"A reader we'll Regomize as "Barb" who showed up for Y2K duty carrying a bottle of champagne, which rather upset her boss who had laid in sparkling grape juice to keep the on call crew sober. Barb was having none of it and fair enough, because she married just 12 days before Y2K eve and postponed her honeymoon to work that night."
""This event comes once a century and this special one, once in a millennium, so I'm having a real toast," she told the boss, and then made a concession by promising to share the bubbles with the entire team, in very small doses that would not impact anybody's work. Midnight passed, nothing broke, and the team began to relax. And then the phone rang, panicking the team."
""I had one can of beer and a whisky chaser, to 'see in' the new Millenium, and went to bed. It was the most tame and uneventful New Years Eve I had ever spent." "Mark" told us he spent Y2K eve in New Zealand, and was supposed to inform his boss in Australia - where the time was two hours in the past - of any problems. Mark called and found his boss on a boat, under the weather, and incapable of action!"
Several tech support staff spent December 31, 1999 on call to monitor potential Y2K failures. One on-call technician, Regomized as "Barb", brought champagne despite a boss provisioning sparkling grape juice, having postponed her honeymoon twelve days earlier. She shared tiny amounts with the team, and midnight passed without incidents until a client phoned seeking confirmation of problems. Barb eventually took her delayed honeymoon seventeen years later. Other technicians reported subdued celebrations: one drank a beer and went to bed early, another monitored a boss who was seasick on a boat and unable to act.
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