Irritating & grating phrases and words used in the work place

Just read this on Sky News. I'm sure most of you have come across some if not all them in your place of work. Any others to add?
I'll put this one in. Stated by an ex MD when I was working in newspaper publishing.
"We're on a critical path"
What the f**k had infected his brain I've no idea as we were discussing new methods of reporting budgets and revenue forecasts.
And I really hate the word synergy.
I'll put this one in. Stated by an ex MD when I was working in newspaper publishing.
"We're on a critical path"
What the f**k had infected his brain I've no idea as we were discussing new methods of reporting budgets and revenue forecasts.
And I really hate the word synergy.
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Being in construction management, the above are continually thrown about.
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Copied and pasted.
The project is still fupped up and changes "kicked down the road". Never mind, there was cake.
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Sets my teeth on edge.
People saying "Pacific" not "specific"
It's just a hill. Get over it.
operationalize
optics
could care less
reaching out
stepping up
skin in the game
rightsize
less - when it should be fewer
agile
resources
loop back
pre-plan - this just makes me want to stab whoever says it in the face
i could continue, but i need to go and reranch the optimess
Controlled chaos
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Well, it's a good word when you're talking about synergy (or "the productive use of differences') but then you need to believe that's important.
My personal dislike is for the Japanese jargon that comes with "Lean" and the like. We've called "Lean" lean (an English word) - why can't we think of English words for all the other stuff?
"touch base" instead of "let me know how it goes" or "catch up next week".
FT's Guffipedia is always good, this recently:
To pulse
• Translation into English: To contact
• Perpetrator: Anonymous US corporation
• Usage example: “We are pulsing management for availability and hope to be in touch with dates/times ASAP.”
• Lucy’s commentary: A pulse is a noun. If you have one you are alive. When pulse becomes a verb, and a transitive verb at that, the perpetrator may be alive, but their brains have already gone.
Stuff like that.
'Lean ... a business concept that can't stand up on it's own' ... usually puts an end to any more mention of it for a while (or at least on your earshot) …
"End of play"
Lean stands up on its own provided people don't start mutilating it and using all the terminology all the time for no good reason (OK so that happens pretty much all the time) - it's just not the be all and end all.
People seem to forget that a business focussed on really efficient processes (which is what lean is mainly about, reducing waste) doesn't have a long term* competitive advantage because it is not at all unique and can't really be protected from competition (because anyone can chase efficiency).
*I was going to say sustainable but I thought better of it given the thread title...
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Normally said by clueless senior managers / directors...
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Anyone played buzzword bingo? Passes very quickly with US colleagues.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
I am not sure. You have no chance.
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Commuter
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
We have a joint head office where the dictums come from. One is in London.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
But I am doing an MBA which has turned out to be moderately useful in identifying when the buzzwords actually have some meaning and when it's just someone bullsh1tting.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
"so they're handling x, but from the y and z perspective".
Can't stop myself.
I make lots of friends in the office correcting their 'going forward'.
I have a boss that has turned diary into a verb; "diarise" - does my nut in. "My PA will diarise that". Horrendous.
Also one of the guys has a verbal tic; keeps saying 'oblique' all the time. "So, let me understand, the responsibilities are to manage the P&L of the retail business, oblique he'll also run the HR piece'.
What's wrong with and or as well as?
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I don't think he did it. As far as I'm aware, it's been a verb all of my life. It's an ugly word. But my iPad links to the Oxford English Dictionary
I was thinking more this. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=diarise