{"id":806,"date":"2009-12-30T00:13:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2009-12-30T00:13:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:13:27","slug":"secret-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/12\/30\/secret-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Careers<\/a>: \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a new role where you\u2019ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in \u2018Compete\u2019, build a complete left to right understanding of the subsidiary, have a large amount of executive exposure, build and manage the activities of a v-team of 13 district Linux& Open Office Compete Leads, and develop a broad set of marketing skills and report to a management team committed to development and recognized for high WHI this is the position for you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is ironic, to use the Alanis Morissette meaning of the word [NSFW video<\/a>].<\/p>\n

The whole reason Microsoft even needs <\/em>a v-team of 13, um, \u201cV DASHES\u201d to compete against Open Office is that they\u2019ve become so insular that their job postings are full of incomprehensible jargon and acronyms which nobody outside the company can understand. With 93,000 employees, nobody ever talks to anyone outside the company, so it’s no surprise they’ve become a bizarre borg of “KT”, “Steve B”, “v-team”, “high WHI,” CSI, GM, BG, BMO (bowel movements?) and whatnot.<\/p>\n

When I worked at Microsoft almost two decades ago we made fun of IBM for having a different word for everything. Everybody said, “Hard Drive,” IBM said “Fixed Disk.” Everybody said, “PC,” IBM said “Workstation.” IBM must have had whole departments of people just to FACT CHECK the pages in their manuals which said, “This page intentionally left blank.”<\/p>\n

Now when you talk to anyone who has been at Microsoft for more than a week you can\u2019t understand a word they\u2019re saying. Which is OK, you can never understand geeks. But at Microsoft you can\u2019t even understand the marketing<\/em> people, and, what\u2019s worse, they don\u2019t seem to know<\/em> that they\u2019re speaking in their own special language, understood only to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Careers: \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a new role where you\u2019ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve… Read more “Secret language”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-d0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}