hodgy0_2

Phrases we love to hate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7457287.stm

I like to have a blame-storming session when the **** hits the fan

anyway 4.45 on a Friday, and it's a wrap ladies and gentlemen

Lee247

Very good

I think the people that come out with this guff, think it makes them sound cool. They actually sound like goons

njkmrs

Theres a **** in our place who cannot stop saying "give us a Heads Up" on this that the other .

We had a Consultant in for a few months and he had a stutter .This same **** ended up with a stutter copying the Consultant !!

I think most work places have one .

Lady Luck

A buzz one that went round work for ages was "thought tornado"

Oh and then there was "I'll eyeball your offering" and the best and cringiest was....

"lets put that in the fridge and snack on it later" meaning lets not talk about it now, do it later.

laughable.

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

I despise "going forward" ... just say in the future FFS

TX.

JTaylor

I used to use 'going forward' a lot and two of my branch mangers (good fellas, but cheeky *******) actually complained about it as part of their appraisal I no longer say it.

Dingdongler

I had a boss who kept saying he'd like to munch on my kebab. What did he mean??

hodgy0_2

brilliant, anyway moving on!!!!

chris270181

"Going forward can we endeavour to close the barrier at all times"

Just part of an email i had the other day

madscoob

iTrader: (3)

our mamagers went on a traing course a while back called
THE ART OF DELEGATION
now we all know it was just slang for sloping your job off to someone else
my manager is now so good at it he can slope on the move he walks past my desk there is a almost silent woosh noise and as if my magic a job appears on my desk and AT THE END OF THE DAY lol i do more then him anyway so wheres my pay restructure lol

David Lock

My mate had some business cards which he would sometimes ask to be passed discretely to one of these bollox speakers at management meetings.

It read:-




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tony de wonderful

Lots of people in offices are pure corporate aparatchiks.

But they have no idea of that.

Stealth

iTrader: (4)

The one phrase that gets my goat in the Office, and I work in IT, is the phrase "Ping me an E-mail"

F*cking ping you an E-mail??? I'll ping you in the face with an elastic band you ****!! I think the phrase you meant to use was "Send me an E-mail" a "Ping" isn't going to send an E-mail message now is it GRRRRRR

David Lock

Have you noticed that Office Speak has now crept into Job Vacancy ads with all the agencies trying to outsmart each other

Now you have to be a translator to try and understand what the job is really about.

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chris270181

Ha ha pmsl

skoobidude

"and there in lieth the tale of woe" is one I hear a lot from a guy at work.

Leslie

I always reckoned it was all rubbish which was thought up by prats trying to outdo everyone else with the next new expression.

load of **** in my view!

Les

GlesgaKiss

Exactly!

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

Yep it happens at my work as well! In our control room we used to play buzzword bingo, when the engineers or bosses were in and they said which ever stupid phrase that was in fashion that week we had to bit our lips not to laugh out loud!

hodgy0_2

that would be "throwing the spam javelin" in modern office speak then

David Lock

J Arthur speak perhaps........

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Markus

Oh, office speak, how I loath some of it. We've got quite a bit of it as we apply to agile methodology and use scrum. It does work, but when I first started I really did see it to being akin to typical management type BS wording.

Low hanging fruit and timeboxing and two phrases that really annoy me at work.

mrmadcap

The "devils in the detail" is getting used alot recently, i heard three different people use this when being interviewed on radio news programmes.

GlesgaKiss

Whatever happened to promoting synergy?

Jamz3k

I actually received a application form for a job as a Library Assistant earlier this week and it was full of Office Speak and well just completely nonsense, I ended up not bothering to fill it in.

jods

We don't talk "About" problems or issues at work - We talk "To" them!

tony de wonderful

Some of my pet favorites:

'Thinking outside the box'
'Leverage'
'Imagineer'
'Caveat'
'Roll out'
'Moving forward'
'Pow wow'
'Touch base'

hodgy0_2

haven't "problems" become "challanges"

or i prefer "solutions waiting to happen"

DJ_Jon

iTrader: (7)

Office speak, nearly as annoying as txt-spk

Leslie

I used to like Spam fritters!

Les