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steadycourse commented on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate corporate.watch... · Posted by u/steadycourse

BrandoElFollito · 6 months ago

I cannot read these fucking comments, they create some kind of anxiety about the fact that I thought to be the only one having to listen to this crap at work and now I see that the world is simply doomed.

steadycourse · 6 months ago

Hey, it's not doomed. I created objectivetrackr.com (the link at the bottom) because I think we can fix corporate planning comedy!

steadycourse commented on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate corporate.watch... · Posted by u/steadycourse

shagie · 6 months ago

> ... 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).

steadycourse · 6 months ago

All I see is quarter != quarter. How has it come to this!?

steadycourse commented on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate corporate.watch... · Posted by u/steadycourse

plumbees · 6 months ago

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.

steadycourse · 6 months ago

Thanks! It's only after this comment that I realised just how close corporate planning is to a parody of itself :)

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loloquwowndueo · 6 months ago

Nothing more corporate / enterprise than deciding the year starts at any point other than January 1st :) (yeah I know all about the fiscal year, which I also find hilarious)

steadycourse · 6 months ago

I'll be honest I wasn't expecting just how many people have slightly different start / end dates!

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lokimedes · 6 months ago

Our corpo year starts May 1.

Please add an offset functionality to your free solution immediately, as it has now become a core component of our operation, or we will be forced to take legal action.

Also, we appreciate if you could sign a retroactive NDA with our legal team ASAP.

steadycourse · 6 months ago

this thread both made me laugh and gave me heart palpitations, thanks everyone!

steadycourse commented on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate corporate.watch... · Posted by u/steadycourse

cperciva · 6 months ago

Ok, I know this is a joke, but... in all seriousness, I recently moved FreeBSD releases to a quarterly calendar. The first month of the quarter, people are encouraged to finish up their works in progress and get them into the tree; the second month, we have BETA/RC builds every week; and in the third month (usually at the start but not always) I do the final RELEASE build.

This wasn't for any corporatey reason though; it just happened that "every 3 months" is a natural cadence for doing releases. (In a sense it's a 6-month cadence, like e.g. Ubuntu, but we support two major versions at any given time, and their schedules interleave.)

Sometimes a calendar quarter is just a calendar quarter.

steadycourse · 6 months ago

hey, author here - I want to get on record that I don't think this is silly at all. I think there is something truthful and useful in dividing and conquering time, it's just that generally the bar is so low right now and we should do better!

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codingdave · 6 months ago

Are you aware that not all corporations follow the calendar year?

steadycourse · 6 months ago

Of course - no doubt there are many schemes! I have found this to be by far the most common

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