05/24/2020
10 ways NOT to spend your Holiday Weekend
1. Working from home
Your entire staff is working from home, it's been a few months now and you just got off your third remote video meeting of the day. It's finally Thursday afternoon, almost time for a three day weekend!
2. Talking to developers
Your phone starts to vibrate, "Bzzz"π± new Slack messages from the developers. (I'm sure Bill can handle this, those developers always want some new toy to geek out over, I told them no refactoring for another 30 days!)
3. Troubleshooting the new email server
Then a couple text messages from different people, "Why is my email getting returned, I need these proposals to go out today?" (Sales guys are so high-strung it's a holiday weekend, nobody is going to read that stuff till next week anyway.)
4. Fighting mystery bugs
A direct call from Bill in IT. That's never good π₯π»π₯, what's going on now π±?
In a thick Scottish accent, "Captβn a hae a kinch doon in engineering, ye wilnae hawp this, some kind o' SPAM attack oan th' server."
5. With Bill
6. Setting up another virtual server
7. While your Wife and Kids
8. Wave goodbye
9. And drive down to the lake
10. Again
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