Love this.
It could look more awful-corporate though.
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
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#22I lose a little more will to live each time someone smugly reminds us that the fiscal year actually started in February or whatever the fuck. God dammit can we just have one CALENDAR. It’s okay I know you need to close the finances or whatever, but why can’t that just end in January and start again in February, instead of creating this dumb second year for ourselves.
You know what it is? A leaky abstraction. Implementation details of finance leaking into something as fundamentally basic as the calendar for the entire rest of the company. NO!!!
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
A quick Google shows 65% of public companies use calendar year as their FY. At our startup, it's even more complicated :) we use calendar year for official financial / business metrics, while our planning quarter is offset by 1 month (Q1 = Feb/Mar/Apr).
Same.. This is my personal hell
At least you're using the actual months. I've recently had to deal with 4-5-4 Retail Calendars. Explaining to my coworkers why the data for September includes dates from both August and October, and that's Working As Intended.
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#24Not really relevant but somehow this reminded me of https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
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#25> ... each quarter is ~13 weeks ...
When I worked at Network Appliance (Q1 earnings call is August 27th), they used a strict 4-4-5 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4–4–5_calendar
This meant that it wasn't "about" 13 weeks for each quarter, the quarter was defined as 13 weeks (91 days).
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#26Rating this website, it’s perfect. I give it a perfect 5/7
Which is exactly the number of days a week you plebs will work, and that is final.
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#27I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon).
Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?
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#28Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?
I've always been curious about folks who use this phrasing and tone. "Are you aware" always seems condescending to me. It's a weird assumption to make that because someone made a choice, that they weren't aware that there were other choices. It's like walking up to someone who drives a Honda and saying "are you aware you could have bought a Ford?" Please help me, us there another interpretation of this kind of phrasi…
I hate the "not all" argument. It falsely accuses us of making a claim that all X has property Y. It falsely implies that we cannot comment about a feature unless we expand the comment to the universe of other features. The "didn't you know" barb ties in here, as it presupposed that we somehow agreed to this "must include all" rule and broke it.
Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
#29I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon). Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?
I would understand someone asking if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, but I honest to God did not know some people start their week on Saturday.
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#30The ui is not lotus notes[1] enough. Still great.
[1]: or jira, sharepoint, salesforce, google docs, etc