{"id":11643,"date":"2007-07-27T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/27\/gir-why-is-there-bacon-in-my-project-plan.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:16:17","slug":"gir_why_is_there_bacon_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/gir_why_is_there_bacon_in.html","title":{"rendered":"“GIR, why is there bacon in my project plan?!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, overwhelmingly amused that my company’s implementation of Oracle’s iRecruitment system on a enterprise-wide basis (Global iRecruitment) is being abbreviated internally as GIR<\/a>.  It’s going to cause me an chuckle every time I get an e-mail about it.<\/p>\n

I just hope it works better …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, overwhelmingly amused that my company’s implementation of Oracle’s iRecruitment system on a enterprise-wide basis (Global iRecruitment) is being abbreviated internally as GIR.  It’s going to cause me an chuckle every time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":876,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/06\/ive_been_publis.html","url_meta":{"origin":11643,"position":0},"title":"I’ve been published! 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