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Post by whyohwhy on Jun 19, 2006 14:28:45 GMT
In my current employment, buzz words/phrases are the order of the day, such as: - Lets touch base
- Going forward
- Roll it forward
- Thrash out the issues
- Flesh things out
- Ballpark figures
- Do a memo
- Bottom line
- Think outside the box
- Client focus
Anyone got anymore? |
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Post by timofte on Jun 19, 2006 14:37:24 GMT
In my current employment, buzz words/phrases are the order of the day, such as: - Lets touch base
- Going forward
- Roll it forward
- Thrash out the issues
- Flesh things out
- Ballpark figures
- Do a memo
- Bottom line
- Think outside the box
- Client focus
Anyone got anymore? "Lets not reinvent the wheel" "Lets bottom out on that one" Theres plenty more but heres just two that quickly come to mind |
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 19, 2006 15:59:50 GMT
"We need to get our ducks lined up in a row"
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 19, 2006 16:08:12 GMT
"I'll be in touch"
"Let's do lunch"
"Can we hook up at some stage"
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 19, 2006 16:40:25 GMT
"The system has taken some time to bed down"
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Post by iamthelaw on Jun 20, 2006 0:03:16 GMT
from Shager's post a few weeks back, "to keep you in the loop" "Lets bottom out on that one" Haven't come across that one before; what does it mean? (If any of these phrases mean anything) |
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 20, 2006 7:05:20 GMT
It means "I need to take a dump"
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Post by bandage on Jun 20, 2006 8:12:58 GMT
Let's 'piggyback' on the work done already/last year etc.
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 20, 2006 9:11:07 GMT
Just heard a manager spouting this one, he managed to get two buzz words/phrases in:
"Just give them a call so they get the heads up, and can turn it around relatively quickly"
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Post by humbug on Jun 20, 2006 12:22:18 GMT
Have you any capacity at the moment?
Let's put all that data into the sausage-maker and see what we come up with.
Forward planning. As opposed to backward planning.
Singing off the same hymn sheet. Even though most hymns would be contained in a hymn book.
We seemed to be playing telephone tennis there...ho ho ha ha hee hee.
Or how often do you see the following in letters...
"I am writing to you in connection with the above matter". You don't say!
"Please DO NOT HESITATE to contact me if you have any queries".
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Post by stickywithoutjam on Jun 20, 2006 12:25:53 GMT
"Leverage off prior work"- in much the same sense as piggybacking- My particular favourite is "see if you can leverage off last years piggyback"  |
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Post by whyohwhy on Jun 20, 2006 12:32:56 GMT
We seemed to be playing telephone tennis there...ho ho ha ha hee hee. Telephone tag (variation on the above) |
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Post by bandage on Jun 20, 2006 12:35:30 GMT
"Please DO NOT HESITATE to contact me if you have any queries". Just used that one before lunch. The fooking shame.  |
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 21, 2006 13:08:38 GMT
He's looking at the glass celing
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Post by stickywithoutjam on Jun 21, 2006 14:13:22 GMT
Cruisin' for a bruisin'
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Post by cully on Jun 21, 2006 18:15:47 GMT
actually used one today myself, the client had made some late changes to a particular thing i was working on, so i actually said out load that he was ' moving the goalposts'
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Post by iamthelaw on Jun 22, 2006 18:17:08 GMT
Was on what would have been an excruciating conference call with a group of Americans today except that instead of listening to their points I just jotted down their annoying phrases to report here:
"let's talk about a path forward"
"you and I should connect [meaning "talk" - so why not say "talk"] later on"
"building and improving relationships"
"high-level discussion"
"the path we've mapped out"
"we got an excellent resource [meaning a new staff-member]"
And they seemed particularly fond of the word "roll", which was used in all the following phrases in a 10-minute conversation:
"let's roll off that task and on to the next"
"roll out information"
"i'll roll my dates back on that"
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Post by humbug on Jun 24, 2006 19:18:05 GMT
"you and I should connect [meaning "talk" - so why not say "talk"] later on"
someone said this in an email to me yesterday...nearly got moby dick all over my keyboard.
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Post by humbug on Jun 24, 2006 19:42:11 GMT
in the pipeline
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Post by whyohwhy on Jun 26, 2006 9:17:50 GMT
'Can we (as in you) do a memo on that'
'Are there any bells and whistles attached?'
'We don't want to disconnect over it'
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Post by bandage on Jun 26, 2006 9:27:59 GMT
Met the head man in work in the kitchen just there. I’m relatively new here so he asked me how I was getting on so far. I said grand and waffled on for a little bit on what I was doing and he goes, ‘Excellent – well my door’s always open so keep communication lines open and keep me in the loop because I want to get some traction from you.’ Anyone any ideas what the fook he meant? He definitely didn’t say ‘interaction’ – should I have told him I wasn’t looking for a relationship right now?
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 26, 2006 12:50:25 GMT
I used this one with a client who kept fookin up: "We dont want to end up with our d!ck in our hand"
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Post by steamboatsam on Jun 26, 2006 15:48:05 GMT
Met the head man in work in the kitchen just there. I’m relatively new here so he asked me how I was getting on so far. I said grand and waffled on for a little bit on what I was doing and he goes, ‘Excellent – well my door’s always open so keep communication lines open and keep me in the loop because I want to get some traction from you.’ Anyone any ideas what the fook he meant? He definitely didn’t say ‘interaction’ – should I have told him I wasn’t looking for a relationship right now? sounds like he was talking about his back door and he wants a good stuffing from the new kid |
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Post by bandage on Jun 26, 2006 16:06:47 GMT
Just got an email asking me to 'touch base before close of business' - I plan on going to watch the footie to be honest.
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Post by Ball Ox on Jun 28, 2006 12:53:25 GMT
take ownership of the job
take his comments on board
take your micky out and slap it around
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