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"We recently held a transformation bazaar to look at different system changes which could be implemented across the system but while making sure we maintain quality, adopt innovation and really grasp the prevention agenda."
(NHS is National Health Service for those not in the UK)
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JamesA_Dev wrote: We recently held a transformation bazaar to look at different system changes which could be implemented across the system but while making sure we maintain quality, adopt innovation and really grasp the prevention agenda.
Just as long as they are not wasting time and resources on all these idle malingerers lying about in the hospitals.
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Translation into English - "How can we get more money to maintain our ludicrously high salaries, and still appear to be doing something"
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ManagementSpeak: We recently held a transformation bazaar to look at different system changes which could be implemented across the system but while making sure we maintain quality, adopt innovation and really grasp the prevention agenda
RealEnglish: Job cuts. But not mine.
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This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones
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So that's where all the money went...
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As a non-American the word store to me means a place where things are kept. Our army have weapon stores and you sure cant buy a land mine there.
A shop is a place where retail activity occurs. When I hear "Apple store" I think of a room full of boxes of apples.
Anyways....I went to the Apple Store a little while ago to see about getting one of these new iPhones. I was served by a teenager who was chewing gum, bopping to the god awful music (do they hand out disco pills every morning?) and told me I needed to have a shopping appointment (interestingly not a storing appointment by thats irrelevant). I asked to make one only to be told I had to do it on line. People queue up for this sh*t?
I wish I was as fortunate
as fortunate as me
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Josh Gray wrote: People queue up for this sh*t?
I will be trying to work that line into conversations about Apple products in the future. 
--Mike--
Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam
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Back when I got my iPhone, I asked a "genius" at the genius bar if I could program for the iPhone using my Windows PC. He said something along the lines of "yeah, sure, I don't think they would lock you down to just the Mac." Not liking that response, I asked "well can you make sure of that?" So he goes and askes one of his fellow geniuses and comes back to say "no, I guess you can't." Those geniuses sure are diligent! 
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Webalation: a revaltion when sufing the web.
e.g. Gerrard had quite a webalation when searching for his girlfriend on facebook, as discovered her true name is Dave.
Pray god this one doesn't catch on.
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That is indeed quite wretched, but then again most anything beginning with 'web' is most likely a candidate for the circular file.
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keefb wrote: e.g. Gerrard had quite a webalation when searching for his girlfriend on facebook, as discovered her true name is Dave.
Sounds like something you'd wipe off your shoe.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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This is a phrase I try to use occasionally to mean an issue no one could have foresaw but which needs to be addressed, and with some degree of urgency. Feel free to use it.
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Is that in reference to the situation of having snakes on a plane, or a horrible movie whose script never should have seen the light of day 
only two letters away from being an asset
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Haha. You say that as if software developers never put out bad products...although I have not personally heard Samuel Jackson complain.
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"Get those mother-f***ing bugs off my mother-f***ing screen." Needs to be said in the best Samuel L voice.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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Why do people call data metadata. I really hate this, they start going on about the "metadata" and I automatically start thinking about data types and data lengths, encoding and stuff like that when what they actually mean data.
It is not impressive and does not make you sound clever. What using the word incorrectly does is when you talk to someone with database knowledge it makes you look like you do not know what you are talking about.
But most importantly it annoys me. There you go. My first rant.  
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Well now I try to remember:
He who does not know and knows he does not know, teach him.
He who knows and does not know he knows, enlighten him.
He who does not know and thinks he knows is an idiot, ignore him.
He knows and knows he knows... (go for it!)
or something along those lines, Confucius maybe
Regards
Mike
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Mike,
The words are a bit minced but it sounds like one of the chapters from the Tao Te Qing.
Michael
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It's not a word. The word is colleague. I know it's hard to spell and it sounds a little French but there is no such thing as a co-worker. If you really dislike the work colleague then use the term work mate.
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... you put the dash in the wrong spot. The proper term is cow-orker. 
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
-- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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(but it's reserved for only certain co-workers)
--Mike--
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Ah, but do Mr Websters' cow-orkers agree?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Mr. Webster is a very successful rancher, so his orkers were all busy, out in the fields orking the cows. They could not be reached for comment.
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Me Webster can't even spell. The real[^] dictionary agrees 
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