Techies decrease productivity, survey says.

Rob Updegrove 23 Sep, 2005 at 11:08am ET Article published in Tech

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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 12:36pm drasnor That's nothing; I've spent 4 hours a week deciphering business jargon. Anyone know what a synergistic paradigm is off the top of their head?
   
   -drasnor
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 12:49pm primesuspect Are you sure the author didn't mean "Techese" instead of "techies"?
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 1:01pm shwaip

   primesuspect wrote:

   Are you sure the author didn't mean "Techese" instead of "techies"?

   
   You're just throwing more jargon out there to confuse them .
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 1:22pm TheBaron correct jargon though
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 1:29pm profdlp

   Mr Fletcher, managing director of Computer People, said: "We're finding that many clients are increasingly requiring professionals who have concise communication expertise as they recognise this improves company productivity in the long run."

   (Emphasis added)
   
   This has been true since the dawn of time. Communicate well and you'll be more efficient. What's the big surprise?
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 2:07pm GHoosdum Techies is the word I used for the headline; we're the ones that propagate the tech jargon, so by inference it's us that decrease the productivity of the stupid-heads who don't understand 'techese'.
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 5:49pm FormFactor

   drasnor wrote:

   That's nothing; I've spent 4 hours a week deciphering business jargon. Anyone know what a synergistic paradigm is off the top of their head?
   
   -drasnor

   
   
   Good one dras! Its true I spend most of my day wondering wtf a user is trying to do and why.
   
   Business people, and tech people will never see eye to eye.
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   23 Sep 2005 ~ 6:46pm Thrax Yeah, and the dumbasses who walk into Best Buy with hand-scribbled notes, scrawled like chicken-scratch on a scrap piece of paper, about errors that don't (In the slightest) match the errors I receive when I turn the computer on for the check-in process don't ruin my productivity.
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   24 Sep 2005 ~ 4:34am Shorty From a business perspective, this is getting more common. Alot of managers who interface with IT don't have the foggiest about a technical process at all. If you can't break it down into simple terms (high level as they seem to like it being called ) then it's going to waste time.
   
   They don't want to know the full shebang as to why something is happening, just an overview with a fix timestamp & root cause rather than listening to some overworked, underpaid IT engineer trying to explain the finer points of why the SAN disks have dropped off the ESS and thus the SQL cluster has died with it. Such is life.
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    24 Sep 2005 ~ 10:52am airbornflght heh heh heh...sounds like me telling my teachers what the problem is..Their faces usualy look like i just told them the problem in french...
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    24 Sep 2005 ~ 11:08am Qeldroma

    airbornflght wrote:

    heh heh heh...sounds like me telling my teachers what the problem is..Their faces usualy look like i just told them the problem in french...

    
    For many of these handling my calls now, I think French is the more familiar language.