{"id":31503,"date":"2006-04-17T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/17\/merchandise-your-food-with-pride\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T10:00:15","slug":"merchandise-your-food-with-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060417-15\/?p=31503","title":{"rendered":"Merchandise your food with pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new placard in our cafeteria which reads “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s the first time I’ve seen the word “merchandise” used as a verb. <\/p>\n

Here, I’ll translate that last paragraph into management speak for you: <\/p>\n

The cafeteria newly signed a placard whose read is “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s my first see of a verbed “merchandise”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier this year, I was chatting with a Boeing employee who mentioned that he “had to status an action item”. I have yet to see the word “status” used as a verb at Microsoft, but it’s only a matter of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new placard in our cafeteria which reads “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s the first time I’ve seen the word “merchandise” used as a verb. Here, I’ll translate that last paragraph into management speak for you: The cafeteria newly signed a placard whose read is “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-31503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

There is a new placard in our cafeteria which reads “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s the first time I’ve seen the word “merchandise” used as a verb. Here, I’ll translate that last paragraph into management speak for you: The cafeteria newly signed a placard whose read is “Merchandise your food with pride”. That’s my […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}