Comment by aziaziazi
1 year ago
Congrats ! However I feel the claim is lying to me and inconsistant:
« In […], there are 11 public holidays in 2024.
Let's stretch your time off from 25 days to 61 days »
61 actually adds up my time off (25) with adjacent week ends and public holidays (27). The 9 missing are week ends already next to public holliday but without any proposed time off extension. If you’re gonna count the WE next to PU it would be fair to include them in the initial count.
The inconsistency is that I didn’t count one Saturday next to a public Holliday in Sunday, while the +9 I’m referring above are Friday/Monday next to week ends.
I know this does not make your product less useful, but in a psychological perspective it toggle my defence mode instantly [0] in the same way an over promising advertisement as the opposite effect than expected.
0: discussion ongoing here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113449
This reminds how my dad explained me when I was a kid that I actually never go to school (despite evidence for the opposite :))
He would count the days of, than all the weekend, then all the hours I am an home across the year (so double counting what he subtracted before) etc, ending with zero days left for school.
This was driving me mad when I was walking to school :)
I didn't like this either, seems kind of slimy.