I hate when auditors use this language. It's a lot harder on the other side of the glass. Of course, I'd follow best practice if it were possible unless it were beyond my requirements.
"My meeting has a hard stop, so lets saddle up and I'll meet you at the pass later"
And if I have to hear the classic football analogy about when someone fumbles the football, Im going to jump out of a window. "So in football, when someone fumbles the ball, whose job is to try and recover it?..... Thats right, everyone on the team tries to jump on it immediately. This is teamwork and how all business team members should act. Do some people on the team just stop and blame others? No! They are trying to win the game".. cue the stupid smile by the speaker who thinks he is clever.
I use ping, just kind of standard messenger terminology at this point. I'm not involved with salesy type people so I usually get to avoid the really egregious "synergize our parallels!" type stuff. I just hate "bio break".
I am actually excited to go to work tomorrow morning and use some of this material at my staff meeting to get back at the people who speak like this. Poetic justice
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
If I write "Please advise" and a superior is CC'd, you'd better believe I'm lobbing the ball in your court and otherwise walking away. I've got other things to do.
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
For some reason I’ve found telling someone to get back to me “at their earliest convenience” works pretty well, but I hate myself when I write it.
I refuse to to give people outs. My deadlines are hard with zero wiggle room as they affect SEC reporting. I set dates and even times on occasion for important requests.
ohhhh my last boss used to use "heads-down" as an adjective to mean really busy/focused. She's heads-down right now, don't bother her. I was heads-down all afternoon and I finished the thing. Drove me bats, but I could sometimes get out of doing more work if I told him I was already heads-down with something else.
I hate when our project management team refers to the labor as "Us" as in:
"Thats some really dirty work for us"
"Its slower work on the roof in the summer because we have to be conscious of hydration"
Like you are in an Air conditioned office, wearing wingtips and saddle shoes while these dude are on a white roof in 95 deg. Weather.
"Our guys" is acceptable.
Also "whats the delta" as in difference between bid and actual cost always grates on me.
Ps. Almost all IT speak is designed to make IT people appear smarter than they are, by confusing laypeople with word salad.
Depends on the level of IT person. Once you get higher up in the IT decision making ladder, there's a decent chance you have more of a business type than somebody that came up through the IT ranks.
I'm the opposite. When I used to do deskside support, I would make my explanations as layman friendly as possible so they would quit infecting their computer with malware.
Same. Let the user know exactly what's going on and how to prevent in a language they can understand. I only start using jargon when the higher ups are being ridiculous and want to confuse them.
Never use jargon for anything. Never really hear it either. Must be the field or profession?
The only thing I get that annoys me is when someone asks for something, I tell them the general rule and a certain way it needs to be done, and they try and work around that rule for their benefit. Like I'm not allowed to do a certain thing, and they try and push their own logic onto me to try and persuade me to go against the rule. Other words, people LOVE to ignore the word "NO".
Some examples would be like if they ask if were hiring, and I say "no", they then follow up with "well, how old you have to be to work here" (The answer is still no?) and the ever so famous "Hey, could you see how much I can get for this?" and I say "Are you over 18 with an ID?" and they say "No"-- then they follow up with "I just want to know how much I can get for this, can you look it up?"
I hate when auditors use this language. It's a lot harder on the other side of the glass. Of course, I'd follow best practice if it were possible unless it were beyond my requirements.
As a regulator, I use this phrase all the damn time
I worked with another guy who didn't know the phrase "flesh out," but he sure liked to "flush" things out. Made it obvious that he was only saying it because he heard other people saying it. That was at a job where every other week, another "analyst" position got created. Someone new would introduce themselves as a "_____ Analyst" and then we all knew they were a person who did nothing and we could ignore them.
I worked with another guy who didn't know the phrase "flesh out," but he sure liked to "flush" things out. Made it obvious that he was only saying it because he heard other people saying it. That was at a job where every other week, another "analyst" position got created. Someone new would introduce themselves as a "_____ Analyst" and then we all knew they were a person who did nothing and we could ignore them.
Makes you wonder which phrases you’re taking for granite
We could probably start an entire other thread with stories in which we found out we’d been saying a phrase wrong.
I worked with another guy who didn't know the phrase "flesh out," but he sure liked to "flush" things out. Made it obvious that he was only saying it because he heard other people saying it. That was at a job where every other week, another "analyst" position got created. Someone new would introduce themselves as a "_____ Analyst" and then we all knew they were a person who did nothing and we could ignore them.
Makes you wonder which phrases you’re taking for granite
We could probably start an entire other thread with stories in which we found out we’d been saying a phrase wrong.
My personal favorite: we had a Marketing VP who kept saying "physical year" instead of fiscal year. Everyone thought this dude must have pronounced it wrong for awhile but it just kept happening. "We should hit our cap-ex budget next physical year". He no longer is employed with us. RIPPPP
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I hate when auditors use this language. It's a lot harder on the other side of the glass. Of course, I'd follow best practice if it were possible unless it were beyond my requirements.
"rinse and repeat"
"My meeting has a hard stop, so lets saddle up and I'll meet you at the pass later"
And if I have to hear the classic football analogy about when someone fumbles the football, Im going to jump out of a window. "So in football, when someone fumbles the ball, whose job is to try and recover it?..... Thats right, everyone on the team tries to jump on it immediately. This is teamwork and how all business team members should act. Do some people on the team just stop and blame others? No! They are trying to win the game".. cue the stupid smile by the speaker who thinks he is clever.
