Replies to post #239199 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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that wasn't the sentence,

what is being smooshed together is IMO:

"hammer people with portable skills into submission"

and

"It's reached almost a kind of Joke status within Wave right now.. booking odds on the first harassment case in HR."

Given that his last job was as the Harassment Czar, and given that the above sentence references (coincidentally I am sure) harassment, one could (among the many interpretations) suppose that cypher was indicating that within Wave the hiring was a done deal (as that was the topic of the post, the question being responded to) and as an indicator that such hiring was a fait acompli, folks were doing water cooler funnys in reference to his latest professional capacity as Harassment Czar (officially "Director Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office").

Or one could read it as you did that within Wave the hiring of Patton is considered a joke (but that makes the whole reference to harassment and HR entirely out of place in the sentence).

Or one could interpret it to mean that he is a predatory person (pretty bold).

Or one could interpret it to mean good luck to the next one who dares make an HR complaint, in keeping with the accusations regarding silencing whistle-blowers (a distinct possibility).

And so on.

As it pertains to what I was responding to, alea cited a well-connected cypher to support conjecture regarding style, and the above was the only comment i could find from cypher that even remotely related to style, and in the context of the statements by all parties I am unable to interpret ...

"It's reached almost a kind of Joke status within Wave right now.. booking odds on the first harassment case in HR." (provided as a supporting statement regarding the likelihood of a hire)

...with regards to alea's notions regarding suitability to the position.