Every time I hear "Proactive in that/this area" I think of this stuff. And they probably need it...........
Posted on 10/04/2010 7:34:07 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Last year about this time, I posted a list (plus definitions and correct usage) of the office cliches least loved by a random sampling of executives polled by Accountemps. You may — like me — be too snobby and old-fashioned to want to sling the lingo, but you've got to know it or run the risk that your peers and superiors deem you hopelessly out of the loop. (Oops, there's a tired office phrase if there ever was one!) That's why I have made it my personal mission to keep you up to date.
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Every time I hear "Proactive in that/this area" I think of this stuff. And they probably need it...........
A revolting phrase making the rounds in political circles is “speaking truth to power”. Hannity, Cunningham, and Levin seem to just love it.
Brainstorming....
My pet peave is “leaning forward” on an issue. Throw a few management buzz words in, and everyone’s okay so long as you have a “get well plan”.
The next time someone says that to me, so help me....
It is what it is.
My personal favorit is “That’s what she said!”
I spent 2 years in an office where they weren’t frowned upon and had a blast but you needed a thick skin. I’ve been trying to clean up my mouth ever since.
The Company has exhibited leadership by enhancing the facilitation of synergistic, scalable core-competancy paradigm-shifts vis-a-vis the most granular service point of difference, empowering the ongoing assurance of the product architecture being functionally equivalent and parallel to the longitudinal business-practice shift postulated by the use of mission-critical management dialog technology on a go-forward basis, in accordance with ISO-9001:2008 standards.
Paragigm is twenty cents.
Oh, jeez, if our VP gets hold of that we won’t be hearing anything else...
The use of the word “ power “ in front of any other word would drive me to the verge of insanity:
power nap
power walk
power tie
Sorry, bad pun.
Paradigm is twenty cents.
I’d rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard. ;-)
“I talk pretty some day”
I’d love to hear the mayor of Boston or Jesse Jackson say that.
Into the stratosphere!
That is sooo 1990’s.
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