Business Jargon...
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Am I the only person on the planet who refuses to use these stupid "buzz" words people in office environments are comming out with??? I refer to things like:
- "Going Forward"
- "I have been tasked with this"
- "The figures for Q1
- "Has this been Actioned?
There are many many more... Are there any that get you? or make you cringe? :confused:
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
"Buzz word" is a buzzword phrase. :-D I much prefer "meaningless, trite, entirely made up evasions of proper English usage to mask your inexcusable ignorance" to "buzz word."
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Am I the only person on the planet who refuses to use these stupid "buzz" words people in office environments are comming out with??? I refer to things like:
- "Going Forward"
- "I have been tasked with this"
- "The figures for Q1
- "Has this been Actioned?
There are many many more... Are there any that get you? or make you cringe? :confused:
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
Paul Unsworth wrote:
"The figures for Q1
What is wrong with Q1? First quarter is a buzzword now? What's wrong with that one?!
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Am I the only person on the planet who refuses to use these stupid "buzz" words people in office environments are comming out with??? I refer to things like:
- "Going Forward"
- "I have been tasked with this"
- "The figures for Q1
- "Has this been Actioned?
There are many many more... Are there any that get you? or make you cringe? :confused:
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
After years in the corporate world, I'm now bilingual. I speak English and Gibberish. Well, okay, perhaps to my friends on the other side of the pond I should say American and Gibberish. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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At a previous workplace, the CEO was abusing the word "shift" so much ("We need to embrace the shift", "We are in the middle of the shift"), that we finally started using it in contexts such as: "We are in deep shift", "Shift happens" or "shift has hit the fan".
My shift is your shift!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Am I the only person on the planet who refuses to use these stupid "buzz" words people in office environments are comming out with??? I refer to things like:
- "Going Forward"
- "I have been tasked with this"
- "The figures for Q1
- "Has this been Actioned?
There are many many more... Are there any that get you? or make you cringe? :confused:
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
I've always found people using the term "learnings" rather jarring. As in: "So what are the learnings from our last project". or: "We had a problem with X, which is a new learning for us". "Learning" isn't a noun and I pretty sure "learnings" isn't even a word. The word you're looking for is "lessons"
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I've always found people using the term "learnings" rather jarring. As in: "So what are the learnings from our last project". or: "We had a problem with X, which is a new learning for us". "Learning" isn't a noun and I pretty sure "learnings" isn't even a word. The word you're looking for is "lessons"
Lessons has a negative effect as it evokes images of unpleasant days in school learning things by rote. Therefore, management has decided to transition to the use of the term learnings as it has no prior usage, therefore no negative baggage. We need to be proactive on this to avoid a hostile workplace environment. Didn't you get the memo about this? Doris, send him another copy, m'kay? That would be great. Flynn
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Lessons has a negative effect as it evokes images of unpleasant days in school learning things by rote. Therefore, management has decided to transition to the use of the term learnings as it has no prior usage, therefore no negative baggage. We need to be proactive on this to avoid a hostile workplace environment. Didn't you get the memo about this? Doris, send him another copy, m'kay? That would be great. Flynn
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My shift is your shift!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:
Didn't you get the memo about this? Doris, send him another copy, m'kay? That would be great.
I did get the memo, but it didn't have the correct cover sheet.
If you could just make sure to ensure your learnings about learnings stick. That'd be great. Flynn
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"Buzz word" is a buzzword phrase. :-D I much prefer "meaningless, trite, entirely made up evasions of proper English usage to mask your inexcusable ignorance" to "buzz word."
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
meaningless, trite, entirely made up evasions of proper English usage to mask your inexcusable ignorance
Now you mention it, I'm with you on that. It has a kinda ring to it. ;P
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....