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What does this mean?

- Meet and build swim lanes with transition team

I've never heard of this term - swim lanes? What the [expletive] is that? I got this this a.m., and of course I shot back a sarcastic email that I'm sure is not going to be rec'd well but [expletive] 'em if they are going to talk to me in that bull [expletive] language.

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jim wrote:What does this mean?

- Meet and build swim lanes with transition team

I've never heard of this term - swim lanes? What the [expletive] is that? I got this this a.m., and of course I shot back a sarcastic email that I'm sure is not going to be rec'd well but [expletive] 'em if they are going to talk to me in that bull [expletive] language.

Well, what was your reply? something about pissing in the kiddie pool?

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jim wrote:What does this mean?

- Meet and build swim lanes with transition team

I've never heard of this term - swim lanes? What the [expletive] is that? I got this this a.m., and of course I shot back a sarcastic email that I'm sure is not going to be rec'd well but [expletive] 'em if they are going to talk to me in that bull [expletive] language.
I found a link.

http://www.brighthub.com/office/project ... 85265.aspx#

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Swim lane diagrams suck. I saw what they were talking about. It's a [expletive] flow chart with a bunch of extra lines that obfuscate the flow lines. Stupid [expletive] [expletive] [expletive]. God damn I hate these [expletive] that think of this mind numbing [expletive] nonsensical [expletive].

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I had a meeting with a client yesterday that was an acronym fest. We talked about Value Creation (VC), business units (BUs), cost of capital, including WACC and CAPM, return on capital (ROC), risk premia (RP), EVA, cost-benefit analyses (CBAs), and even one FUBAR. It was awesome. It really was.

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Hungary Jack wrote:I had a meeting with a client yesterday that was an acronym fest. We talked about Value Creation (VC), business units (BUs), cost of capital, including WACC and CAPM, return on capital (ROC), risk premia (RP), EVA, cost-benefit analyses (CBAs), and even one FUBAR. It was awesome. It really was.
Sounds like it.

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Leveraging synergies to maximize productivity.

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I would like to leverage Brooke Hogan

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Hungary Jack wrote:I would like to leverage Brooke Hogan
I had you for a park bench butt eating kind of guy. Not leverage.

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Fat_Bulldog wrote:
Hungary Jack wrote:I would like to leverage Brooke Hogan
I had you for a park bench butt eating kind of guy. Not leverage.
It is hard to get leverage working through a park bench.

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