Happy Birthday, Kristin and Maria!
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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§ ita § - Feb 12, 2007 6:09:00 am PST #250 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
shrift - Feb 12, 2007 6:11:39 am PST #251 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Happy birthday, Kristin and Maria!
In other news, totally dying of boredom cancer today.
Pix - Feb 12, 2007 6:17:43 am PST #252 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Shrift, I think that cancer may be contagious. Better watch it.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2007 6:19:10 am PST #253 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nomenclature question:
Say I fill out a form on a web site and it tells me I'll get a reply in 48 hours. They don't mean 48 hours, they really mean two business days. So if I fill it out on Friday, I shouldn't get antsy until Tuesday sometime.
The term business day serves to differentiate from a calendar day. There's no such modifier to hours to parallel this in the example above, is there?
Topic!Cindy - Feb 12, 2007 6:23:51 am PST #254 of 10001
What is even happening?
What?
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2007 6:24:51 am PST #255 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So if I fill it out on Friday, I shouldn't get antsy until Tuesday sometime.
I would assume if you fill it out Friday at noon, you should get a response by Tuesday noon. So it's like "business days" but with more precision. Or you could think of it as literally 48 hours, except "we're not gonna count Sat. and Sun."
There's no such modifier to hours to parallel this in the example above, is there?
"48 business hours" sounds weird. Like maybe you're counting 8 hours in a business day, so a little more than a week in total. Of course that would be a wrong interpretation so... what is my point again?
Ailleann - Feb 12, 2007 6:25:11 am PST #256 of 10001
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ita, I've very occasionally seen the term "48 business hours," but frankly I find it a little silly. Unless you're working in a business where the work in question is going on 24/7, they should use the term "business day."
amych - Feb 12, 2007 6:26:08 am PST #257 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've seen "business hours" used, where "4 business hours" really means "half a business day", or more precisely, "if you contact us right before we close, we will not be getting back to you until after we reopen in the morning". But it's an ugly bit of language, prone to misunderstandings (is 48 hours 2 days, or 6 business days?), and anyway, some fraction of a business day always seems to be what's really meant.
Nutty - Feb 12, 2007 6:27:40 am PST #258 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The term business day serves to differentiate from a calendar day. There's no such modifier to hours to parallel this in the example above, is there?
Well, we do differentiate "close of business" from "the end of the day". (Anyway, I do, COB being 5pm in whatever time zone you're in, and "the end of the day" being whenever you actually go home. I have had coworkers be completely lost when I refer to something needing to go out by COB.)
But usually, when we are talking about hours within a business day, we say "two business days" versus "two full business days," I think. The former might be 44 hours, or 42; but the latter will be 48 or more.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2007 6:27:43 am PST #259 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Unless you're working in a business where the work in question is going on 24/7, they should use the term "business day."
I agree - except what if someone fills out the form 8:00 am Friday, and then calls back Tue. afternoon and they say, "It's still two business days - you'll hear from us at 5:00."
I just think there's some ambiguity or "slop" in the "business day" term.