Ghastly office jargon…..

Can anyone explain the current vogue for addressing everyone from toddler to aged pensioner, whether male or female, as “guys”? Ghastly!

I suspect it’s another sop to the feminist brigade; references to actresses and comediennes have disappeared from the Radio Times, so that everyone, regardless of real gender, is an actor or comedian.

I wish I could be as charitable. It has been used within family and amongst friends of my acquaintance and I overhead it a couple of days ago at an adjoining table as the daughter commenting on her parents prospective house move said ” Yeah, I know it’d be nice but we all want to live as near you guys as possible”! On reflection I suppose that might be a reason for the parents move…..!;)

Probably a mixture of lack of time to talk to people properly,lack of knowledge as to who they are talking to as well.
We have someone at work who calls everyone buddy as he admits he can’t remember names very well.

Can anyone explain the current vogue for addressing everyone from toddler to aged pensioner, whether male or female, as “guys”? Ghastly!

Speaking in acronyms…

Yes, We say “Lol”, “LMAO” & what have you during texts for a few reasons. For me the main one being, since I’m on ‘pay as you go’ I like to save a bit of credit (13p for an ‘effin text!), so it’s understandable. But please, why do so many people (usually Office Jockeys that seem to have the whole world on their shoulders and usually think rather highly of themselves… and have a distinct odour of Coffee, Lynx and office materials for some reason…) speak in acronyms in actual person?…

No kidding, three office chaps came into our Guitar store today chatting amongst themselves, they seemed to have needed a bit of help so I kindly approached them and offered my assistance, as I always do (but never pushy-American-style of offering, *Aggressively approach, talk at speak, put pressure on to make them buy! Buy! Buy!*. *Sigh*) and had a ncanny chat with them, joked around a little bit, nice and friendly, if you need anything just let us know. Anyway, to my surprise they were actually talking in acronyms, one of them actually said ‘LOL’ like it was an actual word. Another even said the letters, L.M.A.O! What the…. and they even “high fived” while doing so… Plus they were arrogant snarky tw@ts.

How much would you not want to work in an office with people like that.

It never ends………

My old boss, who was a nasty, evil bully of the worst kind told me to take some time off to touch my inner self………..

A week or so ago my patience was exhausted when somebody started going on about the “democracy of technology” -:confused::sleeping::stupid: at that point, I made an excuse and left the meeting and went home.

How about ‘Let me be clear’?

Have you heard Peter Sellers’ masterful political speech? Recorded in 1958 and still relevant!:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBtGuu9BVE

I ” stepped down” a few years ago and joined the ranks of “seniors” (ie: I’m an OAP).

One area where the cliché reigns is among our newsreaders…..eg:

“Please Charles (or Fred or Freda etc) give us your sense of what the climate is there ahead of the summit.” = “What’s happening?”

Three in one sentence …and this kind of drivel gets churned out on every news programme.

This is an Americanism.

I suppose Americans would be confused by, for example, people from Newcastle calling each other ‘pet’.

Which is no excuse for its use here – widely and quite recently! We don’t say sidewalk, do we? Or, god forbid, perhaps we do…!

Yes Randy as an American first name must be confusing for some Brits visiting there…..;)

“Let me say this….” (beloved of politicians)

How about ‘Let me be clear’?

Any time soon?? Err…soon will suffice.

This is an Americanism.

I suppose Americans would be confused by, for example, people from Newcastle calling each other ‘pet’.

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

Try figuring that one out.

“Let me say this….” (beloved of politicians); just bloody say it, so that we can get on with the argument.

Any time soon?? Err…soon will suffice.

I can’t work out why people say they will be doing something going forward. Why suffix everthing you say with ‘going forward’.

And nothing continues, any more; it’s always “ongoing.” When that ceases to be the case, is it “onstopped?”

Yes, indeed!!! And, utilising the same word, have you noticed how no one retires or resigns any more – they “step down”.:confused:

Left that rat race a long time ago, but still cringe when I get the phone message, ‘I have stepped away from my desk’. 😀

OMG,WTF,LMFAO 🙂 innit