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The only solution I see is launching the boss into space at relativistic velocity so he only experiences 20 minutes passing until Jackie returns from vacation, pushes her changes, and the build runs. (bringing him back to Earth optional)
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He needs to take the Initech people with him then. A nice excursion.
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Do like Scotty didn't do to the tribbles: transport them all directly into space and be done with the problem.
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I'd be slightly miffed that Jackie had gone on vacation without pushing the work in progress to a branch. Let's hope she doesn't get burgled while she's on holiday.
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"Matt checked the Github to see if something went wrong with the automated build." - The Github? THE Github? Why? Did the Google order this? Are there dishwashers in the cloud? Can Scotty beam a fax machine to an island? And do people still answer work-related phone calls or check work email while on vacation? What a futuristic world...
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He was very lucky that she did not push her work. If she had, Matt should have built the stuff within 20 minutes and push to production. Unapproved and untested and unreviewed.
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Well, this was an anticlimactic ending. I was expecting Matt to pull off some miracle.
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It should at least have been pushed to a separate branch to make sure her work could not be lost.
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I was expecting him to get fired.
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I don't, because (a) anyone calling me for a work-related reason (except for if I'm late for a meeting and nobody knows where I am so my manager calls me to see if I'm OK) gets short shrift, whether I'm on vacation or not, and (b) my contract forbids me to connect to the company's servers while I'm on vacation.(1)
(1) The reasons for this are definitely unobvious, but related to me having signed an (optional(2)) avenant (modification to a contract or other similar document) that changes me from being paid for X hours per week to being paid for (exactly) Y days worked per calendar year. If I connect to the company's servers, I count for that day as being at work, so if I'm really on vacation or at least congés == time off, including ordinary weekends, there's a conflict, so I'm not allowed to do it.
(2) Really. When this change was proposed, because it involves a change in working patterns, the company cannot legally require existing employees in that kind of job (e.g. your correspondent) to accept it.
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Boy it'd be neat to live in a civilized country.
Admin
Yeah, I've been enjoying that for a while now.
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Ah, that sounds like la convention collective Syntec... I've enjoyed (seriously) thoroughly reading that when I was working in France and it helped me. I hope the word prud'hommes still carries the weight of respect with employers it had decades ago.
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I was, eventually, for answering back.
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I have a feeling the important changes may be just a typo fix.
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Yesterday one of my computer-illiterate colleagues asked why we use github to host our code and why we don’t have it on Sharepoint or OneDrive. 🙈
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The fact that he asked could be promising. Did he understand the answer? Did he (I dare hope) appreciate the answer?
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It is, indeed the convention collective Syntec.
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Doesn't sound too terrible, depending on how they took to the answer. It's not like Git is known to the average person, and without that info Github might just seem like another file hosting service. Now if it came from a computer-literate colleague, that would be terrifying
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Even in "less-civilized" countries, the enforced "no work on vacation" rule can help the company detect certain types of fraud which require daily maintenance.