After working for a year in a global consulting firm, i felt i had been exposed to as much jargon as possible. As an entry level techie who was separated from the wall to wall carpet by just interns and security, i wouldnt say that i was an active user , but i have done my fair share of KT and followed the Process and attended ConCalls(just that! u call up ppl and fool them into thinkin u are listening).

My time was spent reading a lot of dilbert, walking down to the dhaba and queueing up at the cafeteria. But mostly I explored cutting edge SAP-APO concepts, wrote awesomely efficient extractors that sent all kinds of data to BW. (this is for my past and future employers)

So, back to the dilbert reading. I signed myself for a subscription (free of course, i am a mallu after all. and a Gelf one at that. which reminds me of why am the proud owner and user of a colgate 360 brush. there was this tube of paste free. note to self - tak about colgate 360). I hade a Dilbert screensaver : a searchlight that looked for office intelligence. I made references to the strips in my casual conversations. I began my day waiting for the strip to load. The strip became the highlight of my 2 - 11 day.

I used to look at the strips and say , OMG that is so totally what is happening to me right noww.

And now, 3 months into a Bschool , i am a changed woman. stripped of my naivite. i used to think i knew jargon.

Here are a few samples i picked up today . i plan to add the sarcasm later.

We do not make washing machines. We are not a manufacturing company. not an innovation company, not a technical company. We are a customer company.