Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by JCharante on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:16PM
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Since people don't like the man part of human, what if we started saying hu-years? Hu is still only one syllable.
Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by yazaddaruvala on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:17PM
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sde-year, dev-year, engineer-year, resource-year, employee-year, are all variants I've heard before.
I can understand not wanting to miss-quote something, but otherwise seems simple enough to use different language.
Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by Rebelgecko on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:06PM
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While those variants solve some complaints, they're a lot more specific and may change the meaning of some statements. For example, many of those terms exclude work that isn't done by "engineers". Using a term like "employee-hours" might make contractors on your team feel less valued.
Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by Drakar1903 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:07AM
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Call them contributor-hours, this way only the people that slack off can be offended.
Also, "person-year" is vague as "persons" includes non-humans entities such as corporations and partnerships. "Man-year" refers only to work by biological humans. "People-years" might be better but that is plural. Had I been the first I might have used person-years, but when someone else sets a precedent that avoids confusion I'm happy to stick with it despite potential microaggressions.