[chrisseaton]

> Why are they relying on someone that is on vacation in the first place?

Sometimes there are only so many people who can solve a problem and society can't afford to have an excess number of them sitting around doing nothing in case there is an emergency.

> Are firemen supposed to not go on holiday ever during their work life?

Firemen, police, politicians, military, are all subject to getting recalled from leave if there is an emergency and they are needed to prevent life being lost. Nobody ever said they can't ever go on leave.

> That's simply the symptom of very bad management

No it's reality!

Look at how many people criticise presidents who are 'golfing' when there is a crisis and life is being lost.

Some people just need to be able to respond no matter what.

[notreallytrue]

> Sometimes there are only so many people who can solve a problem

That's a very small subset of the entire workforce.

Maybe one in a million or less

> No it's reality!

It's not.

> Look at how many people criticise presidents who are 'golfing' when there is a crisis and life is being lost.

They are right.

The president is not a salaried worker, it's the president.

[chrisseaton]

> The president is not a salaried worker, it's the president.

He works. He draws a salary. What do you think the difference is?

Why can't the Vice President delegate out of hours? Because that's not realistic? Well there you go... sometimes it's not realistic.

[notreallytrue]

> He works. He draws a salary. What do you think the difference is?

Well... Let's say that if I have to explain it too you, we have bigger issues to solve first.

> Why can't the Vice President delegate out of hour

Because that's not how it works

By the law

[chrisseaton]

That's not how it works.. and that's the law... because it's not reasonable for some people to not respond out of hours.

Applies for ordinary people as well - such as soldiers and police who are liable for recall at any time.

[notreallytrue]

> soldiers

In my country they have 28 days of paid holidays every year

Ant it's still one of the few jobs left where they can retire after 15 years, 6 months, one day of work

> Police

In my country they have 28 days of paid holidays, 35 hours a week contract

In my country there are 1/10 of the homicides per 100 thousands people of the US

[chrisseaton]

And (I presume, don't know what country you're in) they're both legally liable to be recalled from leave? That was my point - not what their retirement ages is.