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Work Update
Tuesday, 2007 April 3 - 8:34 am
A rare glimpse into the fascinating world of telecom geekery.

We had an All Hands Meeting at work the other day. Being that we work for a telecommunications company, we use the term "AHM" for this. At Nortel, this sort of meeting was called a General Information Session ("GIS"). I grew to think of them as Yet Another Wasted Naptime ("YAWN").

However, this particular AHM was useful, because it explained precisely what it is our company does in a concise and easy-to-remember way. Usually, when people ask me what we do, I hesitate for a minute, because I know that if I get three words into the explanation, their eyes will glaze over and they'll start thinking how much better off their lives were ten seconds ago. Hmm... I think I'd rather be looking at Uncle Fred's hernia surgery photos right now.

Essentially, what our company does is make equipment that allows people to get phone service, television, and Internet access over a single connection (either a high speed DSL connection, or fiber). This combination of voice, video, and data service is called "Triple Play" in the industry, a term which I consider inferior to the one I came up with, "Tasty Threesome".

So apparently, our company was at a trade show in South America a little while ago. There, they came up with the perfect way to showcase the Tasty Threesome. Our vice president showed us this picture at the AHM:



An entirely unrelated and highly coincidental note: our company is 95% male.
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