Recent permie "buzz words"

[AZZIK]

So we have had Blackberry's constantly vibrating, the use of "going forward" hundred times a day, now some new ones that the permies have started using:

"Fun and games" & "can of worms." I mean these aren't new and we know that, but the guy in front of me uses them constantly throughout the day! It's so annoying...

[Ken Dodd]

"soup to nuts" as in "from the soup at the start of a meal to the nuts at the end"

otherwise known as: from start to finish.

FFS!

[Mich the Tester]

Why not schedule a meeting-in-a-box and invite some stakeholders to brainstorm about this? I'm sure that with some S.M.A.R.T goalsetting and tight timeboxing you can achieve the synergies required to furnish an integrated solution to this issue. Going forward, that is.

[Zippy]

I hate "going forward"

[DiscoStu]

I hate "going forward"

I hate permies.

[Mich the Tester]

The most irritating bit of corporate cackspeak I ever heard was 'transformation has just become a verb', at a bank in Holland.

[Clippy]

The most irritating bit of corporate cackspeak I ever heard was 'transformation has just become a verb', at a bank in Holland.

It may have been accurate if the guy was a AutoBot.

[d000hg]

I hate permies.

I'd expect it's consultants brought in to help the company who should shoulder a lot of the blame.

[Lockhouse]

Everyone here has just started using "Conflation"

[bogeyman]

I'd expect it's consultants brought in to help the company who should shoulder a lot of the blame.

Yes. No doubt about that.

I remember in the mid 1980s when I was a lowly spod, that management consultants (e.g. Kearney) oozed their filthy way into my organization and began using phrases like "blue sky thinking" and "pushing the envelope".

The only "envelope" I wanted to push, was my tightly-rolled, and unlubricated resignation letter, forcefully up the sphincter of Kearney's 'principal consultant'.

Fortunately they tired of the battle and withrew, licking their wounds and salving their conciences with about £2M. Bastard tulips!