Office talk, full of it.

"Lets take the low hanging fruit" - meaning : I want to succeed in something for a change, claim the credit, then move on before the real difficult stuff starts where I will fail again

"Draw a line in the sand" - meaning : I ****'d up / someone I like ****'d up and we don't want to blame them

"Crack on" - that one just gets me for some reason. I just don't get the "crack" part.
 
manic111 said:
I know what you mean. The jargon that I find most frustrating is, for example, calling a weakness a "development area". It's simply a way of avoiding saying something which might be seen as nasty. Everybody knows that something termed a "development area" is actually a weakness, so why not call a spade a spade rather than just moving the goalposts?
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Builders and 'snagging' they mean stuff they forgot about or totally ****ed up.

It's not a snag, it's wrong, fix it.

I thought software developers were bad until I met a builder :)
 
I'm racking my brain trying to think of some from when I worked at DSG head office as an account manager. Oh my god the sales talk in that place and the little pep talks in the mornings all together round a tiny table used to destroy my very soul.
 
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Im still not entirely sure what 'synergy' means despite it being said in conversations, I just always agree as it sounds like a positive word.
 
"There's no 'I' in team."

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

From a middle management drone who, when implementing time-sheets prior to a round of redundancies, was offered to spend the day with the drawing office to see what we actually did in there. At first, he was like 'ok', then he was 'ah, don't have the time' then said 'we don't want architecturally perfect drawings you know, just something that will do.' :o
My response was a bit of employee jargon - you can either have it done right or you can have it done right now.
He didn't like that and came out with the team thing.
He wasn't a bad bloke, in all fairness, but I think his recent promotion was showing the strain :p
 
You get some equally pretentious job titles as well.

There's currently a job up at our place for a:

Senior Workforce Information Analyst - Projects and Horizon Scanning


I fully expect this person to be wearing full Admiral Nelson attire while standing on the rooftop with a spyglass.
 
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