RE: Words that should never be uttered or documented...

["Domaschuk, Rob" <Robd -at- datalogics -dot- com>]

Maybe last night was the night for such phrases. Someone said to me (while
complaining about different doc standards by different groups in their
company):

	The problem is that they've silo-ed the information.

"Silo-ed"? I asked. Turns out they were using the past tense of "silo" (as
in a grain silo, or information silo). Ahh yes, I thought to myself, the
dubious practice of converting nouns into verbs.

I never was able to get a clear definition of what this person meant. They
didn't even know, when I pressed them for an explanation of "silo-ing".

You just know in five years this person will be in charge of an IT
department.

<sigh>


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