Christmas and New Year coincides with IBM's Q4, so if you're in the sales organisation time off is a no-no. One could consider that a bit of a bummer.
But I look at it this way... a couple of years ago, just before Christmas, a colleague's daughter died of a brain tumour. Anything else pales into insignificance. The weather, traffic, having to work right up to close of play on Christmas Eve, all that stuff... if you have your health (and can ignore non-fatal stuff) and your family, and all is well with them, we are indeed lucky.
By the way, that plumber must have been blessed with some season-of-goodwill feelings. Either that or he has some dementia problem making him believe 1960s plumbing prices are still in force.
Christmas and New Year coincides with IBM's Q4, so if you're in the sales organisation time off is a no-no. One could consider that a bit of a bummer.
But I look at it this way... a couple of years ago, just before Christmas, a colleague's daughter died of a brain tumour. Anything else pales into insignificance. The weather, traffic, having to work right up to close of play on Christmas Eve, all that stuff... if you have your health (and can ignore non-fatal stuff) and your family, and all is well with them, we are indeed lucky.
By the way, that plumber must have been blessed with some season-of-goodwill feelings. Either that or he has some dementia problem making him believe 1960s plumbing prices are still in force.