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Ken Ortiz
June,
After I graduated college, I worked for a number of years at a "Hi-Tech" company. They were so AI (Acronym Intensive), that they bordered on AA (Acronym Abuse). From the organizations to the departments to the products, technologies, etc, conversations within sub-groups (bubbles) were a unique language. The funny thing was if you were an engineer outside the bubble, for example, if a LMPS (yes, we called them LuMPS) engineer was sitting in on two CIG engineers "talking shop", that person would be clueless. Here is an example of a typical conversation I would have with my manager on Monday after I got paged over the weekend to assist with a system deployment issue at a customer location. I spent a number of years involved with these types of technology roll outs in my engineering career.
MCSC paged me over the weekend because I was the OCTR and they needed my help to figure out why there were still OOS ERADS showing up at the GTE-TSI MTSO CWS. I told them that probably the regional SE's did not update the EEPROMS on the D40 OS RISC PROCS that were changed out after the Y2K conversion of our IS-41 converter. I reviewed the PM's IDP SOW and saw that step missing. Once the SE's updated the EEPROM FW and then REM/RES the EMX DMX links, the NODE came up, the SS7 links to the MSC came INS and the ERADS went away.
There are probably less than a dozen people in the whole world that would know exactly what I was talking about. That was how specific our little "Technology Bubbles" were where I worked at. In real life, we all have those "specific bubbles" with long time friends or family and I refer to that as ICP, or Inner Circle Phenomenon (no, not Insane Clown Posse, but a good second choice). I may discuss ICP in more detail in a future post (WA - Without Acronyms).
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