System Jargon at Xamplify

Sumer Johal, Xamplify's Chief Technology Officer, liked to often remind us that attended M.I.T., a school attended by many affluent students. His background check revealed absence of significant computer programming experience in industry, even though the company listed him as an "expert" in various software areas. I saw samples of some computer code written by Sumer Johal and those were as I had expected.

Robert Burnett, the president, had written the first commercial COBOL compiler. But, that was many, many years ago. After having retired about a decade ago, he had come to Xamplify at the urging of his friend Jeffrey Klein who told him that he was "really, really needed there." Sumer Johal was his favorite employee with whom he spent lot of time discussing technical matters.

Jeffrey Klein, the CEO, didn't seem to have any technical background, but downloading technical material from the internet, meeting often with out technical-heads Sumer Johal and Sanjay Dayal, and his brilliance, made him a tech-head himself.

And then we had his protege, Julian Brookes, with his graduate degree in European Languages.

There we were. With such people at the helm, impressing potential customers with our use of jargon was so easy. At least that's what they thought apparently.