Ghastly office jargon…..

Low hanging fruit, Emerging sea of green, Lets not try to boil the Ocean, Moving forward and Team Player are my favorites.
Team Player should be a positive but it’s normally used by people who have no interest in team. Are merely climbing the career ladder and want to be seen as a `Team Player`. They are normally the first to `Jump Ship` as it were.

I have a marking stamp here at school that uses a New Zealandism: ‘Your fellas’ work is choice.’

Chur bro, that’s ace, eh? 😎

My company is divided on geographical lines – head office several counties away is a very different beast to my building full of engineers. Hence a fair bit of snickering when emails come around talking about ‘key messages’, ‘looking for synergies’, ‘drivers’, ‘key stakeholders’ and other buzzwords. ‘It’s about empowerment’ was a good one a few days ago, met with cries of “Someone’s been on a course!”. We started a “BS Word of the Day” competition on the board in the canteen a few weeks ago, and some cracking entries there were, too! Among the usual suspects were Blamestorming*, Seagull Management**, and (a particular favourite) Testiculating***

We probably should have wiped it off before the senior management turned up a couple of weeks later. :stupid:

* Blamestorming – getting together in a group to discuss why a deadline was missed and who will carry the can.
** Seagull Management – A manager who flies in, makes an enormous noise, cr*ps on everyone and then leaves them to clean up the mess.
*** Testiculating – Waving your arms around and talking b*llocks.

A classic!! With the only sensible action on your part!:eek:

This may have been the job of my dreams but the email started…

“I wondered if we could have an exploration conversation to uncover potential synergy “

What, you want to talk about the job?
Deleted email.

Really! Bizarre! 🙁 Where do these weird and nonsensical usages come from?

I would guess that “my bad” means “my mistake”.

If someone utters “my bad” in my presence, my reply is, “Your bad what? Breath? B.O.? Haircut? Dress sense?”
That usually shuts them up…

Or perhaps incomprehensible modern idioms…..anyone know what “my bad” means? Bad is an adjective – how can it follow a personal pronoun…..?:(

Ah, ehm… *Awkward moment!*… Well I do love a particular sweet shop in Sunderland, Sweet Home Alabama IIRC(?), outside the City shopping centre down a small street. I can’t think of directions & all but it’s great. I always go in if I’m in Sunderland. You weight your bag yourself, so cheap too. Last time I was there I had a Pick ‘n’ Mix nearly three quarters full and it was something silly like £3.40 or something – anywhere else you wouldn’t get much change from £15 probably. 😀

Good save :p, next time your up here drop me a PM, we can have a sociable jar of intoxicant in wetherspoons lol…SHA is just along the road from the Cinema (ideally situated im guessing) 😀

The first explanation makes sense but the “clique” which uses playground argot is huge – perhaps even a majority of youngsters.

It’s to make boring people in boring offices look and sound slightly better than everyone else.Being part of a clique that speaks abit different YAH

“Keep Calm and Carry On,”.… damned good advice there, what?!

It’s interesting that whilst office jargon has always existed, many people can carry on in that environment and not only be well aware of it but coexist with colleagues, without using it. So, I wonder what purpose it actually serves.

And for most schools the language of the playground will rarely be used in the classroom. So again I wonder what its purpose is.

Language fads are commonplace; thirty years ago “says” was replaced by “goes” (pronounced “guz.”) Forty years ago favourable things were “fab,” then, twenty-five years ago it was “wicked,” now they’re “cool.” Ordinary folk just have to grit their teeth “Keep Calm and Carry On,” while waiting for the next abomination.

It seems to me “a bit in and out and up and down “

Perhaps we are seeing a slow evolution from normal speak to “text” speak……hope I’m gone before it becomes a reality!!

By the way is it me or is the site very “frail” this morning…??

Very flaky

Very flaky

Perhaps we are seeing a slow evolution from normal speak to “text” speak……hope I’m gone before it becomes a reality!!

By the way is it me or is the site very “frail” this morning…??

Back on thread with a great post. Now if every office was to publish a dictionary……..:)

It’d be written in Crayon!

Today I overheard the saying “YP” today from a couple of office going chaps in our Guitar store today. I asked my colleague/mate what it meant, she said it means; “Your Problem!”… *Cringe!*

Scuse me? …………………..im from Sunderland, although the wifi is in need of a great deal of work lol

Ah, ehm… *Awkward moment!*… Well I do love a particular sweet shop in Sunderland, Sweet Home Alabama IIRC(?), outside the City shopping centre down a small street. I can’t think of directions & all but it’s great. I always go in if I’m in Sunderland. You weight your bag yourself, so cheap too. Last time I was there I had a Pick ‘n’ Mix nearly three quarters full and it was something silly like £3.40 or something – anywhere else you wouldn’t get much change from £15 probably. 😀

Back on thread with a great post. Now if every office was to publish a dictionary……..:)

Where I used to work we had quite a spell of this type of thing, until we published a joke ‘dictionary’ translating these phases into there real meaning, such as ‘at this moment in time’ = Now, and after we did this it stopped fairly quickly!