What if I'm drunk or horny? Will it know that I'm a geek by day and a drunk pervert by night?
I can't log on to my own system to watch porn? WTF?!?!?!?!?!
Unfortunately, this does happen to be a crucial part in climbing the sometimes obsequious corporate ladder. Know that you are not alone in your situation. Many professionals, in our field and in others, have to learn to live with, and speak, this daunting corporate jargon.
Particularly in my position as a business owner, having to deal with individuals in another industry or professional class altogether. I'm a web developer (among other things) who has to deal with salesmen, other business owners, security professionals, etc. And you'll find that all of them have there own special buzz words.
Just remember that they went to some business school or management training program and that these are "industry terms" for them just as terms like wireframing, server side coding, or contextual selectors are to some or most of us.
My advice is this: 1)when you hear a term that you're unfamiliar with, make a mental note of it and look it up on the net or in a book later. Try to understand their "business" or way of thinking just like we as IT professionals wish they understood our "business" or way of thinking. These may be the same people that a web site can be built by inserting autoshapes and text into a Word document and that it can be done in six to eight hours. And along those lines....2)Find someone in your company who works in the corporate/business/sales arena that is also interested in what it is that you do exactly. Teach them your processes or how things work, and ask them to do the same. This mutual mentoring will do wonders.
A wise man once said "Never dress for the position that you have, dress for the position that you want." The same goes for speech and mannerisms. You've somehow moved up the corporate ladder.....keep climbing.
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What if I'm drunk or horny? Will it know that I'm a geek by day and a drunk pervert by night? I can't log on to my own system to watch porn? WTF?!?!?!?!?!
Unfortunately, this does happen to be a crucial part in climbing the sometimes obsequious corporate ladder. Know that you are not alone in your situation. Many professionals, in our field and in others, have to learn to live with, and speak, this daunting corporate jargon. Particularly in my position as a business owner, having to deal with individuals in another industry or professional class altogether. I'm a web developer (among other things) who has to deal with salesmen, other business owners, security professionals, etc. And you'll find that all of them have there own special buzz words. Just remember that they went to some business school or management training program and that these are "industry terms" for them just as terms like wireframing, server side coding, or contextual selectors are to some or most of us. My advice is this: 1)when you hear a term that you're unfamiliar with, make a mental note of it and look it up on the net or in a book later. Try to understand their "business" or way of thinking just like we as IT professionals wish they understood our "business" or way of thinking. These may be the same people that a web site can be built by inserting autoshapes and text into a Word document and that it can be done in six to eight hours. And along those lines....2)Find someone in your company who works in the corporate/business/sales arena that is also interested in what it is that you do exactly. Teach them your processes or how things work, and ask them to do the same. This mutual mentoring will do wonders. A wise man once said "Never dress for the position that you have, dress for the position that you want." The same goes for speech and mannerisms. You've somehow moved up the corporate ladder.....keep climbing.