Is it just me or does it seem like a whole load of new guys have just showed up out of nowhere. Seems like every other post is a guy with less than ten total posts.
I love it. It sure makes things more interesting to have some fresh opinions.
Am I just imagining this? If not, is there anything special that has happened recently that caused it?
"I'm in collision with every stone I ever threw." - David Gray
It seems like we get runs of them. Some of them feel welcome here and stay. Others leave, and at least one gets banned by CRZ for being excessively stupid. I like it, though part of my brain seems to want to shout: "New guys not as cool as original crew! Must.... HOLD THEM DOWN!" But it's cool.
Weclome Newbies! Enjoy our wonderful board, and help keep it that way!
-Jag
We were all newbies once. Well, except for those of you who weren't. But you're just weird.
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Originally posted by The Amazing SalamiIs it just me or does it seem like a whole load of new guys have just showed up out of nowhere. Seems like every other post is a guy with less than ten total posts.
I love it. It sure makes things more interesting to have some fresh opinions.
Am I just imagining this? If not, is there anything special that has happened recently that caused it?
You stated it well in the thread with "New Users".
I meant no offense, of course, for it is just a personal quirk with me. All of the corporate, new-age, politically correct jargon and new words constantly created make me want to vomit.
"You know Monsoon, I am impressed, and I don't impress easy" -Jesse "The Body" Ventura
Originally posted by jfkfcIs it me, or is newbies one of the most annoying, arrogant, and patronizing words, right along with proactive, playdate, and Oprah?
Simpsons episode with Poochie and Roy
Krusty: So he's proactive, huh?
Network Executive: Oh God yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Writer #3: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't those just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. (pause) I'm fired aren't I?
Roger Myers Jr.: Oh yes.
From the Desk of Head Booker Stephanie McMahon Attn: Paul Heyman re: Dialouge memo for Smackdown 8/29/02 Cole: "Brock Lesnar, exclusive to Smackdown thanks to a coup Monday night by Stephanie McMahon." Tazz: "Stephanie rocks man!"
"Well, you can't involve friendship with business. It has to be one or the other. It's either business or friendship, or hit the bricks!" --Life Lessons from "The Tao of Bobby the Brain Heenan" Uncensored 2000 preview
I have never actually had "paradigm" used on me, outside of Dilbert. I had "triage" used in a non-"ER" sense, which annoyed me. "Being proactive" has always caused me great irritation, because I wonder why someone can't just use "taking initiative"?
"You know Monsoon, I am impressed, and I don't impress easy" -Jesse "The Body" Ventura
The word that drives me nuts is "synergy". Once during a meeting in the office several years ago, our department manager said something to the effect of "i think there's a lot of synergy in our group". That word caused me to react by jerking backward and looking down at the table top so no one could see a look of disgust on my face. after the meeting my friend said the boss looked at me weird when I did that. D'oh!
No-no-no-no. You see, those are the secret code words that managers use to determine whether somebody they're talking to is one of them. Its like "Red doves fly at sunset.", with an answer of "Blue poodles pee at dawn." Those words aren't supposed to make any inherent sense -- as a matter of fact, they're more effective when their intrinsic meaning is jibberish, thus making it less likely that an interloper would get through the screening process.
The techno-weenies have plenty of jargon that the Managers don't understand, so the Managers would feel at sea without some terminology to call their own.
What's really scary is to run across somebody -- ooooh, say a consultant -- who can slide comfortably between management-speak & techno-ese, without batting an eye.
Something like "We're going to need a rack of 4 DL360's running Debian, and an OpenBSD firewall with a strong ipf ruleset to help actualise your e-commerce solution"...?
I think I've been guilty of that sort of Consultant-speak in the past. I've curbed it since I got out of the corporate world.
... Adam
Oh, I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to infer that you might be poverty stricken. Should I revise my statement to make it clear that you have way more money than brains?
Hey! I'm a newbie so I'll respond. While it's disturbing to recognize jargon, it's even more disturbing to have the ability to pinpoint where it originiated. "Paradigm" for example, is from Thomas S. Kuhn's 1962 book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
Whenever I get sent an email that contains one of these words that defy rational thought, I always make sure that my reply contains at least one of the following words or phrases:
"load of absolute crap" "I am vexed as to the tone of your note" "ingesting the odor of false accusations" "vomit" "you must have been busy picking hardened mucus from either of your nasal cavities" "your input is akin to a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest" "your zodiac sign must have been Feces" "fuck you" "I am out of the office, but will return Monday"
If I don't use one of these, I do enter their work email address into some porn sites or something.
(edited by jfkfc on 12.9.02 1308) "You know Monsoon, I am impressed, and I don't impress easy" -Jesse "The Body" Ventura
One of these days, I'm going to have to find that "Board Meeting Bullshit Bingo" sheet I had a while ago - basically saying that, if you hear anyone use the words/phrases 'synergy,' 'proactive,' 'outside the box,' (the stuff that's been said here), you put it down as an X and try to make a straight line. I forget what all the others were, but there were 16 or 25 or something like that.