Keep Track of Your Tenure
I started a new job at Ramp this week, and I quickly found out that they value the number of days since the inception of the company. What started as bit of copy/paste in a slide deck, became a core part of the company culture. Wanting to join the fun, I wrote a simple shell script to keep track of how long I’ve been at Ramp.
/usr/local/bin/days
#!/usr/bin/env bash
company="Ramp"
start="2024-07-22"
company_start="2019-03-18"
diff() {
today=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
today_seconds=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d" "$today" "+%s")
start_seconds=$(date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d" "$1" "+%s")
# Calculate the number of days
diff=$(((today_seconds - start_seconds) / 86400))
echo $((diff))
}
echo "Today is day $(($(diff $start) + 1)) at $company (day $(diff $company_start))"
With this in place, I just run days
in my terminal and viola!
Today is day 2 at Ramp (day 1954)