People in positions of responsibility and their use of phrases like "end of play", "streamlined oper

haha, its only middle managers and business consultants that actually speak like this...everyone below them and above them just think they are dicks.
 
Is this thread being created on a weekly basis with a slightly different worded title?

Is there a rota for when its out turn to make our own?
 
I get some amusement from it when the powers that be release communication to us peasants. Business babble - silly phrases, Random Use of Capital Letters and using any word as a verb. I was pleased to learn that the Brand had been professionalised.

It's better artificial slang than txt, though it's much sillier.
 
I experience this type of thing at work every single day considering most communication from management/people in positions of power is done by email. It is pretentious, annoying and just no need for it really.
 
A friend of mine asked in work where one of his team was, and was told "they're in a meeting, "but it's not mission critical, so feel free to interrupt". Quite how he didn't succumb to the urge to backhand the person using such an excruciatingly bad phrase is impressive.

Luckily, where I work you need to speak clearly, in plain English due to most people using English as their second language, these buzz words and so forth people decide to spout would just cause confusion. About as close as we go to jargon is "yep, it's ******".
 
Saw the thread title and my first thought was Mr Gus Hedges from Drop the Dead Donkey.

Some of his inane quotes:

  • There is just something I'd like to pop into your perculator, see if it comes out brown.
  • Anyway, heads down, chins up, chests out, teriffic, well played team.
  • Are we nuking the opposition news busters? Teriffic.
  • Are we sniffing round the bottoms of the opposition?
  • Aye aye coach, had a good weekend recharging the batteries for another surge of powerhouse info-dynamics?
  • Coach, if I could input into your mental mainframe for a moment...
  • Could we interlock brain spaces in my work area?
  • From now on I'm going to employ relaxation techniques to turn off stress river and mosey gently down contentment creek.
  • George, can we pool our brain spaces into a centre of excellence?
  • Good morning newsbusters, are we cooking with napalm today? You bet!

Along with quite a few others :p
 
Our ex boss was famous for "we don't know what we don't know" whenever she was clueless about anything. I hate when sales guys use the "We need to touch base" as someone previous mentioned.
 
You guys get full sentences?

To see "end of play" on an email would be a joy, we get "COB" (close of business) and other such delights.
 
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Touch base, I hate that phrase. Someone used it in a conference call last week when scheduling the next meeting, Just wanted to punch the guy, but I couldn't as he was in India so instead in my moment of bad-assary I just sat there and listened. YEAH TAKE THAT!
 
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