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The MOST irritating office jargon revealed, from 'pinging' emails to 'idea showers'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 06/02/2017 | Siofra Brennan

Posted on 06/02/2017 6:16:54 AM PDT by heterosupremacist

1. Blue-sky thinking

2. Idea shower

3. To ‘action’ a project

4. Going forward

5. Brainstorm

6. Getting the ball rolling

7. Drill down

8. Out of the loop

9. Thinking outside the box

10. Touch base

11. Singing from the same hymn-sheet

12. Circle back

13. Strategic fit

14. Bottom line

15. Low hanging fruit

16. Win-win

17. Play hardball

18. Best practice

19. On my radar

20. Bench mark

21. Value added

22. To run an idea up the flagpole

23. Results driven

24. Revert

25. Game-plan .

26. Hit the ground running

27. Customer centric

28. No ‘i’ in team

29. Back to the drawing-board

30. Re-inventing the wheel

31. Dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s

32. Action plan

33. Bells and whistles

34. Moving the goalposts

35. Back of the net

36. On the same page

37. Open door policy

38. To ‘ping’ an email

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To: heterosupremacist

All of you Freepers are invited to further discuss these terms down the hall here in our new “Collaboration Room”.


101 posted on 06/02/2017 9:09:47 AM PDT by Married with Children (At)
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To: LakeEffectLad

The favorite phrases of a director I worked for are “at the end of the day” and “it is what it is”. He loves to combine them into the super cliché: “at the end of the day it is what it is.”


102 posted on 06/02/2017 9:10:50 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us)
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To: heterosupremacist

This guy uses all the jargon.

“There is a new spirit running through the Democratic Party,”Mr. Ellison said. “We’re coming out strong. We’re knocking every door. We’re a ‘coast to coast and everyone in between’ party. We’re involved in all these things. Where as before we might have been too focused on the presidential every four years, now we fight these things every single day and everywhere so that is a new way of moving forward and it’s winning politics.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3557410/posts


103 posted on 06/02/2017 9:18:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: heterosupremacist

-wrap my head around it

-get in front of

-push to conclusion

gag, I work with people who do nothing but go to meetings
and talk this crap, I call it buzz word bingo


104 posted on 06/02/2017 9:19:25 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: heterosupremacist

This is what MBAs invent to make it look lime they do something important.

Now of you’ll excuse me I ha e to go through my action item list while I shift my paradigms.


105 posted on 06/02/2017 9:20:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: heterosupremacist

I would love an odea shower with some Russian prostitutes. Best in the world I hear.


106 posted on 06/02/2017 9:25:53 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Organic Panic

This is all to inside baseball for me.......


107 posted on 06/02/2017 9:26:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Responsibility2nd

“You can’t unbake a cake”!


108 posted on 06/02/2017 9:50:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: Married with Children

Right next to the “War Room” no doubt.

If you are not in the military, you are not really at war and have no “war” room.


109 posted on 06/02/2017 10:31:12 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Flying Circus

It could be worse, “at the end of the day, the existential metrics are it is what it is”


110 posted on 06/02/2017 11:18:29 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Mr. Douglas

how about “holistic”

holistic approach


111 posted on 06/02/2017 11:20:24 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: mrs. a

I am a Spof. I do not like it. It makes vacations very hard.

If I am not on top of every little thing, then something fails.


112 posted on 06/02/2017 11:28:58 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

I use “holistic” a lot, actually.


113 posted on 06/02/2017 11:38:51 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Cecily

#109

“Cecily wrote:

Right next to the “War Room” no doubt.

If you are not in the military, you are not really at war and have no “war” room.”

Yes! I once worked for a global ‘Big Pharma’ and the War Room hand a fancy bronze plaque mounted on the door
that warned us lesser employees not to enter.

A little pretentious, don’t you agree?


114 posted on 06/02/2017 11:39:52 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: IronJack

“moustache wash”
Sorry, I’ve got to steal that one from your uncle.
“Bumping your gums” has been over used in my particular situation.


115 posted on 06/02/2017 11:43:46 AM PDT by LakeEffectLad (The bags separated by 90 feet - one of man`s greatest ideas.......)
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To: Big Red Clay

When I worked in an office, that was the phrase I hated the most. “At the end of the day.” Hated it, maybe because of who was overusing it.

Many of these phrases were originally clever. Taken from sports, etc. meant to convey something clearer, and it often works.

The worst problem is that they get overused by usually low imagination boring bosses.


116 posted on 06/02/2017 11:47:15 AM PDT by Yaelle (#IStandWithHannity)
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To: heterosupremacist

Yes. I hope the employees at your old company who entered the “War Room” were always careful to wear their helmets and Kevlar vests, and carry their M-16s and other battle gear.


117 posted on 06/02/2017 11:55:44 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: heterosupremacist

Before every staff meeting I printed a copy of my “Wonk Word Bingo” game. Every time someone spit out one of those annoying phrases and it was in one of the boxes I’d X out that box. It was interesting to see how long it would take to hit a bingo. I was in H.R. so it didn’t take too long.


118 posted on 06/02/2017 11:57:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Can’t stand it. Same reason as the others. When words are used without applying the purpose of them.

(Many) People who say “holistic approach” have no intention of being truly holistic about their approach.


119 posted on 06/02/2017 11:58:33 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Flying Circus

I’ve heard that combo as well. If it were the start of the day would it NOT still be what it is?

Tardy reply, sorry -

“So”, I’ve been busy “dialoging” and having important “conversations” on the necessity to “shift the paradigm”, create more “holistic” responses and “synergistic partnerships” “in terms of” my “resource providers” such that “a “solutions-oriented” outcome can be shared with “key stakeholders”.

In Friday lingo - get sh*t squared away....like I do everyday....


120 posted on 06/02/2017 12:01:40 PM PDT by LakeEffectLad (The bags separated by 90 feet - one of man`s greatest ideas.......)
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