From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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Two new DOE sub-offices. The Grid Deployment office and the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. The latter to deal with the States, Tribes and Territories. To me, it would seem that the latter is an office created to get someone a cushy federal job.
The first office - Grid Deployment. It would seem that the government has failed us. ERDA was created under Ford, DOE under Carter and we've had to go through 6 more presidents, 2 ERDA Leaders, 16 secretaries of DOE and 47 years to create/focus on the electrical grid. Either a whole lot of people have been asleep at the wheel or this "new" office is a means to get some more space for little piglets to get their share at the taxpayer trough.
I can see asleep at the wheel. Livermore Lab's electrical grid suffered a near total meltdown in the 80's when it hadn't been properly upgraded and maintained since the days of the naval base. The lab learned a painful and powerful lesson when that failure occurred. Maybe that lesson will need to be visited upon California to get a wake up call. Perhaps then the AC goes out at the French Laundry and a bottle of expensive wine looses its chill.