| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5321 |
| Total number of notes: | 139771 |
"Custom project engineering capability is a differentiator that extends Digital's value proposition for our business partners and customers." "Computer Special Systems Joins Systems Business Unit" message from Harry Copperman and Vincenzo Damiani. Whatever happened to plain English? I fail to see the value in dressing up, what could have been a simple statement, so that ordinary people like myself have to spend time decoding it. IMO this is what separates management from the rest of the workforce or.... "Custom managerial-oriented linguistic phraseology is a differentiator that extends the negative-partnership between Digital's management and it's biological assets". John
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| 4683.1 | USAT05::HALLR | Thu Jun 27 1996 07:33 | 6 | ||
John:
U don't REALLY want them to tell you what's going on, do u?
:-)
Ron
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| 4683.2 | No, this is poetry... | BULEAN::ROBERTS | Are your lights out? | Thu Jun 27 1996 09:55 | 36 |
At my terminal I sat typing, Trying hard to fight off napping. When there came a slight, soft rapping, Rapping on my office door, Only that and nothing more. Then I sat up, startled, freaking Just to hear a voice a-speaking "Your presence now I am a-seeking, Seeking on the lobby floor, Bring your badge and nothing more" What is this I'm a-hearing? Is it the news that I've been fearing? Now my desk they'll soon be clearing, Clearing posters off my door, Varnished wood and nothing more. I bolted upright, staggered, straining From my head the blood a-draining See the hurt and shock I'm feigning Feigning hurt and loss galore Pure BS and nothing more Now the bloody axe is falling Now the perpetrater stalling "Personnel may soon be calling, Call you to another chore" I think, "Right pal, nevermore" In my beach chair I'm a-napping Now my consciousness is sapping By the soothing steady lapping, Lapping waves upon the shore Just this beer, then a few more... | |||||
| 4683.3 | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Thu Jun 27 1996 10:09 | 3 | |
re .0: He probably picked it from "The Dilbert Principle".
(It is really under "business books" at Barnes & Noble).
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| 4683.4 | STAR::EVANS | Thu Jun 27 1996 12:00 | 6 | ||
I understand that a new verb "dilberted" has come into use - as in my boss dilberted me again by revising the specs for the seventh time. When some of these sentences get thrown out, I sometimes think I'm being dilberted. Jim | |||||
| 4683.5 | Take a look at this... | WHYNOW::NEWMAN | Installed Base Marketing - DTN 223-5795 | Thu Jun 27 1996 12:21 | 3 |
For those of you with access to the web take a look at:
http://www.athenanow.com/cgi-bin/engine.cgi
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| 4683.6 | Cross-reference... (I'm cross. Are you?) | ATLANT::SCHMIDT | See http://atlant2.zko.dec.com/ | Thu Jun 27 1996 14:05 | 7 |
We had an entire topic dedicated to this (4640, "Nu Werdz")
but then the moderators decided it wasn't sufficiently
business-related.
Ah well.
Atlant
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