I dedicate this post to all women on the occasion of their Day. Finally, after four hours she smiled sweetly and said “Lets touch base again on Wednesday.” It was at the end of a tiring business meeting and I was looking forward to going home and taking some Aspirin for my headache. My initial reaction was one of panic. Touch base? Whose base? Was she flirting with me? And then it dawned on me that ‘touch base’ could be just one of those new-fangled idioms so much in vogue with the modern professional. I felt silly. That meeting was memorable for two things – her whining, American accent (which, I suspect, triggered the headache) and her jargon. When I asked why no one from her IT department was present, she answered that her ‘alphageek’ had ‘too many balls in the air’. It took me a while to figure out that ‘alphageek’ meant “IT Head” and ‘too many balls in the air’ meant that he had his hand full at that particular time. Confiding to me ‘offline’, she described this alphageek as a complete ‘clocksucker’ whose ‘skills ecosystem’ and ‘core competencies’ needed a ‘paradigm shift’. Then she gave me a ‘heads up’ on her current ‘pain points’, her multiple ‘touch points’, her ‘fulfilment issues’ and asked for a solution that would ‘make it pop’. God! I am really out-of-date! During the coffee break she spoke of her boss, defining him as ‘the bees knees’. Is that a compliment, a term of endearment or a gaali? I think I need to spend a lot more time studying English. Or women.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 04:29:29 +0000
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