Staycation
What the hell happened to just “Taking a few days off work”? I just read that word for the first time about 2 weeks ago in the “Business” section of our newspaper. I wanted to kill the writer of that article as soon as I saw it. :smack:
There’s just a while bunch of nouns that have been converted to verbs – that should all go away and die. Let’s not “interface” any longer, shall we?
Another of my least favortite terms is “face time”, as opposed to time spent on the phone.
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Gahhhh…decimate bugs me. I don’t know why but it bugs the snot out of me.
In a 401(k) discussion resently I said my 401(K) had been decimated. Everyone assumed I had lost everything. 
Yeah! When I go to Little Mike’s Appointment Only Naturopathic Clinic, they mostly use standard medicine but ONLY treat my KNEE holistically! What’s up with that?
He has a lot on his plate. Multi-tasking. Irons in the fire. Balls in the air. The metaphorical hat.
Hell, I still hear “Think outside the box”.
“Deliverables.” Yes, I know it’s probably a perfectly cromulent word in some business paradigm, but it makes me twitch.
It seems every software company uses “robust” to describe their product. They need a thesaurus.
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Well… Jargon-speak in the corporate IT world? It is what it is.
We have to balance our resource management between strategic and tactical items. And simply having the ability to execute is not enough, we need to deliver the solution. One that’s a turnkey solution, and the measure of success would be its simplicity: one that your {fifth-grade son|grandmother who doesn’t speak English} could figure out and use.
Oh Zog yes. This makes me twitch. It was really bad a few years ago and I remember reading an editorial begging people to quit writing it. I tried to find the article but my Google skills failed. Speaking of which
Google-fu
is quite annoying.
and “brainstorm.”
**Buzzwords and hackneyed phrases that must DIE **
Am I the only one who ground his teeth at the word “buzzword”?
What? I haven’t heard that since at latest 1993, with the exception of references to the year 1993.
The ones I hate are:
“under the bus,” obviously. This one is a few years old and I thought it was dying, though.
“all your ducks in a row” cute, but can you figure out a way to form a sentence without using it?
“touch bases with you” I’m not a baseball fan, but I think it’s just base. And you’re overusing it, corporate shill!
“that doesn’t jive” just flat-out misused 99% of the time. It’s jibe. And it’s overused.
And that absolute worst?
“it is what it is” this wins the awards for the most overused and most meaningless phrase I’ve ever heard in my life. It has become almost a stutter for some people, coming out 5 or more times in a very brief conversation, sometimes at random. It was mildly insightful when my philosophy teacher said it years ago (phrased slightly differently); you, however, just sound like a douche.
Having recently been thrown under the bus at work, I have to say the phrase really resonates with a victim.
The point of the phrase is not the escape of the Thrower, but the inevitability of the Bus. The Bus is going to take someone out; someone in its immediate path. The Bus does not hunt in a pack, and swerve for any victim thrown to distract it. The Bus (that would be your Boss) just goes full steam until it runs over the first available victim.
Then it stops and holds Team Building exercises.
The word “pivot” seems to be getting used a lot this political season. It hasn’t quite reached the stage of hackneyed ubiquity yet but I can see it getting there.
“let by gones be by gones”
I came in here to say ‘‘on the ground.’’ They use it on NPR all the time.
My boss also tends to say, ‘‘At this level…’’ No matter what I ask him, his response is, ‘‘At this level, we should…’’ I don’t even know what that means. What other level is there? I’ve been working here nearly a year… have I not discovered all there is to discover about my call center job? Do we get colored belts or something as we rise through the ranks?
And as much as I love The Office, if my husband says That’s what she said one more goddamn time… :mad:
You’re kidding. Has anyone since Wendell Willkie “thrown their hat into the ring”? It’s as retro as straw boaters (which, come to think of it, were ideal for ring entry).
And…it’s all good.
Does anybody else wish this was misspelled “turkey” more often? “We can offer you a turkey solution.”
Olives, the next time he says “At this level…” you should stand on a chair and say, “Well, how about this level?”