MTBOO
n.— «MTBOO…Mean Time Between Other Offers. It is commonly held that MTBOO for software engineers is 9 months.» —“Get that Gazelle Out of My Space!” by Eliot Redmond Innovation Dec., 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Bookshop|Amazon), Oxford University scholar Katherine Rundell offers a memorable quotation about the very astonishment of being alive. This is part of a complete episode.
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