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July 22, 2005
Decypher Corporate Speak
I'm absolutely awful at corporate speak, I admit it. In fact, much of the email at work is sent around with TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) that I have taken to calling it encrypted email and just ignore it for the most part. There are no magic keys to de-cypher anything, so you're on your own for what each means. This is one of the primary reasons why I think corporate email has become completely useless. That mixed with the fact that I'm forwarded about 80 pieces a day that have no direct impact on my work (isn't that what weekly status meetings are for anyhow?).
On the other side of the fence are the corporate speak moments that make me go "huh?" and not in the good way. For example, in a job posting putting the terms "Senior Software Engineer" and "Visual Basic 6" in the same sentence seems contradictory to me. Andrei says "you lose -5 points in coolness" (which I think gains you 5 cool points if you deconstruct it logically). Eric gets the "chills just thinking about" those two terms merged, then proceeds to tell me about how amusing VB worms are.
Posted by Dan at July 22, 2005 12:49 PM