Hi all, sorry for not having written anything for so long….have been very busy for the last 6 months, 1st with college placements, then partying and rejoicing my placement with Infosys, and finally with all the work that landed up in my lap thanks to the placement. Err…actually the last line is a complete lie!! I couldn’t think of anything to write about for all these days and hence the gap. But all that is about to change, I am planning a return after a hiatus of almost half a year and what best thing to write about than my work or rather the industry in which I work.
After a lot of speculation, analysis and counseling during my MBA days, I came to the conclusion that IT was the sector of my interest. To be frank it wasn’t too difficult a choice; I had slogged it out in the sun during my summer placements and tanned skin, loss of hair and low pay were reasons good enough for me to choose IT as a ‘comfortable’ sector to work in. The sector turned out to be quite an interesting one, with the best brains in the industry striving hard to put Indian software services on the global map and I must say they have succeeded to large extent. But this article isn’t about that, it is about the corporate jargons that I came across in my so far short n sweet stint in the industry. Here is a list of a few jargons that I have come across – some I could decode the others are still bouncers for me.
- Out-of-box: For any person with average English knowledge, out-of-the box is not a new word. But welcome to IT where deletion of the word ‘the’ absolutely inverts the meaning of the word. In IT parlance ‘out-of-box’ means standard features offered by a software packages minus any customizations and configurations, unlike out-of-the box which means different, unconventional and odd. In other words, out-of-box in IT stands for plain vanilla – now I wonder if that’s an IT jargon too!!
- Folks: This term may be specific to Infy, or may be used across the industries, am not too sure about that, but I sure do find it amusing!! So whenever someone is addressing a group of people, he/she addresses then as “Folks”!! Not Guys, Not Team, But Folks!! 1st thing that comes to my mind after I hear this word is a group of traditionally dressed people, all set to do a ‘Folk dance’ on some ‘Folk Songs’!! Just when I manage to get rid of that image, the second thing that pops in my mind is that pig/daffy duck/bugs bunny from Looney tunes cartoons that says “that’s all folks!!” By the time I manage to kick out the second image out of my brain, the speaker is almost done with his speech and the damage has been done!!!
- Hang-around: This is the favorite line for all bosses of the entire lot of benched guy in IT!! 1st week of bench is bliss, in the 2nd week one runs out of interesting websites and somehow even the newspaper doesn’t have any good articles!! 3rd you dare to go to your boss out of sheer boredom to ask (read as beg) for your next assignment and he says “Actually there are a few things planned in the pipeline, but nothing concrete – you just ‘Hang-around’ and touch base with me next week!! Hang-around??!! What exactly does he expect me to do!! And then when you have absolutely nothing to do, you keep landing up meeting your boss in all the odd places – the elevator, the coffee machine, the wash room, the longest aisle on your floor…where each one of us keep staring at the other, and all we can manage is a smile or a infrequent “hello” cause both know there is nothing else to talk about!!
- Dynamics of the IT industry: This phrase is used so often in IT that it might beat the word ‘the’ and become the new most frequently used phrase/word in the world!! (*please see the list of the most frequently used 100 words at the end of this article, for all those who are interested in knowing it, and have nothing better to do in life). For every question that cannot be answered quantitatively or qualitatively in IT, there is only one answer, “you have to get used to the dynamics of the IT industry!!” ‘Why am I being relocated?’, ‘Why was I not allocated to this project?’, ‘Why am I not getting a release in this project?’, “Why did Britney Spears get a divorce?’ can all be explained by one common reply “The Dynamics of IT industry!!”
The 100 commonest English words found in writing around the world:-
Source - http://www.askoxford.com/( Could you believe it that f*** does not feature in that list!! This thing is so f***ing rigged!! Hehe)
1 comment:
here I see you: another wasted MBA :( Its worse when I have to say , welcome to the club :)
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