The Week After Next

When will Jan be in the office?

  • 2 days from now

    Votes: 35 92.1%
  • 9 days from now

    Votes: 3 7.9%

  • Total voters
    38
  • Poll closed .

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Imagine the following scenario:


The offices are closed on Saturday and Sunday. It's Saturday. Your boss tells you, "Jan is in the office this coming week"


Does that mean she will be in the office starting on Monday (2 days ahead), or Monday on the following week (9 days ahead)?


Have you ever had someone say "the week after next" or something, and you have to ask them to clarify? You aren't sure if they are counting the current week?
 
If it's saturday, definitely 2 days from now.

"Next week" means the week after the current. Week after next is after that.
 
I don't know how else to interpret it except for the coming monday. Which is 2 days away.
 
I can understand either way, but I would just say "Jan will be in the office this week". I mean, the week is over. Well, the work week anyway.
 
I'd be like, whats the date?? Monday the 1st of Feb or Monday the 8th?? simple as that!
 
I can understand either way, but I would just say "Jan will be in the office this week". I mean, the week is over. Well, the work week anyway.

Well, that would be the wrong way to say it, but I think anybody would understand what they meant.
 
My lecturer actually went on a bit of a rant the other day about how he and his wife had two different understandings of the phrase "next Monday" due to her being American. For clarity's sake I almost never use "next Monday." Instead I use "this coming Monday" and "Monday week."
 
Sunday is the beginning of the week.
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Saturday is the end of the week.
If, on saturday, you say 'next week', you mean this next week which starts on sunday.

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So here is the story. It's not exciting or particularly interesting:

This happened last week.

I think I got the email on Saturday, but didn't read it until Monday. So you can see where the misunderstanding came from. "This coming week" was actually already in progress.

If I would have checked my email on Saturday or Sunday...

If I would have checked the email date, everything would be cool, but I didn't. So I thought she was out of the office and I didn't put in my invoice; now I don't get paid until she is back in the office in two weeks.

I had written a response about being disappointed that I would have to wait a week until getting paid (because I thought he was saying I couldn't invoice until next week), but I didn't send it; I didn't want to bother him with my pointless emotions; that wouldn't change anything, but simply waste his time and bother him.

But if I had sent that email - it was really just "oh, that sucks", he would have corrected my date mix-up.

So, all in all, I learned a lot of damn things.

Sunday is the beginning of the week.
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Saturday is the end of the week.
If, on saturday, you say 'next week', you mean this next week which starts on sunday.

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That's true. I remember learning that back in elementary school. I had completely forgotten.
 
Sunday is the beginning of the week.
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Saturday is the end of the week.
If, on saturday, you say 'next week', you mean this next week which starts on sunday.

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That's true. I remember learning that back in elementary school. I had completely forgotten.

Actually this concept of the beginning of the week varies from country to country. We for example consider monday the beginning of the week and sunday the end.
 
My mother's work considers Monday the beginning of the week. However, calenders are constructed as such.

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Is one month, take a few days at the end and add it to the next month.

It's certainly open to interpretation based on culture, sure, but his problem was clearly outlined and could work for both. Sunday would be the coming week for those of us who follow that, or monday could. both are the next week.
 
Actually this concept of the beginning of the week varies from country to country. We for example consider monday the beginning of the week and sunday the end.

In this case though, it doesn't really matter. Saturday is either one day away from the end of the week, or two.
 
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