When the company puts a 2 week freeze on all prod updates for the holidays , but still makes you show up for work (with nothing to do). 😭

I don't fully get it, there still could be a staging environment where you can get your tasks done.

And code freeze isn't a real thing. If a bug is found on prod that's a threat to the business, your boss will order you to deploy right away.

@SidTheITGuy I mean, fair. I’m probably just being a salty crybaby who dreams of having a real Christmas break. BUT, the dev work is done and most PRs are approved, though. We’re towards the end of Sprint and the freeze was sprung on us at random. I work for a huge publicly traded company that also requires CABs for literally EVERYTHING, so nothing my front-end team works on will be allowed to go live. They’re pretty serious about this freeze. 🧊

@GirlCode I'd say chill out and work on your personal projects or whatever.

Do you have an office job, hybrid or WFH?

Same. Global change freeze for the entire company.

Luckily I'm remote so I'm just getting some last minute Christmas shit done.

@SidTheITGuy it is a thing. And i'm part of the project, where the PO cannot do anything about it.

that's why i work during christmas. why would i take the chilliest week of the year off lol

Not once in my life have i experienced actual idle time in a software development job. Software is never done. There is always a lot to do and improve.

A deployment freeze doesn't mean that development stops. It just means that the well-tested and reviewed commits have to wait until after the freeze before actually being deployed on production.