Monday, January 17, 2011

I know those words but this job description makes no sense

Friend just emailed that this is what she's doing in her new job at the State Dept:
building a medium-scale, dynamic information and management platform that provides State with a transparent, collaborative and controlled planning, implementation and measurement management tool
She is one of the smartest, most accomplished people I've ever known, so I'm not mocking. I'm just marveling at the staggeringly low meaningfulness-R on number-of-words-I. 24 words and I am no nearer having even the haziest picture of what she's doing than before I got her email. What baffles me further is that her background is in hardcore finance (mostly MBS) and she knows like 8 languages (I mean really knows, not knows the way I know other languages, I mean knows as in 'can debate politics and literary criticism in all of them without it ever becoming apparent to native speakers that she isn't one herself'), but this sounds like an IT job. I am getting a kick out of imagining it as a strictly literal physical description.

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