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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

Obama favorite “Let me be clear”.


81 posted on 06/02/2017 7:15:10 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: Sequoyah101

See my post 70 about business partners.


82 posted on 06/02/2017 7:15:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: heterosupremacist

“At the end of the day....”

“It is what it is”

“In terms of.....”

Usage - “In terms of the end of the day, it is what it is...”

And, of course, it is


83 posted on 06/02/2017 7:19:29 AM PDT by LakeEffectLad (The bags separated by 90 feet - one of man`s greatest ideas.......)
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To: OLDCU
“Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water”.

Said as the speaker hands you a dirty bath-water slushie to drink with no "baby" in sight.

84 posted on 06/02/2017 7:23:46 AM PDT by thulldud
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To: Red Badger

Proactive! Synergy!


85 posted on 06/02/2017 7:26:11 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Me too. What is wrong with the more concise and direct “I will call him” or “I will email him?” “Reach out” is so beta and 1970s encounter group touchy-feely.


86 posted on 06/02/2017 7:32:53 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: heterosupremacist

39. Kick a project into the long grass

40. Joined up thinking

41. Pick up and run with it

42. Streamline

43. Close of play

44. To take an idea or project ‘off piste’

45. Level playing field

46. Quick win

47. In the driving seat

48. No brainer

49. To ‘park’ a project

50. ASAP


87 posted on 06/02/2017 7:33:36 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: heterosupremacist

Secret sauce


88 posted on 06/02/2017 7:34:07 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: heterosupremacist

DEEP DIVE


89 posted on 06/02/2017 7:36:55 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: txhurl

Weez gonna have a sit down.


90 posted on 06/02/2017 7:40:25 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Sfl....


91 posted on 06/02/2017 7:45:38 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: LakeEffectLad
“It is what it is”

That is a term that should annoy me, but doesn't. Maybe because it makes a kind of sense. I use it occasionally.

92 posted on 06/02/2017 7:46:05 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: heterosupremacist

Perhaps we should socialize this list with the stakeholders of the affected workflows. Then we could circle back.


93 posted on 06/02/2017 7:49:47 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: Skooz

Agree - the phrase is logically correct.
What ever “it” is - that’s what “it” is.
(True at any time of the day - including at the end of the day.)

And, because “it” is - it is probably a “deliverable”.

Nice “dialoging” with you and thanks for reaching out.


94 posted on 06/02/2017 7:57:59 AM PDT by LakeEffectLad (The bags separated by 90 feet - one of man`s greatest ideas.......)
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To: heterosupremacist

Geez, I think 50% of my boss’s vocabulary is made of this list.


95 posted on 06/02/2017 8:06:48 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: LakeEffectLad

The phrase is nothing but a tautology, no different than saying “one equals one.” Of course it does, but saying so contributes nothing to the discourse. It’s just a bunch of empty words, what my uncle used to call “moustache wash.”


96 posted on 06/02/2017 8:28:32 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: heterosupremacist

I recognize a majority of these phrases from the days of “Zero Defects” and “Total Quality Management (TQM)” from my days in the Aerospace bidnez.


97 posted on 06/02/2017 8:53:30 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Have a couple of people here at the office who (when sending emails to multiple people) refer to us as “Team”. Pisses me off every time!!!


98 posted on 06/02/2017 8:59:01 AM PDT by Married with Children (At)
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To: heterosupremacist

When I had to deal with Navy on a project the civilian engineers would “pull a thread” which meant they were going to waste an hour or more of our time arguing about something tangential to the main topic.


99 posted on 06/02/2017 8:59:43 AM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us)
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To: mikeus_maximus

Going Live, Beta Test, etc.


100 posted on 06/02/2017 9:01:24 AM PDT by Married with Children (At)
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