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Ask HN: Who is working on a Saturday?

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As the title says. Who is working on a Saturday, what are you doing, where are you working, why?

39 comments

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pusewicz
In the office. Finishing stuff before a release. It's great!
seivan
At home. Just fixed some bugs for a clients release. About to start creating some workers piping words to different translation services. I just want to thank whoever made goslate.py.
tluyben2
Working on an app in the office. Nice and quiet.
joshuaellinger
Saturday? Today is Saturday?

That explains no one else is here...

Uperte
In the office. Procrastinating... Reading HN :)
sidmitra
Fixing a screwed production push on a friday! Working from home.
xilei
Having calls with partners from home... only time we can really catch up because of distance / operations during the week.
JOnAgain
I'm working. Email, design, and planning for upcoming sprint (software engineering). Why? Because I enjoy what I do an I have stuff to do. I work for Telenav in Culver City, we were ThinkNear until October. Nothing's really changed, just like a startup.
ianstallings
Waiting on a phone call from an executive to discuss some things. So technically, working at home. I'll code some later but that's just for myself. Because I need to work hard to keep up with my peers.
[dead] myspace
Who: millions of mexicans. Why: it's the usual thing, 9-7 mo-fri, sat 9-2.
clinth
Working intermittently (10%) from home. Checking in on a production system that's going to get its first big whack of data load later today.
jwoodbridge
Working from home on a drip email campaign for http://rafflecreator.com.
monkeyspaw
I'm interested in seeing some drip campaign examples. Just signed up for an account on raffle creator. Will this trigger your drip campaign to me?
jwoodbridge
It wont, because I'm not finished yet :) But I'll get it sending to you when I do.
monkeyspaw
I would appreciate it. My email is in my profile (I also signed up using that address).
ndcrandall
Working on implementing a new feature for my web app. I'm currently at the Hacker Dojo!
jamesjguthrie
I'm working a little today, finishing some contract work.
logn
I have a global team of remote people and we're all paid hourly. So, days of the week and times kind of lose meaning after a while. On the upside, I haven't set an alarm clock in a while.
pathy
Well, not strictly work but wrote on my thesis on the flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm. Was quite productive to my great surprise.

New knowledge is quite hard to generate in the enterprise system/ERP implementation space. So much have been written on it but it should work out.

cdvonstinkpot
Working at home, about to file about a month's worth of receipts into Quickbooks. I've been putting it off for weeks.
s0l1dsnak3123
I'm working at home. Got client deadlines to meet!
OWaz
I'm working in the office. Developing a web app and need to build some things with D3. In the office I have dual 30 inch monitors so it's much easier to work on them than at home. There's an overtime budget for the contract I'm working on, so it's not totally a major bummer to be putting in extra hours.
bigsassy
Up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, working on a side project and enjoying the weather :)
caw
I'll be futzing with a side project today--doing some coding.

In a couple of weeks I'll be working Friday-Sunday for the site shutdown for IT.

For a short bit the people outside of IT wanted to schedule it for July 4th holiday to take advantage of the 4 day weekend. For previous shutdowns, major holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving have also been suggested. It's never ended up happening, but it's really horrible when you can't make holiday plans for a couple of weeks while the timeline is still in flux, so if anyone here makes that decision for your team, remember your IT folks are people too. Even if you give alternate vacation days it's not really the same.