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We're talking about real seasonality, not "we have to launch this quarter" fake board room seasonality. If you want to do people's taxes for a living you have
by pc86 2y ago
We're talking about real seasonality, not "we have to launch this quarter" fake board room seasonality.
If you want to do people's taxes for a living you have to acknowledge that Feb/March/April are not times where it is appropriate or acceptable for you to schedule a 3-week vacation. This is not the same as "we do database updates in August so no summer holidays."
- randomdata 2y agoI thought we were talking about real seasonality? A tax deadline arbitrarily chosen in the legislative chamber is as much fake seasonality as summer database updates or product launches.
- OJFord 2y agoIf that database update is well know to be every August or that product launch is something like Apple's WWDC then sure, that's the distinction people are making. If it's just we want to launch our latest product in the second week of June, because that's the one-off date we came up with when we started the project, that's different. It's not seasonality it's just failing to account for staff availablity/unrealistic planning.
- peaseagee 2y agoIf you miss your database update or product launch deadline you can't get arrested for it (in the vast majority of cases). Yes, all deadlines are arbitrary, but the consequences for missing them are different for different deadlines!
- randomdata 2y agoBeing arrested is still just the arbitrary choice of people. It's not real in the sense defined earlier. It is not like, say, needing to harvest food before winter sets in.
- barkbyte 2y agoStop being deliberately stupid
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- burnished 2y agoHow is one of those more real? They are both actions that people undertake to accomplish an objective, but there is nothing tangible or factual about either, which appears to be your working definition.
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- randomdata 2y agoWhat makes you think any are more real than any other? If you had taken the time to read the thread you would have learned that the whole idea of a fake deadline is nonsensical.
- CRConrad 2y agoNo, only your idea of it is.
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- randomdata 2y agoHuh? I have no idea. If I had an idea, why would I spend my time on a message forum with it? You have clearly not thought this through.
- CRConrad 2y ago
- CRConrad 2y ago"I thought we were talking about real seasonality? A climate deadline arbitrarily chosen by the Sun and Earth's orbit around it is as much fake seasonality as any whim by a corporate executive." Yeah, that's idiotic. But only about as much as your version.