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21 Office Buzzwords It’s Time to Banish Forever
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| March 28, 2024
| Sarah Griffin
Posted on 04/21/2024 6:46:48 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: lee martell
Israelis use an expression that means ‘grinding water’.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:43:58 PM PDT
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: DoodleBob
How about, “...reinvent the wheel...”?
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:44:03 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I’m 73.So you're the one who came up with, "Let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes."
Shame, shame...
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:44:50 PM PDT
by
IrishPennant
(Did Adam and Eve Have Belly Buttons?)
To: TBP
May I suggest: I get it. I really do. and First a little housekeeping.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:45:40 PM PDT
by
healy61
(.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Thank you.
I can’t believe I never heard that song or saw the video.
I knew Weird Al was a national treasure.
This song proves he’s a genius.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:45:50 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: DoodleBob
None of these bothered me when I was working as much as turning a noun into a verb or vice versa, as in “What’s the ask?” Or “can you whiteboard that?”
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:46:44 PM PDT
by
scouter
(As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
To: IrishPennant
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:47:17 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
GMTA - and you're right, a few of these are decades old.
Would also add "making the sausage" and "ideate."
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:48:10 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Ne supra crepidam)
To: Songcraft
That’s an improvement over what passes for office apparel in some places.
Some folks look like they’re heading to a barbecue.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:48:29 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:48:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: BradyLS; CarolinaPeach
I believe “crack” is slang adapted from England.
It does mean “really good.”
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:52:34 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: TBP
The whole reason for using these words is that they are so amorphous and weaselly.
They allow one to “pivot” while being able to claim later that is what they wanted to do in the first place.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:58:27 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: DoodleBob
Listening to it always made me think of a company I was auditing. I swear at the morning meeting they used every one of those phrases and a few more. And they could not scrap up the money to pay their landscaper.
Since then I have, perhaps unfairly, equated anyone who uses those words with people who may be able to make money but have no control over their spending.
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posted on
04/21/2024 7:58:40 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
To: HYPOCRACY
With all the Indians Mike Lee has brought in get ready for
I work for an international chip company. I hear the phrase "Do the needful" regularly. One of the ladies over there calls me "ji" regularly. It turns out, it more or less means "chief". I rather like that one, even though Perry White never did.
To: grobdriver
22. "Ask" As in, "I have an ask" I've found almost without exception the person who asks "what's the ask?" is simply ignorant. They're an actor pretending they know what's going on.
I am grateful they announce their ignorance. I write them off immediately.
To: TBP
“The great is the enemy of the good.”
Or vice versa
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posted on
04/21/2024 8:01:15 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
To: DoodleBob
I don’t watch tv voluntarily but am often subjected to it, and I’ve noticed that people who make a living by talking, talk in chunks. The other day, someone on Fox delivered herself of three trite expressions in one sentence.
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posted on
04/21/2024 8:05:33 PM PDT
by
Buttons12
( )
To: DoodleBob
#7. “Paradigm Shift”
Nothing quite like invoking the cosmos to describe changing the office printer.
Well, if you are changing it to a PDF system, that might actually be a paradigm shift.
#11. “Move the Needle”
Unless we’re all suddenly DJs, can we agree to just say “make progress”?
I was always under the impression that "move the needle" was more about a seismograph that detects earth shaking movement, rather than a phonograph.
#14. “Win-Win Situation”
A mythical scenario, much like a unicorn, where everyone is happy and nobody’s spreadsheet gets rejected.
Not at all. Both Matt Stafford and Jared Goff benefitted when the Rams traded quarterbacks. That was a win-win. To use a corporate example, "Let's send the hard drives from our decommissioned hard drive storage over to the Altoona office that is running out of disc space".
To: T.B. Yoits
“ My bad “ drives me nuts..
……..
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posted on
04/21/2024 8:09:09 PM PDT
by
Mears
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