Jan Levinson-Gould: Sports metaphors are one of the ways women feel left out of the language of the office. Now, I know this might sound silly, but many women ask to go over it, so, "fumble" means... Phyllis: Mistake. Meredith: Slip. Jan Levinson-Gould: Right. "Par for the course" is a golf term. It means "right on track." "Below par" means "worse." Wait. That should mean better. That doesn't make sense. Kelly Kapoor: What about "second base"? Like, if Michael said he got to second base with you, does that mean you, like, closed a deal? Jan Levinson-Gould: Excuse me? Kelly Kapoor: I mean, that's a baseball term, right? Jan Levinson-Gould: I don't know what Michael was talking about. I don't know.
Like a week of classes. I don't really use. I guess it depends on what your company wants to do with it
tech company term that's really starting to get to me - calling the testing environment the sandbox "Is that through QA yet?" "It hasn't made it there, it's still in our sandbox." *shoots up office*
i can top that, i think when i joined my current org i realized everyone referred to the testing environment as the "production environment," like where people "produce things." i tried to explain that the term "production environment" typically refers to the live environment and is explicitly not for testing, and got: "Uh well that's what we call it here."
my biggest pet peeve term right now is the misuse of the word "insight". I'm sorry creative department...but you googling shit and coming back with "Millennials use their smart devices a lot" (or some other readily available common knowledge) isn't insightful and doesnt make you sound smart. Apparently we have a lot of people by saying "we provide insights" makes them sound smarter.
That is hilarious. They could have chosen any weird name to call test/dev but they chose the only word that literally means the opposite of what they mean.
I mean you can do some fucked up shit and be like what the fuck but test is test and production is production
I feel bad for people new to the industry that work there and will have learned things totally backwards. Not to mention how hard their job has to be when they call customers and sound like they have no idea what they are talking about because they switch those terms. I feel like it wouldn't matter how hard you insist Production is test/dev lol
Agree our developers say it. Started putting it on marketing materials forcing us to have to explain what the fuck that means at conferences and meetings.
You can't be a developer without using "sandbox" regularly. But yea I can see how it is annoying as fuck
This thread needs to be more lean. Who wants to oversee a kaizen event to find muda and identify some areas ripe for process improvement? Where are our Six Sigma blackbelts. Are you all in?!
You know what works better than Kaizen to find inefficiency? Give the task to the laziest member on your team. They're the best at finding steps you can skip. lazy team members so much
"When do we need this by?" "End of March, but our drop dead date is 4/15." "So 4/15, but 3/31 if possible? Got it."
Each team has a silo'd approach when we'd get far better ROI if there was a cross-collaborative effort across the enterprise.
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Thank you for sharing this. It's about time that we start cross collaborating on communication instead of working in silos.
I hear it used in person 90 percent of the time. Someone asks a question during the meeting and they say " I can answer this offline", which doesnt make sense because you were not on the line.
Sometimes it's necessary to let the team know you're playing devil's advocate before you declare that it may indeed need to be taken offline.
This guy clearly doesn't have enough skin in the game. Team, let's level set and work on a PIP (performance improvement plan) for Mitch.
When we have to put an emergency bug fix or something else into production, it's called an Emergency Deployment. Everyone calls it an "emer" for short. Just in the past couple of weeks, I've seen people writing it in emails as E-mer. It makes me feel angry.