Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Going through some rebranding training, and if I have to hear another corporate/IT buzzword I will vomit.

You mean…outsource your inventory on board in a LIFO regime at the end of the day?

 

[Ryujin]

Going through some rebranding training, and if I have to hear another corporate/IT buzzword I will vomit.

And it's always great when co-workers truck out the new buzzwords they just learned, in a session, in ways that show they really don't understand what they mean.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

And it's always great when co-workers truck out the new buzzwords they just learned, in a session, in ways that show they really don't understand what they mean.

I try not to be a pedant, but there are some things (imply/infer for example) that bug me to hell.

On the other hand, I try to be forgiving. Because I remember my experiences; like some others, I read a lot, which meant that I had a massive reading vocabulary, but I didn't always know how to say the words I knew.

So I can remember a few doozies when I first trotted out a word in a spoken conversation. Aficionado? Oh yeah.....

 

[Scribe]

 

[Ryujin]

I try not to be a pedant, but there are some things (imply/infer for example) that bug me to hell.

On the other hand, I try to be forgiving. Because I remember my experiences; like some others, I read a lot, which meant that I had a massive reading vocabulary, but I didn't always know how to say the words I knew.

So I can remember a few doozies when I first trotted out a word in a spoken conversation. Aficionado? Oh yeah.....

I'm thinking more about technical terms or that corp-speak previously mentioned. Like with the Lean training I had to take. Now everyone is talking about how we need to be Lean in order to deal with the problems that are directed to our group. Ummmm, that's not how it's supposed to work. We're supposed to stop them before they become problems we have to deal with. Like that hoary old buzzword that seems to have fallen out of favour; "proactive." Fix it once and never worry again about that issue, or fix it every time someone trips over it.

Here's an example, and I'll try to simplify for the non-techies. We recently changed our domain name, due to some perception about our founder's historic actions (we're talking pre war of 1812, 'cause he was already dead by then). That means we have to move all of our computers over to the new name. We set a deadline for the first batch to be moved over at the beginning of October. Right after they moved the guys who control the old domain terminated a portion of it, because it was what controlled the migrated computers. Great, except that it also controls printer access for maybe half the computers that haven't been moved yet, as well. Been dealing with the fallout from that ever since and it's stressing out the two of us who do the majority of that kind of support.

Consider repercussions, before pulling the trigger. Dead stays dead.

 

[payn]

I'm thinking more about technical terms or that corp-speak previously mentioned. Like with the Lean training I had to take. Now everyone is talking about how we need to be Lean in order to deal with the problems that are directed to our group. Ummmm, that's not how it's supposed to work. We're supposed to stop them before they become problems we have to deal with. Like that hoary old buzzword that seems to have fallen out of favour; "proactive." Fix it once and never worry again about that issue, or fix it every time someone trips over it.

Here's an example, and I'll try to simplify for the non-techies. We recently changed our domain name, due to some perception about our founder's historic actions (we're talking pre war of 1812, 'cause he was already dead by then). That means we have to move all of our computers over to the new name. We set a deadline for the first batch to be moved over at the beginning of October. Right after they moved the guys who control the old domain terminated a portion of it, because it was what controlled the migrated computers. Great, except that it also controls printer access for maybe half the computers that haven't been moved yet, as well. Been dealing with the fallout from that ever since and it's stressing out the two of us who do the majority of that kind of support.

Consider repercussions, before pulling the trigger. Dead stays dead.

No leader gets promo by not pointlessly reinventing the wheel. Now pull up them bootstraps and get to work.

 

[Scribe]

Sometimes the joke writes itself, but is it worth the sure fire infraction?

 

[DrunkonDuty]

My group had a great time with an all-bards game a couple of years back. Been trying to convince my wife to run a sequel ever since.

 

[Bedrockgames]

(2) Anyone who thinks that New York bagels are special has never been to Montreal. Schwartz's Deli, specifically.

It comes down to ingredients and how they are made IMO. NY does not have a monopoly on good bagels

 

[trappedslider]

I try not to be a pedant

try harder