Reply to: Anyone else working on this bank holiday?

[BrilloPad]

Got to be in at noon. I have 3 issues on my plate - after that I hope to be filling up the counting thread for the rest of the afternoon/evening.

Fixed my 3 issues - and 3 more came in. Fixed 1st one : 2 to go. If I can be bothered.

[blacjac]

Took some time off to move house in March, so working bank holidays to get some invoicing back!

[MarillionFan]

I'm not, but I am.

Just done an interview screening with a chap in Michigan. No go.
Also have to have a call with my boss and the CIO later, which they moved from Friday which is annoying as it's the BH, but also annoying as I cannot actually not attend it.

[norrahe]

Most take the Friday off; clientco here is doing that.

Not my clientco or Mr N's it seems

[doodab]

Most take the Friday off; clientco here is doing that.

In DE we used to call them bridge days, it was almost expected that people would take them off and nobody ever worked one.

[Mich the Tester]

I also get confused with the upcoming Ascension Thursday off where you don't have the Friday off, weird! Though one clientco last year had the obligatory Friday off as well.

Most take the Friday off; clientco here is doing that.

[norrahe]

Most gummint 'workers' are off and I think many schools are free anyway due to school holidays, and Lady Tester has an obligatory day off, otherwise she would get double pay. It depends on the industry collective agreements. Some industries are free, others not. Ye, every five years the liberation is considered important enough for a general holiday. Bizarre really.

I also get confused with the upcoming Ascension Thursday off where you don't have the Friday off, weird! Though one clientco last year had the obligatory Friday off as well.

[Mich the Tester]

Apparently it will be important enough next year for a holiday, at least the trains were quiet this morning as some people are still off.

Most gummint 'workers' are off and I think many schools are free anyway due to school holidays, and Lady Tester has an obligatory day off, otherwise she would get double pay. It depends on the industry collective agreements. Some industries are free, others not. Ye, every five years the liberation is considered important enough for a general holiday. Bizarre really.

[norrahe]

Indeed; somehow the gummint here don't think the liberation of NL is important enough for a holiday. A lot of people are free here in the sticks though.

Apparently it will be important enough next year for a holiday, at least the trains were quiet this morning as some people are still off.

[Mich the Tester]

There's no bank holiday here

Indeed; somehow the gummint here don't think the liberation of NL is important enough for a holiday. A lot of people are free here in the sticks though.

[alreadypacked]

Had a 3 day week last week.

[norrahe]

There's no bank holiday here

[Mich the Tester]

[Bacchus]

Hmmm...

Digging: debugging someone else's code
Leaning on a for looking at the results of your hard work: smoke-testing
Sitting back and having a beer whilst the vegetables grow: contracting (c:

I think the vegetable patch is where the BAs sit though...

[mudskipper]

You could also try pushing the limits of gardening as a metaphor for software development e.g.

Vegetable patch = source code control system
Weeding = refactoring
Back of the shed = code nobody dares to touch cos they don't know how it works and don't really care to find out

Lying on the sunbed = waiting for code to compile