Corporate Speak

[jim]

Without looking this up, all I can tell you is that someone explained it to me that IPv6 was going to replace IPv4 (for the need of more addresses, etc.) and that the two systems were not interoperable.

They have to be. You aren't going to be able to switch the entire world over at the same instant. I'm not a networking person though, I just write software to monitor them. The details of how this is done is beyond my skill set.

[Radbird]

I want to know what the hell happened to the IPv5?

[JackofDiamonds]

Oh, I think you know.

[jim]

This [expletive] likes making sure we work until at least 5pm on Friday's too. just scheduled a meeting a 4:00. He put it off so we could "partake" - yes he uses the work partake as well - in a bull [expletive] optional cookie caucus that nobody goes to at 3:00. I'm heading downstate tonight, and was hoping to be on the road by 5. But this meeting will go until at least 5:30, 6 before I'm home, 6:30 before I leave. IF everything goes right.

If I make it 6 more months I'll be lucky.

[lukethedrifter]

cookie caucus? did you really say cookie caucus?

[jim]

cookie caucus? did you really say cookie caucus?

That's what they call it believe it or not. And I'm on a phone conference right now and it is confirmed that the 3:00 meeting was pushed back to 4 because of the god damned cookie caucus.

[greenback44]

WTF is a cookie caucus?

I had a partaker boss a few years ago. The boss that replaced the partaker spent his first three months trying to figure out the purposes for all the meetings that the partaker had set up. So we had meetings about meetings. It turned out that the partaker had worked with HR to build a Master Plan, and the Master Plan included a never-ending string of meetings. Each meeting was designed explicitly to address some HR concern. Of course the meetings were useless, which was why the new boss was trying to end them. But because HR demanded that we continue to check the boxes within the Master Plan, the new boss couldn't get rid of the meetings.

Part of me thinks the partaker was just trying to get us in the habit of working weekends (which I'm doing today), because there was no [expletive] way we could get anything done during the week.

[jim]

Last Friday of the month, 3:00, a department sponsors it and buys cookies/punch/snacks etc... and everyone gets together and eats and plays grab ass and that is supposed to build morale in an organization that hasn't had raises in 2 years and where all of the interesting work has dried up. But hey - screw that - Cookies!

[pioneer98]

A pet peeve of mine is when a high level manager really needs me to do something, but they still present it to me as if they are "persuading" me to do it, and not "commanding" me to do it.

A common phrase when this is happening is: "This would be a great opportunity". I wish they'd just cut the crap and tell me I need to drop all my other projects and work on this other one. I'd rather have honesty. Please, don't pretend like I have a choice in the matter. All my projects are "great opportunities", depending on who you ask.

[mikechamp]

Someone care to translate this exquisite collection of buzz phrases?

http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2013/07/th ... ise-s.html