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Which phrases (that business-type people use) annoy you the most?

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Martin

Lifer
One of mine would have to be "touch base", as in "I want to touch base with you".

I hate that for some reason..
 
Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
One of mine would have to be "touch base", as in "I want to touch base with you".

I hate that for some reason..
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What about "eliminate redundant job descriptions"?

It's often used when they open up another design center in a third world country that everyone knows was built to replace them, then a few months later they suddenly "discover" that there are multiple people doing the same job. At that point they "eliminate redundant job descriptions".

 
The current fad in my company is to call things "Practices". That along with the whole "team" thing, "skill sets" etc just tests my suit tolerence level. Whenever I hear babble about "teams" I want to dig out the round table scene from The Untouchables and play it. :evil:
 
"Let's take this offline."

No, you stoopid measly, mid-level mgmt, b@stard excuse of human flesh. We're going to settle this now, ya panty-waisted silk buttercup!


/me fuming because he has to work extra hours each day this week to make up for not getting holiday pay yesterday.
 
Touch base
"What is your bandwidth today?"
"I need to you own this process"
"How much do you have on your plate?"
 
the overuse of the word "Thanks" in email correspondence. I just went through my inbox at work here, and out of 20 current items, 19 had "Thanks" at the end of it.
 
seriously, the one phrase that was real annoying (that one lady kept using) was:

"spearheaded"

as in, "we were the ones who spearheaded the program" 🙁
 
I hate it when the engineer says "I'll see what I can do later". That means it stays broken forever.

I need to learn some EE stuff....
 
"if you could just move your desk over to storage B, that would be greeeaat."

"sounds like someone has a case of the mondays"

"PC load letter, what the fsck does that mean?"

"You think i should wear more than 15 pieces of flair?"

"You're gonna have as many as 4 people, working right under you"
 
I don't know but I know how to piss those bubble headed types off.

I always say "OK" to almost everything. pisses people off because I do i in a way which is non-commital and non-agreeable. What the point of giving an anwser until yu've really thought it through? I generally don't like being talked to by creatons.
 
"<insert other annoying buzzword here> Technology"
"experience" as in "suboptimal user experience"
"lightweight" (only used if its at least 10x more bloated than it should be)
"extensible" (translation: not yet defined)
"action item"
"take this offline"
"#1 priority" (how can EVERYTHING be #1?)
"<insert department abbreviation here> magic" (especially if its your department)
 
I hate when people here call the Technical Support group "Techies"

Bugs the HELL out of me and I'm not even one of the "Techies"
 
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