The MOST irritating office jargon revealed, from 'pinging' emails to 'idea showers'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 06/02/2017 | Siofra Brennan

[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

[Mr. Douglas]

I think you’ve hit on the problem. It’s not the words - it is their improper use that is the problem.

It drives me nuts when people accuse others of being bigots simply because they disagree with them. Sometimes i actually post the definition of the word and then say, “which one of us is being the bigot. :-)

[notdownwidems]

“synergy”
“leverage”

[notdownwidems]

The single phrase that annoys me is “robust”, if only because it is overused. i.e. it is used where it does not really apply. It’s become a sort of marketing term

"Awesome"...as in, 'Where did you go for lunch? Burger King? Awesome'

[Trillian]

How about a real shower? They usually smell.

[Albion Wilde]

How about “not in my wheelhouse”?

Or, “marque el dos”.

[IronJack]

Also known as “bugle oil” or “watering your beard.”

[Albion Wilde]

We haven’t listed “sustainable” yet. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Then there’s “doubling down on...” Yuck, ew, yuck!

“Players” instead of “participants”

“Called on the carpet”

Worse yet, “a come to Jesus moment”

“resources” when you actually mean “employees” — hate! hate!

“silos”

“road warriors”

“expense” used as a verb — “I expensed that meal”

“monetize”

[4Liberty]

I don’t want a “relationship “ with my bank!....

[4Liberty]

Let’s look at this as different “Buckets”..... Hate it.

[aspasia]

“So there’s that.”

[aspasia]

totes?

[mikeIII]

I don’t think these are “irritating” jargon. They are over-used, certainly, but the critics here will be hard pressed to come up with concise, precise equivalents that convey the idea just as well!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

It is what it is

[Chickensoup]

“reach out”

If another twit tells me that they are going to “reach out” instead of calling, texting or communicating...I am going to rip off their twitty head!

[Chickensoup]

you can only have a paradigm shift if the “parameters” are moved.

[Cvengr]