The ability to load up an on call schedule would be handy.
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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#142Nice site, but my time off planning start in October to September of the next year. I wish I could specify that. Keep up with the nice work!
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that doesn't work in a lot of countries. I can be assertive all I want, but if I pull my child out of school without permission, I risk getting a call from the local child protection services and/or getting fined.
_Whose_ permission is needed? You're their parent , that's all the "permissions" needed.
In the Netherlands (and other countries), you have something called "leerplicht" or obligatory education law, and have to ask the school for permission.
The school is allowed to make an exemption for a maximum of 10 days, above that you need to contact the school attendance officer. This can only be provided if the reason falls under some specific types.
If you want to take your children on a holiday outside the national holidays, you have to provide proof that this only a possibility during term time.
You can read more about this at https://www.government.nl/topics/compulsory-school-attendanc...
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#144With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like.
Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong etc
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that doesn't work in a lot of countries. I can be assertive all I want, but if I pull my child out of school without permission, I risk getting a call from the local child protection services and/or getting fined.
_Whose_ permission is needed? You're their parent , that's all the "permissions" needed.
School isn't optional in a lot of European countries. Parents don't get to decide that their kids don't need to attend.
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#146With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like. Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong…
I think it’d be really hard not to psychologically anchor.
My experience with agile is either: * you get stressed out being measured at such a low resolution and sandbag or * you wind up in a low accountability context because even management knows how messed up scrum is for their use case.
I wish we had something better.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending on your role and environment, certain days are also have more value in my eyes than others. For example, people tend not to push heavy stressful and potentially disaster risk processes on Fridays. They either do these on weird off hours for their target user base at large scales or Mondays in general. Fridays where I’m at tend to be “easier” days people intentionally try to make so for a gentle transition i…
This is key - taking the week between Christmas and New Year's often maximizes PTO days, but everyone does that so that week is quiet, simple, and you can put your head down and get some real work done.
I wish I could do that but I have little kids. But we have generous PTO that expires at the end of the year, so everyone takes off lots of time in December... even by December 1 things are getting quiet.
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#148Nice idea, but it seems that for some countries the longest possible time off has a big overlap with school holidays, which makes sense. However travelling during school breaks is more expensive, it would be nice to find a way to optimize time off while trying to avoid school holidays.
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#149On a related note, I sometimes take
days off to get work done.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't understand - why wouldn't you do that?
Parent (heh) means they have no choice but to plan their holidays during the days off in the school roster. Tools like these are pretty much pointless if you can take a day off from work, but your kid is required to show up in school.
> if you can take a day off from work, but your kid is required to show up in school.
Sounds like a real day off, though. ;)