Today is Turkey Day at the Compound. This is the day when everyone in the compound leaves their desks and congregates in the Yota Café for free turkey dinner. I think Yota Chef secretly hates Turkey Day because it is catered. The people that work in the Café serve us but Chef just stands in the corner with an I poisoned the sweet potatoes look on his face.

I am realizing that I'm not the only one that has realized Double D is an idiot. This morning I had the random conversation with someone I didn't know on an elevator.

Me: Good Morning

Random Elevator guy or REG: Hi how's it going?

Me: >complacent nod<

REG: You work in Shera's group don't you? (Shera is the name I'm going to give Double D's boss because she is awesome)

Me: Yeah, Serv/Export

REG: Man I wonder how much money they spend on flying her in every week.

Me: Yeah, I know I'd trade my salary for her travel budget in a heart beat.

REG: But I guess she comes in so often because D isn't a very strong manager.

At first I think man this guy is intuitive. then I wonder if he's a mole or something, then I decide to just say.

Me: Yeah, he's not exactly capable.

REG laughs which eases my fear that he's a mole.

Later in the morning…

D: Fran there's a bunch of stuff from you in the approval loop, come to my desk for a little pow wow, I want to hear how things are coming along.

I hate D's lingo, it's littered with cheesy business cliché catch phrases like "kudos", and "Pow Wow", and now he's started to incorporate a lot of Japanese buzz words and "Toy-lingo" Kaizan, pokayoke, Genchi Genbutsu, yoketon.

The problem I have with D using "Toy-lingo", other then this Tuck-fied accent, is he's so eager to use these words he often uses them incorrectly. Which in my opinion, adds the ass to Jack!

So D and me "pow wow" and then he says to me.

D: We are the lead on this project we should be making changes and kaizaning the process to fit our needs not theirs

Okay, there have been 3 meetings D and I have attended on this particular project none of which we have called, chaired, or even dominated, we were not the party requesting actions and information, in-fact it was just the opposite.

How that hell does that make us lead!

And my changes (Kaizans, I don't use toy-lingo unless I have to) are in everyones best interest except maybe me!

Me: We are lead? D I have been working on this project for over a month and not once have you ever mentioned that we are lead, nor have we acted as though we are lead.

By now one of my co-workers can hear some of the adjutation in my voice and says

Co-worker: D she's right we aren't lead because they are re-vamping a "hansei" they started years ago but never finished, but because of multiple "pokayokes" over the last few months Fran has been brought in on a "Genchi Genbutsu" effort to once and for all "kaizan" this activity.

D: O ok well, I will process those approvals for you this afternoon.

Me: Thanks D

Now that's how you throw around the Toy-lingo.