Words / phrases that annoy you
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"There's no I in team!"
Yes but there is an M and an E..
Yes but there is an M and an E..
Soldato
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Basically
Soldato
Wild camping means = illegally camping
There are plenty of places in the UK (mainly Scotland and NI) where it's perfectly legal to wild camp - as long as you don't burn a forest down!!
Soldato
It's camping. You don't 'Wild walk' or 'Wild Drive'to get there do you? Are you 'Wild Breathing' when you get there? 'Wild Unpacking'? Taking a 'Wild Poo'?
Idiocy pure and simple.
Idiocy pure and simple.
Soldato
Poetry, pure poetry.
Associate
Yup, pretty got all mine covered so far (especially "At the end of the day" and "To be honest"). I also hate "The vast majority". They never just say majority, it's always VAST.
Also, "Going forward". And I hate how newspapers overuse "Fury" and "Misery" in their headlines. People are never just upset/angry/annoyed.
Also, "Going forward". And I hate how newspapers overuse "Fury" and "Misery" in their headlines. People are never just upset/angry/annoyed.
Soldato
Online / Offline.
There are plenty of places in the UK (mainly Scotland and NI) where it's perfectly legal to wild camp - as long as you don't burn a forest down!!
If you've got land owners permision its not wild camping, its just a big campsite
Soldato
No, it means to make something a defined or routine operation. For example, one of my clients had several information requests and it was always some random person trying to compile the information from scratch in their own way in between their "actual" work. I pointed out that we needed to operationalize the task, i.e. formalise it and make it one particular person or team's responsibility. So we did - now time is allocated for it, there's a standard for what information should be returned and Sales have a specific form for requesting the information rather than just sending an email to whichever of my staff they have an email address for. We operationalized the task that we were already doing. Functionally different to "we need to do that."
Bird for woman, hate that.
"just put that through excel" for any data problem
Also as where I work there are only a couple of people who do stats...you often get management jumping on words to do with stats incorrectly. My recent favourite is machine learning where by people seem to going the physical hardware is learning on its own.
But it cash be fun. Trying to get silly words to stick. I have also heard "data mire" used to describe messy datasets.
I hate buzz words for the sake of buzz words.
Other generic terms such as telecon for a call, touch Base.. For meeting, and secret squirrel.. Yep.. For confidential!
"just put that through excel" for any data problem
Also as where I work there are only a couple of people who do stats...you often get management jumping on words to do with stats incorrectly. My recent favourite is machine learning where by people seem to going the physical hardware is learning on its own.
But it cash be fun. Trying to get silly words to stick. I have also heard "data mire" used to describe messy datasets.
I hate buzz words for the sake of buzz words.
Other generic terms such as telecon for a call, touch Base.. For meeting, and secret squirrel.. Yep.. For confidential!
Associate
"Do me a solid" and stop saying "Boffin"
sorry, know it's an old thread, but this year I can't stop hearing people say this. need to rant.
sorry, know it's an old thread, but this year I can't stop hearing people say this. need to rant.
Soldato
Holy thread revival batman!
I hate people who say 'bless'. My sister says it all the time and it really gets on my wick.
I hate people who say 'bless'. My sister says it all the time and it really gets on my wick.
Caporegime
"Could care less".
Bloody Americans ruining our phrases.
Bloody Americans ruining our phrases.