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I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)
idempotent -> side-effect-free? safely-repeatable?
> counterintuitive
> Based on facts or evidence, rather than on magic-gut divination.
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Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive.
Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive. No, it's because I have a degree is Communication, and understand the importance of language in the workplace. Any "insecurity" is just defensiveness on your part. Or, to put it in language you might understand: "Troll harder, n00b."
I think you’ve missed the point of this whole website my friend.
Seeing all the phrases my old colleagues used has really solidified that leaving consulting was a good choice for my own sanity. Stop trying to ping me on a go-forward basis to utilize and action upcoming synergies in a fulsome manner!
My desk at an old job was adjacent to the desk of the woman in charge of a safety process (some variant of 5S and something else, I think). Every week there'd be a small gathering at her desk including a couple managers and people from some other departments (not sure what their roles were otherwise, the managers I knew were a few levels above me in engineering). I heard nearly every buzzword bingo term during those…
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My desk at an old job was adjacent to the desk of the woman in charge of a safety process (some variant of 5S and something else, I think). Every week there'd be a small gathering at her desk including a couple managers and people from some other departments (not sure what their roles were otherwise, the managers I knew were a few levels above me in engineering). I heard nearly every buzzword bingo term during those…
::in a drunken haze:: “Circle back to that!” “We faced challenges!” “Synergize our core competencies!” ::passes out::
(Weird Al Yankovic: Mission Statement)
First verse:
We must all efficiently Operationalize our strategies Invest in world-class technology And leverage our core competencies
I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)
I imagine our pointy-haired bosses would appreciate an "unsuck it" for tech jargon, with stuff like: orthagonal -> unrelated immutable -> unchangeable idempotent -> (is there a very short phrase that works here?)
I like that orthagonal suggests that they definitely intersect, but go in two different directions. Unrelated is too harsh in most of the situations you'd use orthagonal.
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::in a drunken haze:: “Circle back to that!” “We faced challenges!” “Synergize our core competencies!” ::passes out::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 (Weird Al Yankovic: Mission Statement) First verse: We must all efficiently Operationalize our strategies Invest in world-class technology And leverage our core competencies
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Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive.
Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive. No, it's because I have a degree is Communication, and understand the importance of language in the workplace. Any "insecurity" is just defensiveness on your part. Or, to put it in language you might understand: "Troll harder, n00b."
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Those aren't even jargon, they're just words a well-educated person would know.
Idempotent is definitely jargon. It was coined by a mathematician and the word has no use outside of a math/cs context.