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In the US this coming Monday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day weekend is a very popular travel time and many people will be taking today off to extend those trips
by tssva 4y ago
In the US this coming Monday is Memorial Day. Memorial Day weekend is a very popular travel time and many people will be taking today off to extend those trips an additional day. Hopefully no GitHub engineers will be forced to sacrifice such plans.
- joshvm 4y agoI would imagine this is mostly the domain of on-call engineers/SREs (wasn't this historically a problem that was fixed by a reboot?) and you have to assume that you're going to be called at 4AM on a Saturday morning. So even booking vacation when you're on shift is risky, and unfortunately that means someone has to work public holidays. Good companies will give you a day off in lieu. Having done on-call work, the most annoying bugs are the ones that you feel could be automated (especially when the pager goes off when you're asleep). Not to say that I hope these guys get called out, but it's the nature of the job.
- tssva 4y agoI have managed many on-call people during my career. I hated whenever one of my guys actually had to answer a call. It meant we had failed somewhere and needed to get better. I certainly didn't accept it as just the nature of the job.
- nix23 4y ago>It meant we had failed somewhere and needed to get better. That is the work-ethic i would love to see from all manager. Excellent attitude to life/work.