Company specific terminology

InsideInsurance

How many others find it frustrating when an employer/ client has their own specific terms for things that have very common/ well known names?

Whats particularly annoying with my current guys is that if you mention a teleconference or video conference etc they just look at you as if you are speaking a foreign language. Ok so they use the brand name of their kit/ supplier and thats ok but to not know the generic names just seems really odd to me.

Intranet and SharePoint were another two terms that no one seems to know despite they have an intranet site running on SharePoint that is used heavily.

bugslet

Most of my customers seem to speak in acronyms - absolutely no idea what they are on about half the time or what organisation they are referring to. Bless 'em.

wapow

Time to introduce ITIL.

skintpaul

Larger co's may have several systems, each with a specific purpose / user access?


I remember one firm I worked with, spent £££ on an 'internal digital messaging system'.. that's before email became popular!

InsideInsurance

Known many companies to reinvent the wheel for no reason. One company I worked with fairly recently spent $35m developing a new system, or at least that is how it was sold to the senior management. In reality it was just a new data capture tool to act as the front end of an existing system which actually had an ok front end already but had just been used inconsistently in different areas.

The UK lead did mention this but was branded a "trouble maker" and told to shut up if he wanted to still have a job post the revolution.

Even there though they created a new name for the software but did recognise it by using the generic name for the type of software it was. Unlike here who dont know what an intranet or video conference is