There has been threads on these before and I thought I would add one that made my skin crawl after a conference call led by a project manager who is leading.
Does anyone have anything they would like to bubble to the surface.
That was brutal.
I start my 10 day vacation tonight so perhaps I'm just being cynical.
"How are you"
Drives me insane.
Buzz words made my skin crawl too.
Let's socialize that idea.
Ping me.
Education has plenty too :)
*meaning
Low Hanging fruit
Mission critical
I could go for an hour. Drives me crazy.
I had a manager once who turned the word matrix into a verb.
He said we had to matrix things down. I looked at my friend. He looked at me and we were not like WTF does that mean
Let’s circle back.
And please, don't forget the new cover sheet on the TPM reports.
Oh. You were flying blind for 30 years? Glad you finally got some damn direction.
didn't know it was around that long, but I only heard it with in the last 8 to 10 years and it still sucks.
Some of those posted ones just sound like bad English.
Oh. You were flying blind for 30 years? Glad you finally got some damn direction.
LMAO
I remember when it was called "research."
Haha, perfect. I love the "hard stop". I sometimes feel compelled to lie about having a hard stop at 3 or whenever, bc everyone else has a hard stop and they might wonder why I don't
And while we're on "the workplace," anyone else work with someone who refuses to shit at work? How exactly is that done? I have to shit, I have to shit. That's that.
+1
Every conference call ever
"Come on people it's not like we're trying to turn around the Queen Mary here"
"this isn't a boil the ocean project"
"you can't put 9 women in a room and get a baby in a month"
right now our biggest overused/wrongly used phrase is Design Thinking. It's a good tool, but it's gets thrown in to or suggested for conversations and topics when it has no application.
"Come on people it's not like we're trying to turn around the Queen Mary here"
"this isn't a boil the ocean project"
"you can't put 9 women in a room and get a baby in a month"
right now our biggest overused/wrongly used phrase is Design Thinking. It's a good tool, but it's gets thrown in to or suggested for conversations and topics when it has no application.
classic. I've noticed multiple execs feel compelled to preface things by saying "this is an art and a science", as if that helps us understand it better.
Beautiful.
also makes me think of how unbearable life must have been when people actually took this same faux pride in their every day vocab. yikes.
yes wfh is just entirely too difficult to spell out.
let's not boil the ocean
"How are you"
Drives me insane.
It's funny, "how are you?" is used as a salutation with no response required.
I make sure when some says "how are you?" I respond with an actual answer!
Quote:
"Good morning"
"How are you"
Drives me insane.
It's funny, "how are you?" is used as a salutation with no response required.
I make sure when some says "how are you?" I respond with an actual answer!
I confess, a growing pet peeve of mine is the obnoxiously canned "living the dream!" reply some give when asked how they are
Does their contract include evergreen language? (Another metaphor from nature.)