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Re: 365x24x7

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Thu Apr 21 21:39:03 2011

In-Reply-To: <4DB0D3B7.3080900@mompl.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:38:11 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
> Bill Stewart wrote:
>>
>> Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to
>> do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span.
>
> I Fully agree.
>
> I think it may pay off to search for people who suffer "Delayed sleep phase
> syndrome" to do night shift. They'll be happy and you'll actually have
> someone who is more awake and alert than the average person at that time of
> day.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
>
> I think the IT world has a more than average incidence of people with this
> particular syndrome, at least in my experience.
>
> Of course in practice you would want to word your vacancy in such a way it
> doesn't sound silly. But I think it could be worth it to put an emphasis on
> it.
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>
> --
> http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
>
>

I'd just go with "people who really enjoy energy drinks."

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