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Author: tantan on February 20 2008

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--> Mild irritation of the day.

Why do dumbshit corporate people say "lets talk offline" instead of "lets talk later"?

Why do dumbshit corporate people say "legacy products" instead of "old products"?

Why do dumbshit corporate people say "I'm out of cycles" instead of "I'm out of time"?

What is some of your favorite / most hated corp-speak?

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02/20/08 + Otterfan

I've never heard "I'm out of cycles". It sounds like menopause.

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02/20/08 + Otterfan

BTW, I leveraged my keyboard to type that.

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02/20/08 + tantan

did your fingers achieve synergy with your keyboard?

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02/20/08 + Otterfan

Fingers, hands, keyboard, internet: an integrated solution.

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02/20/08 + Fredo

hahahahhah, you are all so funny!

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02/20/08 + tantan

This is enterprise-wide humor.

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02/20/08 + mixedtape

RE: Corporate Irritations
I'll compile a list of several irritations and send comps to you by EOD.

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02/20/08 + Bantam

'Lets run it up the flag pole and see who salutes.'

I chuckled when an old boss said that.

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02/20/08 + skab

negatives gains.

one of my students came out with that in class the other day. his company has just announced a $20bn loss.
Also anything with "solutions" on the end: link

and finally people who use the words "facilitate" or "doable" need to have the taste buds pulled one by one of their tongues with tweezers.

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edited: Feb 20 2008 + DongleKong

Moving forward

Fire the first shot across the bow

Absolutely! (although this one isn't exclusively corporatese, I still find it loathsome)

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02/20/08 + ignatius

classic.

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02/20/08 + mechp

If you refer to a boring, 3-hour meeting in which you are going to blather endlessly about your pet project that no one cares about and you call it a pow wow, fully expect me to bring a bow and arrows, Mr. Living Target.

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02/20/08 + Roshi

Short answer:

It's synergistic.

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02/21/08 + jogn

"we need a solution"

i.e. you come up with the solution, and i'll take the credit

we, we, we

i wanna pee on you.

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02/21/08 + atum

were cutting back, aka "youre fired and never meant anything to us"

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