[Linux-aus] linux.conf.au in January

[Mary Gardiner]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Another flipside to this is that in IT roles, because there is a high
> demand for leave it is often quite difficult to get leave at this time
> (January). That may be my particular IT support / sysadmin experience
> but there was a squable over leave and coverage every December and
> January.  How much that affects LCA attendence is anyone's guess :)

Yeah, my development experience is that it's quite easy to get leave:
the clients are all on leave so there's little demand for new projects.
Same thing in a lot of desk jobs.

But anyone in shift work or retail has exactly your problem.

-Mary