[ConservativeStatement]

Taken from Yahoo's front page: "If your boss tells you to "take it offline" during a meeting, here's what she really means."

Why does the writer use "she" to describe a generic boss? What happens if the boss is a transgendered person confused about his or her identity in this everchaging mosaic that is America? What a sexist! /sarc

[End Times Sentinel]

I've noticed that

Fag(ott), AIDS Monkey, retard, and all but the most clever of racial epithets are pretty much frowned upon, at least at my office.

[Puppage]

I think I’ll circle back & take a 30 thousand foot overview of this story.

[DManA]

KPI (Key Punching Idiot)

[Tax-chick]

Two of my favorite bits of jargon come from a reader in the U.K. who says he made them up. The first: is "failure cascade", which he defines as a "sequence of bad stuff happening." An example might be: "The knowledge economy seems to be in a failure cascade." "Bus factor," he says, is a measure of how much the company would suffer if person X got hit by a bus. Example: "Billy has a really high bus factor." He reports that both phrases seem to be catching on.

This is my favorite part of the article.

[Red Badger]

[rarestia]

The propensity for women writers to use the feminine third person is becoming pretty standard. Every textbook I’ve read during graduate school has been written with “she,” while the male writers use neuter such as “they, them, their, etc.” However, the latter usages are still frowned upon as poor English in lieu of using “he and/or she.”

The academics (and journalists) are completely steeped in radical feminism, and “gender studies” in any discipline usually means investigating the impact of something on women. Men are always excluded.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

At the end of the day, most of this co-depends upon the adjacencies of deliverables in the context of an end-to-end right-sized, yet scalable solution.

[Proud2BeRight]

Also: “getting grounded”, “architect” used a verb, and “paradigm”.

[Ditter]

I am hopelessly “out of the loop” by choice.

[AlmaKing]

I hate:

Lather
Rinse
Repeat

Stooopidddd!

[dfwgator]

[Proud2BeRight]

And “push back”

[SpaceBar]

A revolting phrase making the rounds in political circles is “speaking truth to power”. Hannity, Cunningham, and Levin seem to just love it.

[lysie]

Brainstorming....

[Londo Molari]

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”.

[Texas Eagle]

"Does that make sense?"

The next time someone says that to me, so help me....

[Emile]

It is what it is.

[Lazamataz]

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.

[ßuddaßudd]

My favorites are Caveat and Selective Ignorance.

[jiggyboy]

Whenever I hear “at the end of the day”, I make sure to put my hand up and ask if he thinks it will be done by 5 or 6 PM, or should I call home and say I’ll be late. They’re starting to get the hint.