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    Business Speak Bullsh!t Bingo begins...

    ok, roll up roll up..

    fed up of hearing about "Blue Sky Thinking" or "Thought Grenade" buzzwords, now you can play ...Business Speak Bullsh!t Bingo

    rules:
    -only those comments you've heard in your office/workplace (none of this my mate in the pub once heard..)
    -bingo is played for 1 week, so midday Weds 24th we will decide the winner
    -the winner is the buzzword that is heard most often (i.e the most popular piece of buzzword/bullsh!t speak wins)
    -in the event of a tie or none repetition of business speak then the winner will be decided by a vote

    for the first entry i've just heard:

    "can we have a Timebox window for these questions"
    translation: an allocated amount of time for quickfire questions, at the end of the time period you finish and if required re-organise a 2nd Timebox window ensuring no one person is held up or delayed by the meeting.
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    #2
    Current client is blissfully free of this sort of sh1te and is quite 'old-school' in many respects. Even heard someone the other day refer to "those useless w@nkers in Personnel" which was refreshing.

    Last place had a lot of people running around 'expediting' and 'reverting'.
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      #3
      Originally posted by chef View Post
      ok, roll up roll up..

      fed up of hearing about "Blue Sky Thinking" or "Thought Grenade" buzzwords, now you can play ...Business Speak Bullsh!t Bingo

      rules:
      -only those comments you've heard in your office/workplace (none of this my mate in the pub once heard..)
      -bingo is played for 1 week, so midday Weds 24th we will decide the winner
      -the winner is the buzzword that is heard most often (i.e the most popular piece of buzzword/bullsh!t speak wins)
      -in the event of a tie or none repetition of business speak then the winner will be decided by a vote

      for the first entry i've just heard:

      "can we have a Timebox window for these questions"
      translation: an allocated amount of time for quickfire questions, at the end of the time period you finish and if required re-organise a 2nd Timebox window ensuring no one person is held up or delayed by the meeting.

      Em chef, can we take this "offline" please?
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        #4
        Damn, should have had this a couple of weeks ago when I was still at my last client ( major international telco doing lots of NHS related work ). They were knee deep in the stuff.

        The kind of people who use words like "leverage" and "synergy" in the same sentance, and mean it.
        Last edited by DaveB; 17 October 2007, 10:16.
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          #5
          The worst one has to be "lets touch base"
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            #6
            Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
            The worst one has to be "lets touch base"
            Can you do that with a hangover?
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              #7
              Maybe we could brown bag this meeting for tomorrow lunchtime.

              Deciphered: Today's meeting is overrunning. It's too much like hard work for me to oraganize a meeting room, now. So, instead, I want us all to meet in the canteen tomorrow at lunchtime, where we'll have our lunch and continue the meeting. 5 points to any CUK member who realized immediately that this was an American talking.

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                #8
                Originally posted by daviejones View Post
                Can you do that with a hangover?
                Smarty!! I can barely function, today let alone touch any kind of base!
                Bazza gets caught
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                  #9
                  "I need someone to step up to the plate"

                  Translation - can someone do this challenging task for me, please. It is NOT an invitation to start eating all the food in sight, SA!
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
                    Em chef, can we take this "offline" please?
                    My project manager often says in her team progress meetings "let's take this offline and we can discuss out of the meeting"
                    Last edited by KathyWoolfe; 17 October 2007, 10:36.
                    It's Deja-vu all over again!

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