@baralheia Man... making that retroactive would be one way to suddenly force most people off the net. What a wild scenario that'd be.

And as if the ram isn't driving up the prices enough, eh?

@swiftfoxfire Hehah... I am too old to worry about all that extra pro bono work. I've been 8 and done for probably 10 years. I'm obviously on call 24/7, but that goes with the gig.

But yeah, enjoy your time off, take your lunch, use your vacation w/o guilt. They need to know when they need to hire someone else.

Maybe there's somewhere else that you can laterally pivot to within the general environment.

@swiftfoxfire That's 100% been my job for decades. Living in the crucible can be like being at a big rave and you attack it as you can enjoying what you can, but there are plenty who have comfortable pigeonholed gigs where they have 40% work and 60% R&D and training (Or vice versa).
That's never been my path, but I fully get how some thrive there.

Good luck with it all, just know where you fail is simply a reflection on how well the higher ups staff. Not your fault, it's a reflection on them.