noun
leg· a· cy in· ter· ac· tion \ ˈle-gə-sē, in-tər-ˈak-shən
(1 of 2) A vague non-description to update tickets with to make it look like you're doing work while simultaneously making managers think you know what you're talking about, all the while without addressing any issues causing the system to go down or actually letting anyone reading your tickets understand what you're talking about.
(2 of 2) A pretentious way of saying outdated software interaction.
See also: worthless, vague, unproductive, unusable, insignificant, meaningless, mediocre
Not to be confused with:
Interaction:
mutual or reciprocal action or influence
Legacy:
1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : BEQUEST
She left us a legacy of a million dollars.
2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
the legacy of the ancient philosophers
The war left a legacy of pain and suffering.
3 : a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member
4 : of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system
transfer the legacy data
a legacy system
5 : of, relating to, associated with, or carried over from an earlier time, technology, business, etc.
leg· a· cy in· ter· ac· tion \ ˈle-gə-sē, in-tər-ˈak-shən
(1 of 2) A vague non-description to update tickets with to make it look like you're doing work while simultaneously making managers think you know what you're talking about, all the while without addressing any issues causing the system to go down or actually letting anyone reading your tickets understand what you're talking about.
(2 of 2) A pretentious way of saying outdated software interaction.
See also: worthless, vague, unproductive, unusable, insignificant, meaningless, mediocre
Not to be confused with:
Interaction:
mutual or reciprocal action or influence
Legacy:
1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : BEQUEST
She left us a legacy of a million dollars.
2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
the legacy of the ancient philosophers
The war left a legacy of pain and suffering.
3 : a candidate for membership in an organization (such as a school or fraternal order) who is given special status because of a familial relationship to a member
4 : of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system
transfer the legacy data
a legacy system
5 : of, relating to, associated with, or carried over from an earlier time, technology, business, etc.
The cause of this outage was due to a legacy interaction between the server thingie-ma-bob and the Email data-ma-bob.
by Dumbsonnumb January 23, 2019