Manager Lingo

[Fonz-Valo]

"We need to be pro-active not re-active"
That really ****** me off lol

 

[Participant]

Can't be a serious company if all they do is swear.

Apparently they only tend to swear when mrk has assured them that the customer's cabling is up to scratch, and they then find out it's actually mangled.

 

[-Ad-]

Also:
'Drill down'

Quite useful in my field, seeing as that's how you get to the oil

 

[Haggisman]

'Lets take this off-line'

rage

I use this one quite often

But then I am talking about servers

 

[mrk]

Apparently they only tend to swear when mrk has assured them that the customer's cabling is up to scratch, and they then find out it's actually mangled.

Customer? Do you purposefully skew what you read to make yourself sound better or something? Also, I don't have to assure anyone of anything, I manage my own department so employees are the ones that assure me about their remote site systems!

 

[Participant]

This seems appropriate at this point

 

[mrk]

You're not doing great job of coming across as sensible today it seems on any of the forum sections you've posted in

 

[CrispyOtter]

Manager at my old job used to use 'sense-check' as in...

'Bob can you sense-check these numbers for me?'

Everytime he said it I wanted to punch him in the face.

 

[Participant]

Meh, when I'm bored, sensible isn't my forte!

 

[Clav]

Low hanging fruit!

 

[krooton]

I have to endure this stuff constantly, thankfully not so much now that I moved away from project management.

I can't really argue with cascade and high-level though, they make perfect sense in context.

 

[JonnyT]

Try this in your next meeting/brainstorm/'blamestorm'/focus group/'idea shower'

Buzzword Bingo Generator

 

[gatzi]

I use this one quite often

But then I am talking about servers

Yeah, they are not talking about servers!

 

[Basher]

"We need to be pro-active not re-active"
That really ****** me off lol

What's wrong with that

 

[kefkef]

Low hanging fruit!

Ahh, make sure you pick the low hanging fruit to avoid any downstream pollution.........

 

[pingwing]

"can you keep a lid on the squid"

 

[Vonhelmet]

"can you keep a lid on the squid"

WTF?

 

[wordy]

Management 'Tiger Teams' for when there are major incidents.

To me a Tiger is an impressive, powerful, dynamic animal, and thus has abolsutely nothing in common with our management.

'Ostrich Team' would be more appropriate.

 

[regulus]

In short, I think I need to get out of the corporate environment and do something else instead.

That's why I could never do it. I worked for Vodafone Corporate fresh out of university for a year and the amount of ass-kissing, sucking up was pathetic. If manager A had his hair styled into a buzz cut, a whole host of ass-kissers would run out and do the same. If he started using the word 'buddy', everyone was suddenly using it. Like a bunch of drones incapable of presenting their own personalities as they were so fanatical about fitting with the culture and keeping the Lingo dropping in every sentence.

Right now my managers swear, drink, love porn and strip clubs. My kinda people

 

[randal]

That's why I could never do it. I worked for Vodafone Corporate fresh out of university for a year and the amount of ass-kissing, sucking up was pathetic. If manager A had his hair styled into a buzz cut, a whole host of ass-kissers would run out and do the same. If he started using the word 'buddy', everyone was suddenly using it. Like a bunch of drones incapable of presenting their own personalities as they were so fanatical about fitting with the culture and keeping the Lingo dropping in every sentence.

Right now my managers swear, drink, love porn and strip clubs. My kinda people

Hmm, Vodafone. Newbury. Guessing you're local to that.

Your strip club loving boss hiring?