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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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cbit
mixedtape said: " cbit said: "lol yeah, its almost the lawyers 'have you stopped beating your wife' trick! (reply by making a gurgling noise)"
this kind of gurgling sound?"
that'd do it lol!
02/21/08
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tantan
lol joebacca
I love that everyone else spits fire at this crap just like I do 
02/21/08
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bbwax
wow. makes working in academia seem almost too easy.
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cmeif
My favorite:
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
I work in corporate healthcare. Other misappropriations that drive me nuts:
Issue = problem
Endorse= pass the buck to the next shift.
Problems= opportunities/challenges
And my other favorite is when we have a meeting to talk about when we are going to have all the other meetings.
People wonder why the work isnt getting done.
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cmeif
Also in general how people can't come out and say the truth and must spin a long story for 45 minutes dancing all around the problem at hand.
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mixedtape
cmeif said: "My favorite:
And my other favorite is when we have a meeting to talk about when we are going to have all the other meetings.
People wonder why the work isnt getting done."
that is disgusting.
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jogn
oh how about this one ....
"Please finish this big ball of wax and revert back to me for further instruction"
ptah ..... i don't want to revert anything ... goddammit .... speak ingrish.
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RogerRoger
What's that old definition? Meeting: Where the minutes are saved and hours are lost.
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lowlifi
my new favorite, fresh out of the corporate meeting "lets go after some of the low hanging fruit, and see what we can accomplish".
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tantan
I love / hate any and all borrowings of war and / or sports terminology.
"Lets knock it out of the park."
"That's one for the win column" (ARGH)
"Carry / Drop / Pass the ball"
"Go in for the kill" (ARGH)
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tantan
jogn - "revert back to me"? Hm. Well, if we're going to start deconstructing grammar in business-speak, then we have to start with "verbed nouns":
impacting
productizing (WTF)
actioning
accessing
it goes on...
As Calvin classically said, verbing weirds language.
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tantan
"low-hanging-fruit" has always made dirty. I don't want anyone at work plucking my low-hanging-fruit!
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tantan
lolz "made dirty"
"made me feel dirty" obviously
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license
my low hanging fruit makes dirty fairly often.
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mixedtape
license said: "my low hanging fruit makes dirty fairly often."
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