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virang_21 wrote: Should I reply or not ?
It depends. If you're satisified with being thought of as someone who follows the company's rules, don't do anything. However, if you want to be known as someone who also does the right thing, respond to the email. Be the person you'd like to be known as.
/ravi
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So, the "right thing" is doing work whilst you're not paid for it? Yes, would make your boss happy. Would make me happy if you did it here too. You could do that all day, every day.
The right thing is to not break the rule and bring it up in the next meeting. If it is a problem that the employee is not reachable, then there can be a discussion on the extra cost of having an employee on stand by.
The attitude to "do what is right" is the reason lots of customers expect that we work for free. 
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You get my vote.
If it were normal leave - I could see helping put out a fire.
But this was forced - and the powers that be should see that it's not only the employees who are paying the price for their decision.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: However, if you want to be known as someone who also does the right thing, respond to the email.
A right + a wrong does not make a right. 
Marc
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: if you want to be known as someone who also does the right thing, respond to the email. Be the person you'd like to be known as.
Just don't expect to be rewarded for it 
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Unless I reallly disliked this team member, I would help her out. That, in my mind, is being a team player.
Unless, of course, it would eat up a significant part of my day off. Then I would probably help out and ask for a different day off to make up for it.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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theoldfool wrote: Unless I reallly disliked this team member, I would help her out. That, in my mind, is being a team player.
Actually, I think you'll find that being a team player means putting aside your personal feelings for the sake of the team.
You might want to work on that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I said that was "being" a team player. Never said I was one.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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I'm a team player until someone touches my code.
Teamwork can only go so far...
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Amen. As one of my colleagues used to say, <thick Russian accent>"you touch the code, you lose support!"</thick Russian accent>
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: <thick Russian accent>"you touch the code, you lose support!"</thick Russian accent>
Or perhaps I'd bring it up in a 2x4 meeting, with "you Lose support!"
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If I receive a direct email from anyone at work with a work related question, I will reply whether it is my day off or not. But that's me.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Showing good will is important, if you like your team and your work ... If your working environment is very formal, I would also be formal. In my case, it would be "Hey, I cannot spend half a day on it right now but I think this or that ..."
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Depends on your contract, company policy or culture.
But personally, I seldom answer mails when I'm off duty, if it's important they'll call you.
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THis was very common in the past when big factories would close for two weeks in August. Its still common enough today, many firms use this periods to do maintenance on the factory, so really, you have to accept it.
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virang_21 wrote: I am thinking I should reply
Indeed. This should have been set up as an automatic responder.
Given my cynical nature, while many have replied "do what's right", I make the following cynical observations:
- No one will ultimately care or notice. Certainly not management.
- If management does notice, they'll just laugh and feel good about getting some free work out of you.
- If management b*tches to you that you didn't reply to him, the response "but you forced us to take a leave day" will not be a justifiable argument back to them.
- Management remembers the negatives, not the positives.
Basically, you're being asked to do something "against the rule," and that doesn't feel right, at least not without some explicit exception to the rule with appropriate compensation that management did not define. This leaves you in a position of having to make an ethical decision in the face of management's unethical decision. Which is why these rules are so stupid to begin with.
At the end of the day, the only way to escape this insanity is to take the approach that, by answering your team member's email, you're doing something to make his life a wee bit better at work. It's important to remember that we're dealing with other human beings, often in the face of absurd management (and/or government) policies that so often forgets that.
So, my advice, answer his email, not because it's right but because it feeds the narcissist in each of us to feel good about something we did, and it's a middle-finger to management by breaking the rules. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Your first mistake was checking your work email on a day off. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Your company wants you to take the day off and relax. If answering emails from work isn't consistent with that for you, and being on call that way isn't part of your job description, then don't reply. There's nothing wrong with you being unreachable via work email on your day off.. and it's only one day.
I think it's great that your employer is trying to help their workers see that they're addicted to work. It's not healthy. Anyone who can't let go of work for even one day, is probably addicted.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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You can see it live nowadays at Livemap24[^]
Quite some good programming happening there.
It doesn't work everywhere though. The network where you live needs to have a public API.
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Very nice, although I admit I had to Google 'Funicular' - kinda bummed out that it's not that funny
I checked my old hometown back in Denmark and noticed some of the busses were driving through buildings on the map and even driving on the railroad tracks, but that could be a matter of calibration when you zoom in.
I cannot seem to find any aircrafts.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I checked my old hometown back in Denmark and noticed some of the busses were driving through buildings on the map and even driving on the railroad tracks, but that could be a matter of calibration when you zoom in.
Happens in CH as well..
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It's actually rather a cute idea.
It's just a shame that it's absolutely useless -- I struggled to find a bus on the map, and finally found a 426 (I've no idea where it goes, but it was there), so I searched on 426, and was presented with a map of Taiwan.
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Very cool! 
/ravi
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