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This is fun. Seems like you got several comments here trying to "improve" it's "usefulness". I like it as is, a piece of art on how corporate speak is unrealistically obtuse.
Definitely obtuse. Why unrealistic though?
> ... 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).
They would have had to add a leap week every five or six years to keep that in sync with the normal calendar - did they do that, or did they just let the calendar drift?
I believe that it had a slightly floating start date.
NetApp fiscal quarters are:
Quarter Three: October 28, 2024 through January 24, 2025
Quarter Four: January 28, 2025 through April 25, 2025
Quarter One: April 28, 2025 through July 25, 2025
Quarter Two: July 27, 2024 through October 23, 2025
Quarter Three: October 29, 2018 through January 27, 2019
Quarter Four: January 28, 2019 through April 26, 2019
Quarter One: April 30, 2018 through July 27, 2018
Quarter Two: July 30, 2018 through October 26, 2018
2019-20: https://web.archive.org/web/20200430103748/http://investors....
2021-22: https://web.archive.org/web/20210802092405/https://investors...
2022-23: https://web.archive.org/web/20221001020458/https://investors...
2023-24: https://web.archive.org/web/20230607023812/https://investors...
It appears that it floats a little bit.
I remember the 4-4-5 from back then (started in '98, was laid off in '09) because we had the old style BIG releases where it was a weekend of things changing (and that was ok). The last weekend of the first month was infrastructure major changes, the last weekend of the second month was software major changes, and the last two weeks of the third month were hard frozen for accounting to not have changes.
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They would have had to add a leap week every five or six years to keep that in sync with the normal calendar - did they do that, or did they just let the calendar drift?
It's been... almost 20 years since I looked at that. I believe that it had a slightly floating start date. NetApp fiscal quarters are: Quarter Three: October 28, 2024 through January 24, 2025 Quarter Four: January 28, 2025 through April 25, 2025 Quarter One: April 28, 2025 through July 25, 2025 Quarter Two: July 27, 2024 through October 23, 2025 And from Wayback (adjusted to fit same ordering) Quarter Three: October…
Apparently financial analysts are (or were) surprised when that extra week leads to corresponding changes for other metrics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01654...
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My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors. Thank you.
Hello!? No response yet is this project dead or something it has been 30 minutes since the last question. This is very important to a major customer project of ours please get on this.
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And how much time spent figuring out where to go to lunch.
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I would like to integrate with 30 bespoke SSO providers; is that something that I could be charged $100/user/month for after spending 8 hours of my time in some Zoom calls with people that aren't sure?
Plus the support contract and the 200% administrative fee.
I prefer the Swedish site vecka.nu (meaning week.now)
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Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?