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Why 81? it seems that they tried to hire as much as possible, not wise.
by ludwigvan 16y ago
Why 81? it seems that they tried to hire as much as possible, not wise.
- ovi256 16y agoThey placed them in a 9 by 9 organizational matrix to fuel synergies through increased communication by placing them in a physical 9 by 9 cubicle matrix. Or maybe that's all the headhunters could find.
- Jabbles 16y agoOr a 3x3x3x3 hypercube?
- rwmj 16y agoC++ is definitely in some other dimension.
- Sindisil 16y agoI don't suppose there's any chance we can send it back?
- bitwize 16y agoTrick it into saying its name backwards?
- eru 16y agoThree times?
- angrycoder 16y agounless it is part of an assignment statement, a conditional, or a loop, it will have the same effect.
- eru 16y agoThat's writing the name backwards.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoWhere's Gene Ray when you need him?
- IgorPartola 16y agoWhat is this synergy/syngeries/synerging I keep hearing about? I know the meaning of the word and I see that it's some kind of a big company cliche, but where'd it come from?
- lincolnq 16y agoI don't know. My first memory of it is from Dilbert (and I can find a comic from 1997 with a synergy joke) but I would be surprised if that were the origin of the meme. It's hard to track down even when it started showing up.
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- arethuza 16y agoMost of these terms seem to have been introduced by strategic consulting firms (e.g. McKinsey or BAH) and then filtered out into general management usage.
- bitwize 16y agoWhenever I hear that word I still think of the AI that Jem uses to generate her hologram-self.
- Natsu 16y agoMaybe they need to have nine babies in one month?
- DougBTX 16y agoOr 80 in nine months.