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by shelled 238 days ago
It was Diwali vacation in India. It looks like the managers were not able to force everyone to walk around with their laptops and pagers hanging from their necks and waists, respectively, which they normally do.

If there's one thing I have learned from my Amazon mates, then that is they never have a true time off. Hills, beaches, a marriage in the family— no exceptions. It's so pervasive that I can't really imagine it to be voluntary, and my friends' answers on this topic have never been clear.

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Still, by the time the failure start, that would have been the beginning of the day in Europe, so I suppose those teams got the page

Maybe it was still at the end of Indian day but together with the holiday I'd say that makes it more unlikely to be handled there