Professional Day

One of the nice remainders from former Soviet Union is the annual "Professional Day".

In the communist days there was a special day for each profession - the accountants, the policemen, the secret service, the railway worker, and so forth. On this day, all people belonging to this group of professionals were celebrated. That meant of course - they did not work, instead they received some presents from all those who want to make sure that the good relations are being preserved for another year.

November 16 is the day of the people working in telecommunications.
Nowadays this does not mean for all peope working at Ericsson, that we don't work. But some of our partners in Ukraine - the more administraive the more they remember - never forget to send cards with their appreciation and some of them also bring presents and use this day as a good reason to care about fostering the good relations.

So on November 16 Peter received a bunch of nice cards from various organizations, had interesting meetings with these business partners and felt that this is definitely one of the nice things when working here in Ukraine.

The unsolved question: Where is the calendar in which you can read about all those days?