A Few Things I Never Want To Hear Again
Monday, October 30, 2006
Here are a few business and software terms / acronyms / abbreviations / expressions that I look forward to forgetting:
- COB - Close of Business
- "I will get that to you by COB today."
- LOE - Level of Effort
- "What is the LOE for that change?"
- Going Forward - From now on
- "What can we do, going forward, to prevent this from happening again?"
- Touch Base - Get in touch with
- "I'll try to touch base with you next week."
- Ping - A quick communication or a Nextel 'Walky Talky' style phone call
- "Ping me when you are covering my section in the meeting"
So many of these have slipped into my lexicon over the past few years as part of the corporate cultural indoctrination process that I am not certain whether I will ever be free of them. One thing is for sure, I don't like people I hardly know trying to touch my base.
Labels: corporate culture
written by Brian C. Mills at 07:57 
1 Comments:
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At 11/21/2006 10:23:00 AM,
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Something going around in my office, in addition to your comments: SO.
Every single sentence starts with "so".
So, I'm wondering how to go forward with...
So, I just want to make sure we're on the same page...
