{"id":255,"date":"2005-09-22T06:15:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T06:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/a-new-lexicon\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T06:15:35","slug":"a-new-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2005\/09\/a-new-lexicon\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This August, I completed a year of working for the organization I spend most of my waking hours in.&nbsp; And, it occurred to me that, over the past 12 months or so, I seem to have picked up a bit of its &quot;vocabulary&quot;!&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a glimpse :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Explain every thing you know about it to your colleague. <\/p>\n<p> &#8211; OR Debrief your colleagues after a meeting you had that they were not a part of.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; OR Handover to your reportee \/ your colleague \/ the-new-guy-on-the-job.&nbsp; As in, once you have resigned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>De-grow<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Shrink! (Not to be confused with growing at a decelerating pace)   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>RnR<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Orginally meant to convey &#8216;Rewards &amp; Recognition&#8217;; Now signifying any award function\/ceremony!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how the <em>same <\/em>words mean <em>totally different <\/em>things in a different context&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This August, I completed a year of working for the organization I spend most of my waking hours in.  And, it occurred to me that, over the past 12 months or so, I seem to have picked up a bit of its &#8220;vocabulary&#8221;!  Here&#8217;s a glimpse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}