HP people I have known
One observation I will make is that non-engineer HP people I have known have all had a tendency to express themselves in somewhat cloudy and indefinite language - as if hoping that anything they say won't come back to bite them later.
Business-speak isn't perhaps intended to be understood by outsiders, but I feel some of it isn't perhaps intended to be understood too clearly by insiders either.
This becomes a problem, of course, when anything remotely contentious happens and it turns out everybody was out watching tea leaves or counting yarrow stalks (and yes, one of those HP people did have a "dreamcatcher" in the office.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
