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Next week is my last week, and then I have 2 weeks Christmas holidays.
I work in operations and my performance is measure by uptime and reliability.
Nothing gets changed on a Friday, or the week before holidays.
Tidying up loose ends, training, documentation, ...
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Very busy, but wondering if the upgrade of our main application from .NET 4.8 to .NET 6.0 will ever finish up ... 
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Currently we're a new team in a vertical pillar of the company... no one really knows how it works and we firefighting most of the time.
Joys of out sourced development you are trying to bring back in house
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I finish up next Tuesday. First time in years I have had leave to take and time to take it...
Four days work, and four days work time, and a recently deployed application throwing up occasional "bugs" (unit test, volume test, pilot test by IT, UAT test, test by Santa and all his elves, and still the users will find a way to break stuff that we didn't).
In short blind panic.
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It's End of Year period! I hardly ever have the "Insane Mode" on that period! 
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... my wife and I are moving to a new home Dec 23rd. Beautiful place one block from the beach. I am calling that our Christmas present to each other...
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All of my customers are in K-12 education support. Christmas break for them starts after this Friday and goes through January 3rd, so a little more than 2 weeks. I've got a few days scheduled to travel to see kids/grandkids but other than that, I will be wfh...just without as many interruptions! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Just been made redundant. Done 3 weeks 'extra' (no extra pay) to finish off tasks that I wanted to complete. Now freezing at home (boiler blew up) applying for new roles 
Merry Christmas (or other seasonal event that you celebrate) to you all and may 2023 be a better year than 2022 turned out to be.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Good luck with your search. Sometimes these things happen, just know a better opportunity is out there...
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I feel your pain. They just sold the company I work for, to another company that has its own proprietary software company. I'm doubting they'll want to take me in.
Zach
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Take care and best of luck to you. Hopefully Santa brings you a new job.
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Isn't that this yearly celebration of commercialism, profits and (over)consumption of food, drink and material goods?
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and enjoying the view as much as I can.
I came back to work after a long absence and I already told my boss that I am not going to stress myself like I did before.
So taking it easy while getting a current overview, talking to the people to catch up (both project / professionally and socially), having a lot of emails to get through, a lot of windows updates to do...
I guess I will be able to start being really productive (as much as I can having lazy customers) in the new year.
I'll be working the second week of holidays and I can ensure you that I will enjoy the peace.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's that no-one is around on the run up to Year-End. And I've had a bombshell dropped on my desk with a hard deadline of end of January with two other projects working to the same timelines. And no staff.
I'm going to need a lot of ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) and :wine:
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time to demand a bonus/raise ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Actually ... Raise and promotion coming my way! Got told yesterday  Told Project #1 it was deferred due to bombshell and the Business Owner took it really well...
So all in all my week before Christmas is now in the "Busy finishing up end of year jobs but nothing too insane" space (almost). If only I celebrated Christmas
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At my company we don't allow putting anything in production between coming Friday and the week after New Years.
Doesn't mean work stops, just that we won't allow stupid mistakes to happen because of stupid deadlines.
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About eighteen years ago, a close friend of mine wanted to flee from all this Christmas stress, and rather go away to visit all the friends they had made in Thailand, with no kind of celebration of neither newborns or capitalism ... He suggested this to his family (wife and two small girls), who rejoiced: They would love an end-of-year vacation with their friends. They have been there so many times that they had learned to speak some Thai, and use to live with the local population.
Gradually, my friend realized that his wife was planning to carry along a whole lot of Christmas stash and activities, to show their friends what Norwegian Christmas celebration is like - exactly what my friend wanted to flee from. So they started arguing, resulting in the Thailand plans being dropped.
I visited him the following summer, in 2005. He showed me photos from their last visit, in 2003, with the beach right next to where they used to live where his two little girls of 6 and 8 playing in the sand. If they had gone to Thailand for Christmas 2004, the girls might very well have running around on the same beach in the morning, 26th of December.
All their Thai friends survived, but their houses were washed away, including the one where my friend used to live with his family.
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Can't do much but plan. Maybe do some research.
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We also do that.
Unfortunately, I keep committing myself to DevOps tasks that never get feature frozen, resulting in a lot of loose end to tie up before Q4 is done.
Luckily, they plan to hire someone specifically for DevOps next quarter.
Exactly like last year.
And the year before that.
And the year before that.
But this time will be different guys.
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Kate-X257 wrote: DevOps
Don't get me started.
I suspect that my boss thinks DevOps means that the developers are responsible for operations. 
Of course, we also have no one in Operations anyway.
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I do celebrate sunturn (aka solstice), lifting our glasses at the exact minute that the sun stops it walk towards darkness but turns around towards the next summer.
One of our traditional elements of sunturn celebration is watching the "Rare Exports Inc.", the greatest Christmas Horror Comedy movie ever made. Santa will never be the same after you have watched it.
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I found several "Rare Exports Inc." films ......
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They - that is a Finnish company, WoodpeckerFilms, making short commercial movies for a lot of customers - made a short that was sent to all their customers as a Christmas gift. I believe that was in year 2003. It leaked out to the internet, and made a huge hit.
The short made such a success that the company decided to make a full length feature film, released 2010. The final highlight is closely related to that of the short, but the story leading up to it is certainly quite different.
I do enjoy the short, but the real Christmas story comes in the full length feature film.
If you buy it on CD/DVD, there are a couple of supplementary shorts. Fair enough, but the two of significance are the 2003 short and the 2010 full length feature movie.
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