What were you doing on New Year's Eve 10 years ago?

Good question Gina!

Ten years ago I was working on the Service Desk (first level internal support hotline) for the same company I work for today. As part of the team leadership I volunteered for the 16:00 to 02:00 shift covering the phones over the Y2K rollover. I got a total of two calls the entire shift, and one of them was from one of my coworkers just after midnight wondering if anything had happened. It was a very long, very boring shift (I was alone after 19:00). We had lots of people on site for support in case anything went wrong, but I was "tied" to the phones in case anyone did call in so I didn't get to socialize.

On the bright side, nothing happened and I got double time and a half for working the shift. And I was single at the time anyway, so it wasn't like I was missing out on much :-)

I can't wait to hear what other people were doing... Anyone hide out in a reinforced bomb shelter or anything? *lol*

Hi Gina, I was on call for an IT company, I was equipped with two mobile telephones - one from each of the then telco's in case either was shut down by Y2k, and a pager. At 00:15 I received a call from my manager to see if I had any calls - none. 2 hours later I received another call from him by mistake, another engineer hadn't phoned back and he had redialled my number. The only call I recieved was from a customer who had a desktop running Win95 that had never been patched and was running UPS monitoring software that had failed - UPS was still going though!