"Compensation" or "remuneration". I mean, grammatically they're correct, but what everyone means is "pay".
"What's your compensation at the moment" as opposed to "how much were you paid last year?"
People react differently to those two questions.
IME compensation and remuneration seem to be expanded to include non-cash rewards? Usually accompanied by "package" - remuneration package etc.. Whereas pay is usually just cash, no?
Probably an element of BS too.
Mainly BS, but yes.
Let me put it this way. On the rare occasion I've said "how much were you paid?" there's a bit of shock on the other side of the table. Not so when i've asked for their compensation.
"The elephant in the room", nope, never seen one, unless they meant the fat mare in the corner eating all the biscuits. Thank censored I left that all behind when I retired, 36 years was plenty enough corporate bullshit.
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I'm another hater of the incorrect inflection at the end of a sentence. The only thing I hate more is when they do it at the end of every sentence... :twisted: And it appears to be from US teen culture, but has been picked up by older generations. There was a news reporter in her mid thirties doing it on the telly the other night, my God woman, get a grip! :shock: Have these people never listened to themselves? And if they do, do they not find that they sound a bit strange?
One of my kids started doing it, so I just talked back to him in the same way to show him how stupid it made him sound. He soon stopped.
As an aside I am a remote worker, but we get oodles of head office electronic communications telling us how great everything is. One such missive (which I have now stopped even opening as I don't understand most of the sh1te they are spouting) was a regular floor plate briefing by senior management. It was usually accompanied by a picture of two or three managers, standing half way up an open plan office staircase talking down to the gathered hoards of staff stood all around the desks. WTF (sorry) is a floor plate?
Should try working in a military environment. The amount of acronyms will make your head explode.
It's one thing using acronyms when you know what they are but then you get the same ones that mean multiple things. Aargh. I can think of 5 things that ATM means. Some work related some not.
Should try working in a military environment. The amount of acronyms will make your head explode.
It's one thing using acronyms when you know what they are but then you get the same ones that mean multiple things. Aargh. I can think of 5 things that ATM means. Some work related some not.
Should try working in a military environment. The amount of acronyms will make your head explode.
It's one thing using acronyms when you know what they are but then you get the same ones that mean multiple things. Aargh. I can think of 5 things that ATM means. Some work related some not.
This times a billion.
it's all utter gobbledegook, especially when it's individual cap badge related and you're trying to explain something/have something explained to you by someone who is from a different cap badge. I tend to glaze over a lot.
And then I get home, TDV asks me something, I reply in gobbledegook as it's what I've been talking all day and she kicks me in the testicles and tells me to stop talking rubbish and use real words.
Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
We have a yellow/red card system. Any such bulls*"t gets a card shown. 'Golden thread' or 'we are where we are' are straight reds and a round of coffee for everyone.
My all time favourite is of course, "going forward", as many others have mentioned. What's wrong with "in future" or "from now on"? I'm currently lucky enough work for a company where stuff like this is almost absent, so a couple of years ago, when someone used that phrase in an email, I objected to it. She apologised! Sincerely, I think. In any event, it hasn't resurfaced since.
At a previous place of work, where such phrases were very common (I remember having to ask what "stet" meant, not having come across it previously), there was one Management drone (Director Of Very Important Things, I think her title was) who had a penchant for addressing large numbers of employees about the business plan. I think it was mainly to reassure us that there was a plan. Anyway, the thing is, she was absolutely hopeless at public speaking, having developed this verbal tic which meant she added the words "know what I mean?" to the end of almost every sentence. People used to keep score. I remember sitting at the back of one such meeting, watching every few seconds about 50 of her victims, in unison, making tick marks on little pieces of paper.
/\ My boss says "ultimately" all the time. So he'll be talk about some stuff and then he'll say "but ultimately it's about x" - and then go on to talk about some more things! It's OK to use sometimes (i.e., at the end of a discussion or when you want to highlight something) but peppering your conversations with it makes it lose its' impact somewhat.
I must admit to using moving forwards though. When I use it I don't mean quite the same thing as "from now on" and "in future" though - that means something specific and it's going to be different from now on; a clean break. However "moving" forwards" I would use in that we want to try and change something or work towards a different outcome or something, so "moving forwards we're going to work on improving the way we do X".
I think anything's annoying if overused, so perhaps it's the way people say it all the time.
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Mainly BS, but yes.
Let me put it this way. On the rare occasion I've said "how much were you paid?" there's a bit of shock on the other side of the table. Not so when i've asked for their compensation.
It's all smoke & mirrors.
" Can I borrow you for a minute "
Shame on her.
Shame on you.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
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One of my kids started doing it, so I just talked back to him in the same way to show him how stupid it made him sound. He soon stopped.
As an aside I am a remote worker, but we get oodles of head office electronic communications telling us how great everything is. One such missive (which I have now stopped even opening as I don't understand most of the sh1te they are spouting) was a regular floor plate briefing by senior management. It was usually accompanied by a picture of two or three managers, standing half way up an open plan office staircase talking down to the gathered hoards of staff stood all around the desks. WTF (sorry) is a floor plate?
PP
ABSOLUTELY
Should try working in a military environment. The amount of acronyms will make your head explode.
It's one thing using acronyms when you know what they are but then you get the same ones that mean multiple things. Aargh. I can think of 5 things that ATM means. Some work related some not.
Sounds like a symptom of asbergers.
Fairly unlikely I suspect....
And some very much NSFW.
This times a billion.
it's all utter gobbledegook, especially when it's individual cap badge related and you're trying to explain something/have something explained to you by someone who is from a different cap badge. I tend to glaze over a lot.
And then I get home, TDV asks me something, I reply in gobbledegook as it's what I've been talking all day and she kicks me in the testicles and tells me to stop talking rubbish and use real words.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
You know it's pretty easy to change banks right?
https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
That's the guide for poor people I believe.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
RBS, TSB, HSBC
More [email protected] acronyms. Baah!!
GPMG the lot ......
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
I am not sure. You have no chance.
GPMG, LSW, LMG, AGL the whole lot.
Or just hit them with a GBU-12 LD LGB
Bloke, "WTDWOW."
Poor sod, "Eh?
Bloke, "WTDWOW?" [ grins smugly ]
Poor sod, "What does that mean?"
Bloke, "Well that didn't work out well".
Poor sod, "Oh."
After about the tenth time the joke wears off. Do we know each other Rick?
Probably.
Short, bald, angry?
Never really pictured you like that Rck, but at least you're honest.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
There are enough people on here who have met me who will confirm that.
What - short, bald, angry?
Oh, don't be angry. It's ugly.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
That's the phrase that is getting right on my tits at work at the moment!
At a previous place of work, where such phrases were very common (I remember having to ask what "stet" meant, not having come across it previously), there was one Management drone (Director Of Very Important Things, I think her title was) who had a penchant for addressing large numbers of employees about the business plan. I think it was mainly to reassure us that there was a plan. Anyway, the thing is, she was absolutely hopeless at public speaking, having developed this verbal tic which meant she added the words "know what I mean?" to the end of almost every sentence. People used to keep score. I remember sitting at the back of one such meeting, watching every few seconds about 50 of her victims, in unison, making tick marks on little pieces of paper.
I must admit to using moving forwards though. When I use it I don't mean quite the same thing as "from now on" and "in future" though - that means something specific and it's going to be different from now on; a clean break. However "moving" forwards" I would use in that we want to try and change something or work towards a different outcome or something, so "moving forwards we're going to work on improving the way we do X".
I think anything's annoying if overused, so perhaps it's the way people say it all the time.