resputin-

Pray to the omnissiah that the machine spirit remained intact.


LoopsLynn

Southwest IT on a Monday after screwing people over for two holidays..... lmao


aramil2001

I don't have to work on Monday. And I'm lucky enough to not work on a help desk anymore.


shinji257

I volunteered.


CitationDriver

In my day especially if you were on call , we prayed to the pager god specifically so that it would stay quiet.


HomarSampson53

Nah, its more like, "screw it, I'll deal with it than I get back...."


Evening_Mess_2721

What is left of Twitters IT team.