Office talk, full of it.

[[FnG]magnolia]

Have not read all of thread but has anyone said 'low hanging fruit' yet? FFS, that irked me with the NHS.

****word bingo. A great leveller

 

[Hades]

Remediate
Revert
We are where we are
Going forward

 

[Jonny69]

I'd like to check in on this.

 

[Jest3r]

was in work meeting recently when someone suggested running an idea up the flagpole... stage whisper from back of the room was someone needed to sit on the top of it

 

[Digital]

"Push/Press the button" as in to get the process started. Irritates the hell out of me because it's used that often!

 

[physichull]

I know one at work who mixes her metaphors all the time:

"Lets get the ball on the road"....

"The boots' on the other side of the fence".....


They drive me mad.

 

[Fuzz]

I know one at work who mixes her metaphors all the time:

"Lets get the ball on the road"....

"The boots' on the other side of the fence".....


They drive me mad.

Couldn't stop laughing at one of my mates twisted metaphors.

Champagne pockets, Lemonade arms.

 

[Stolly]

Isn't offshoring great? Do a Google for those phrases, it's not just us. "Doing the needful" is an accepted offshore bastardisation of our language!

We get all this mangled English at our place, and the offshore help desk people talking to us over IM with text speak. "Gud mornin plz cn u hlp wiv dis prob?" Very professional, considering we're their customer.

I remember reading that "kindly do the needful" is actually a phrase we left them hundreds of years ago....we stopped using it but they never did !

Of course, perhaps i need to finesse my analysis, kindly expedite a deep dive and revert back by COP.

 

[Tefal]

Indeed, a lot of people just seem to be complaining about people with superior vocabularies.

This is the same as people on here who get up them selves for using pointlessly fancy words or using Latin when they know the person doesn't know just so they can have the joy of another post explain their previous one.


There is a big difference between having a superior vocabulary and being needlessly verbose.

For example

"I need granularity"

This being a prime example - it's the correct use of English to put across a requirement for looking at the finer detail of an issue or subject.

Yes it may be grammatically correct but it will cause needless confusion and delay as everyone bickers about what exactly he means, just say "I need more detail."

 

[Izi]

Thought shower.

because brain storm is no longer allowed due to pc reasons.

gay tbh.

 

[Robdav]

sounds like you all work for the same guy I do...lol.

Jargon like "we're on a journey... let's ride the bus", "with all due respect...", "either you're on the bus or your not"... "going forward", "thinking outside the box"... etc etc

I'm now finding myself using jargon like this, guess it's the downside of being promoted but then I can now get away with using "let's skate to where the puck is"