[agwa]

It's not just the employees - if you provide a service that your customers depend on to provide their service, they're not going to appreciate the hassle on a holiday especially when it's not at all their fault. This isn't true so much for GitHub, but is for infrastructure providers like AWS.

[taf2]

Tell that to rackspace not sure how many where effected on Christmas Day they decided to update a router - causing a 3-1/2 hr outage from 8:30 est to 11:00est aprox, took out part of my infrastructure - made for a nice Christmas morning surprise. Effected the ORD datacenter- only thing I could on RS status is https://status.rackspace.com/index/viewincidents?group=2&.... And of course the ticket in my account