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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: bringing family to Usenix
- Message-ID: <BzB8o6.K4p@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:02:29 GMT
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- grob@chorus.fr (Lori S. Grob) writes:
- }john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- }>tommy@boole.att.com writes:
- }>}henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
- }>}$tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold) wrote:
- }>}$->I'll be at the January Usenix in San Diego. Since my company pays my
- }>}$->airfare, I figure I'll take my family. It's a good time for a vacation
- }>}$->and I've never seen San Diego. How do people manage this?
-
- }>}$ you don't. a conference is not vacation (unless you are defrauding
- }>}$ your company); it is work.
-
- }So while it is clear that for you, the conference ends at 5pm, I
- }think that you are being a little quick to assume that this is the
- }case for everyone.
-
- Oh, this is just rich. *I'm* being a little quick to assume???
- I'm not the one painting everyone who doesn't attend every second
- of every event with the broad brush of ``defrauding your company''.
-
- }The best solution to this is to take your vacation just before
- }or just after the conference. This way you still get your planefare
- }paid but you are sure of being able to enjoy yourself with
- }your spouse and children.
-
- In my opinion, take your vacation whenever you think it will work
- for you. In my opinion, you will have free time. At the worst
- your family will have to entertain themselves Wed, Wed eve (if
- you choose to BOF), Thurs, Friday (morn). Thursday night is the
- reception (I got a ticket for my wife through the generousity
- of someone not going), but with small kids that would not work well,
- so you could skip that (yea, yea, yea, I know, smoozing is expected
- of some attendees -- well, in my opinion there was little mingling;
- you had a clump of DECies, a clump of IBMers, a clump of Convexites,
- a clump of the Usenix cognoscenti, ... etc.)
- Friday afternoon seemed really sparse, I think lots of people snuck
- home early -- and I don't know if it's because the Friday afternoon
- talks were less generally applicable or vice-versa.
-
- Well, that's my two cents (or so) worth. Obviously opinions vary wildly
- here -- find out what your employer expects and do what you think will
- work for you.
-
- John
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