Current:"optics" and "huddle"
All-time: "it's a write-off" - so misused
This one isn't as incredibly obnoxious as some, but I used to hear it a lot - "It is what it is"
For some reason this year I have started hearing the word "cadence", as in "Let's establish a communication cadence with the client."
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
For some reason I’ve found telling someone to get back to me “at their earliest convenience” works pretty well, but I hate myself when I write it.
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
If I write "Please advise" and a superior is CC'd, you'd better believe I'm lobbing the ball in your court and otherwise walking away. I've got other things to do.
I've been guilty of "please advise" in emails. Usually when I'm irritated with someone and their failure to communicate effectively
Yup I do this too.
For some reason I’ve found telling someone to get back to me “at their earliest convenience” works pretty well, but I hate myself when I write it.
I refuse to to give people outs. My deadlines are hard with zero wiggle room as they affect SEC reporting. I set dates and even times on occasion for important requests.
I hate when our project management team refers to the labor as "Us" as in:
"Thats some really dirty work for us"
"Its slower work on the roof in the summer because we have to be conscious of hydration"
Like you are in an Air conditioned office, wearing wingtips and saddle shoes while these dude are on a white roof in 95 deg. Weather.
"Our guys" is acceptable.
Also "whats the delta" as in difference between bid and actual cost always grates on me.
Ps. Almost all IT speak is designed to make IT people appear smarter than they are, by confusing laypeople with word salad.
Depends on the level of IT person. Once you get higher up in the IT decision making ladder, there's a decent chance you have more of a business type than somebody that came up through the IT ranks.
I'm the opposite. When I used to do deskside support, I would make my explanations as layman friendly as possible so they would quit infecting their computer with malware.
Same. Let the user know exactly what's going on and how to prevent in a language they can understand. I only start using jargon when the higher ups are being ridiculous and want to confuse them.
The only thing I get that annoys me is when someone asks for something, I tell them the general rule and a certain way it needs to be done, and they try and work around that rule for their benefit. Like I'm not allowed to do a certain thing, and they try and push their own logic onto me to try and persuade me to go against the rule. Other words, people LOVE to ignore the word "NO".
Some examples would be like if they ask if were hiring, and I say "no", they then follow up with "well, how old you have to be to work here" (The answer is still no?) and the ever so famous "Hey, could you see how much I can get for this?" and I say "Are you over 18 with an ID?" and they say "No"-- then they follow up with "I just want to know how much I can get for this, can you look it up?"
I love it when the words come and go and suddenly everyone starts using them. There must some subscription website where they come from.
For some reason this year I have started hearing the word "cadence", as in "Let's establish a communication cadence with the client."
Oddly, this is a new one for me too just in the last few weeks.
According to best practice...
I hate when auditors use this language. It's a lot harder on the other side of the glass. Of course, I'd follow best practice if it were possible unless it were beyond my requirements.
As a regulator, I use this phrase all the damn time
Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
I still say "commode" sometimes. lol
Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
The cool kids say they need a "bio break" now. I hate that term.
Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
The cool kids say they need a "bio break" now. I hate that term.
I've heard this term forever in online gaming, and never understood how "bio" meant bathroom break. I will agree on that being annoying for sure.
I worked with another guy who didn't know the phrase "flesh out," but he sure liked to "flush" things out. Made it obvious that he was only saying it because he heard other people saying it. That was at a job where every other week, another "analyst" position got created. Someone new would introduce themselves as a "_____ Analyst" and then we all knew they were a person who did nothing and we could ignore them.
Makes you wonder which phrases you’re taking for granite
We could probably start an entire other thread with stories in which we found out we’d been saying a phrase wrong.
Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
The cool kids say they need a "bio break" now. I hate that term.
I've heard this term forever in online gaming, and never understood how "bio" meant bathroom break. I will agree on that being annoying for sure.
"Bio" is used for "Biochemical" People joke about "Biochemical warfare" when farting.
I also agree it's annoying. lol
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Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
The cool kids say they need a "bio break" now. I hate that term.
I've heard this term forever in online gaming, and never understood how "bio" meant bathroom break. I will agree on that being annoying for sure.
"Bio" is used for "Biochemical" People joke about "Biochemical warfare" when farting.
I also agree it's annoying. lol
You mean "Biological" warfare? lol
Have no clue of these terms. I still stuck in the 80's with people telling me they need to use the commode
The cool kids say they need a "bio break" now. I hate that term.
I've heard this term forever in online gaming, and never understood how "bio" meant bathroom break. I will agree on that being annoying for sure.
"Bio" is used for "Biochemical" People joke about "Biochemical warfare" when farting.
I also agree it's annoying. lol
You mean "Biological" warfare? lol
Eh, tomato-potato.
I worked with another guy who didn't know the phrase "flesh out," but he sure liked to "flush" things out. Made it obvious that he was only saying it because he heard other people saying it. That was at a job where every other week, another "analyst" position got created. Someone new would introduce themselves as a "_____ Analyst" and then we all knew they were a person who did nothing and we could ignore them.
Makes you wonder which phrases you’re taking for granite
We could probably start an entire other thread with stories in which we found out we’d been saying a phrase wrong.
My personal favorite: we had a Marketing VP who kept saying "physical year" instead of fiscal year. Everyone thought this dude must have pronounced it wrong for awhile but it just kept happening. "We should hit our cap-ex budget next physical year". He no longer is employed with us. RIPPPP