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[[File:Tron User.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A User. Doesn't {{sex|he}} look happy.]][[UAT]], or | [[File:Tron User.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A User. Doesn't {{sex|he}} look happy.]][[UAT]], or “[[user acceptance testing]]” is the process whereby an [[IT department]] experiments on its workforce the way scientists experiment on mice. It is designed to make sure new software it would like to impose on the workforce but which users do not want, understand or care about, will not be so disruptive, annoying or useless that users rise up in outright rebellion. | ||
The optimal response of [[UAT]] is ''acquiescence''. Ideally, indentured servants mutely accept the technology, ploughing meekly onward in an anaesthetised haze, the way cattle eventually accept branding or Winston Smith comes to love Big Brother. | The optimal response of [[UAT]] is ''acquiescence''. Ideally, indentured servants mutely accept the technology, ploughing meekly onward in an anaesthetised haze, the way cattle eventually accept branding or Winston Smith comes to love Big Brother. | ||
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:''[[Legal eagle]]'': Can we create our own metadata files and hierarchies? | :''[[Legal eagle]]'': Can we create our own metadata files and hierarchies? | ||
:''[[COO]]'': No. | :''[[COO]]'': No. | ||
''Later'' | ''Later'' | ||
:''Different [[Legal eagle]]'': This document management system is | :''Different [[Legal eagle]]'': This document management system is rubbish. Whose idea was this? | ||
:''[[COO]]'': Legal users. Idiots. | :''[[COO]]'': [[Legal Eagles|Legal users]]. Idiots. | ||
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*[[IT department]] | *[[IT department]] | ||
*[[Due diligence]] | *[[Due diligence]] | ||