Received via email recently: Director of _______ has exited the company. Rather than backfilling this role, we will embed lean process excellence throughout this department Overheard in a recent meeting: We’re in a sort of cross-functional task force mode. [Ed:] My goodness, isn’t that contradictory? Either you’re multi-tasking or focusing on one task … am-I-rite?
These are from the same department at one company Authorizator – refers to an individual with system administrative priveleges. Acronymize – “We do not want to acronymize our product names for clients.” “De-Dupic” – “How this de-dupic process works . . .” referring to database “de-duping” process. Grammatic – “Some people are just grammatic.” “It […]
After getting laid off as a highly-paid programmer at a startup I had the good fortune (??) to land another job within 2 weeks. It was a three month contract at another startup company in a high-rise downtown. The pay was much less and I had no benefits – but I had to take it […]