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The MOST irritating office jargon revealed, from 'pinging' emails to 'idea showers'
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| 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 is and cross the ts
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
Someone should forward this link to Scott Adams.
They way he uses these over done clichés in ‘Dilbert’ is perfect. Just perfect.
Coming from a cubibally based environment, I know I and my colleagues use some of these phrases. Some too many times.
But when used in ‘Dilbert’; they are perfect.
To: heterosupremacist
Critical Path
System of Systems
Task Focused
Event Driver
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:42:10 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Reset Underway!)
To: txhurl
#36 txhurl wrote: "Wouldnt it be funny if your office only allowed Mafia terms to conduct communications and meetings?" I speak fluent Mafioso but the 'Human Resources Department' would have me 'terminated'.
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:44:43 AM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Now, in today’s business/corporate environment that is populated largely by mis-educated illiterates, their usage is not at all proper.
I agree. There are legitimate phrases on that list, and there are those that have lost their meaning to a lot of the ‘mis-educated” that continues to load up the cubicles around here. I suppose it’s how some of the old guys looked at me when I came in in the early 80’s.
But it does seem worse now. It’s as though the schools want everyone to see all definitions as “squishy”, ever since Bill Clinton said, “It depends on the definition of the word, ‘is’.”
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:45:31 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: Mr. Douglas
Fair enough. haha
Sometimes, from the customer side, “scope creep” can annoy me. Usually when an assumed element of a project is not included and attempts are made to increase costs due to “scope creep”.
“What? You wanted tires on your car? Scope creep.”
I’m sure there’s a balance somewhere in the middle. :)
45
posted on
06/02/2017 6:45:31 AM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: heterosupremacist
46
posted on
06/02/2017 6:46:11 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: heterosupremacist
47
posted on
06/02/2017 6:46:34 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Responsibility2nd
My guilty phrase is ‘unring the bell’.
I’m in banking. Lending. They paid late and have a 30 day delinquency on their credit reports. They ask me how to delete that.
I tell them to build a “way back” machine. I tell them they can’t unring the bell.
I know. I need to come up with better more nicer replies.
To: Arm_Bears
You should reach out to the author and see if it can be added to the list.
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:47:01 AM PDT
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: heterosupremacist
I hate the two most overused words by journalists and politicians;
Our ‘partners’ and ‘the narrative’.
When did literacy, orginality and intellect disappear?
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:47:08 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
To: Quick Shot
I’ve been in places (not medical facilities!) where ‘STAT!’ was all the rage.
51
posted on
06/02/2017 6:47:14 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: 4Liberty
"So,..." I agree. Strongly.
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:48:58 AM PDT
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:50:00 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: ConservativeWarrior
Sometimes, from the customer side, scope creep can annoy me. Usually when an assumed element of a project is not included and attempts are made to increase costs due to scope creep.
What? You wanted tires on your car? Scope creep.
Yep. I try to avoid the words when dealing with the client, or make light of it. But your tires example points out the real problem. If I, as the Business Analyst, didn’t include tires in the initial documents, that is on me. On the other hand, if they business says, “we will be moving our offices from Palm Springs to Fargo and we’ve decided we’ll need an integrated block heater in all the engines”, that is scope creep, but also justified and will result in a change board approved change request.
Deciding late in the game that they want TV’s built into the backs of the front seat headrests will be delegated to “phase II”. In fact, to use the car analogy, that will be in next year’s model. :)
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:50:05 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: heterosupremacist
'Somebody go reach out to crack that engineer's skull, and I want the feedback broken eggs in a bowl on my desk before lunchtime, and one-a you team players punks better have me a viable solution f**ing omelette by 5p.'
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:50:55 AM PDT
by
txhurl
(Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
To: heterosupremacist
'Somebody go reach out to crack that engineer's skull, and I want the feedback broken eggs in a bowl on my desk before lunchtime, and one-a you team players punks better have me a viable solution f**ing omelette by 5p.'
57
posted on
06/02/2017 6:50:56 AM PDT
by
txhurl
(Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
To: heterosupremacist
My most hated: “Synergy”. It’s shorthand for, “One stupid bad, two stupids good. Magic makes it so.”
To: heterosupremacist
Plan your work and work your plan.
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:51:20 AM PDT
by
sevlex
To: Mr. K
My most hated phrase is when someone says or writes that they wanted to “reach out”. What happened to the simple word “contact”? I don’t want anyone I don’t know reaching out to me in any form. Phrases used by today’s office employees just irks me to no end.
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posted on
06/02/2017 6:51:27 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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