Posted on 05/04/2023 5:30:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
In that space
granular
lean in
up speak
flight risk
“Circle back to us on that” was the one I hated the most. Another one over-used was “informational silos”. In the year prior to my retirement, I used to count the number of “politically correct” phrases included in each memo I received.
Another thing that irritated me was that the make-up of each committee had to have a certain number of “diverse” members. It mattered not as to whether they had any knowledge or experience on the subject matter in question, only that they checked a [ ] that needed to be filled.
Also for hiring decisions, I had to complete a form that indicated how many men, women, and “its” were considered, along with how many Caucasian, African-Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Indians, etc, and then how many in each category were actually interviewed, and finally the “diversity” of the candidate ultimately chosen.
At the bottom of the form there was a footer reminding me it was illegal to discriminate based upon race, religion, color etc.
I hated those forms and was happy to exist the building on my final day.
LOL!
97 posts before we got to that one, which should have been in the original article near the top.
I thought that that one sank 4 years ago!
“if there is a REAL problem character in the office, they have ninja-like skills for dispatching that character as cleanly as a Clinton associate’s suicide.”
I kinda saw the opposite, with most of the ees members of SEIU in the city where I worked. They were protected. Decent people were dispatched. HR and the union thugs had a cozy relationship.
But I don’t have to think about that any more. It was amusing to run in to people who believed HR was there to help and protect the ees.
Never heard that one until that idiot press secretary used it.
"Thank you for your time"
Always seemed silly at inter-departmental meetings.
Thanks for the ping! Agree with posts above that said this list is dated to the 90s. Most of it was “spot on”—even the items that were “early on”, “as well”—grrrr, Brit speak.
Today’s most grating jargon is the commie spew coming out of DEI and ESG in the corporate world, and also ESL in the schools. Acronymization has crept out from engineering like kudzu, smothering clear communications everywhere.
Some fields still have shop-talk particular to their craft. I get a laugh when the print production people talk about “booger glue.”
I did think the OP’s definition of thought leadership was inaccurate—it is a real form of strategic development, not advice about how to “optimize your user interface on the granular metric.”
“we’re all family here”
Too busy perfecting my ability to sleep with my eyes open during meetings, seminars, training sessions, workshops,.......
I’m sooooo happy I’m retired.
I hate “Reach out” So creepy. Like a pathetic loser reaching out for mercy.
“drill down”
“resource suck”
Burn rate.
Sorry for the short fuse.
51. Decision as a verb. “We need to schedule another meeting to go over our decisioning processEEZ to opportunize our efficiencies.
Too funny!
Most meetings drive my husband crazy because they go down so many rabbit holes and what takes an hour or two could be summed up in a paragraph sent by email. Corporate said that no one reads emails, lol.
I get tired of hearing sports announcers/commentators saying “to your point…”. I was watching a baseball game the other day and they must have said it 20 times.
Never heard that one, but it makes sense. I was at an outdoor event and I bought some "food" from a vendor, and couldn't ingest more than one bite. There was a stray cat hanging around so I put the "food" down on the ground. The cat sniffed it, and ran away.
But there *is* ME
I hate Gerunding...................
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