The code.

So they've found a new project for me at work. And it's a major project. But luckily it has a procedure that is already written and goes with it. That generally makes things easier... you know, step by step instructions. Except for these. This is a 21 step process. Which might not be that bad... if I didn't have 760 issues that had to be run though that process. And, the process contains, about 7 different, acronyms. I mean, what would corporate america be without them? I know that 7 different acronyms doesn't sound like a lot. But I have counted 30 times they are used. This document is ONLY a page and a half. Doublespaced.

Dude.

And it doesn't make any sense. It reads like, George Bush wrote it... Sorry all you Bush fans out there, but todays quote from the Bush-isms Calendar is:
"The basic tenets of Islam is peace and respect and tolerance. And that's what they wanted to make the point to me, that we are - that's the way we are." George W. Bush Oct 22, 2003. On board Airforce One.

But acronyms are the Everdream way. They are the corporate way. It's almost like a Corporate code. Have you ever noticed that the people that know the code the best are the ones that get promoted. For instance, you hear someone say in the breakroom, "hey, ya know we are down with the SE in Surfboard. The OLS, went code and the GM talked to IT and they checked the ECC for the SMA and Asset, but couldn't find it." And you think to yourself. What a moron... to say something that stupid in front of the VP of Operations... that didn't even make sense. But then a few weeks later that person is promoted and you have a long meaningless lunch by yourself wondering what the secret is to failing upwards.

I'm telling you people. It's the code. And that's all it is. Hell, I should know. I speak it fluently.