"Can we finish this up?"

Recent days has been a flurry of activity in head office, especially when concerning Japan. Most of us in the Japan team has been taken completely by surprise in this sudden interest in Japan and what we are doing here. The whole organization has been quite surprised until I figured out the real reason...

Basically all of Europe is going on the Christmas vacation from the end of the week... Us poor sods in Japan are still working and will keep working next week as well, so we thought that some relatively "urgent" things would wait for a few days, but this was not to be...Unfortunately there's not much point or punchline to this point more than to consider that not all countries or regions are working on the same clock...

Here in Japan, next week is just a regular week for us to slave away before the very very important new year's holiday!