- When the devil gets into the details
- Follow on
- I'm being tongue in cheek
- Planful (this is an actual word, but it is an awful word)
- The Ask is that your team... (what they mean is "request")
- Moving the bar
- On-boarding
- On a go-forward basis
- Collab (because it is hard to say collaboration)
- Dial in (used in place of phone number)
I know I am not the only one who suffers actual pain from these kinds of things. After all there are many, many websites dedicated to corporate bingo. Please share some of your favorites.
5 comments:
Nails. On. Chalkboard..so many of these are nails on chalkboard for me but most especially "the ask." Around here we hear "operationalize" a lot and make fun of it...is it a real word? Yes. Does that make it okay? No. And then there is "the fire..." substituted for saying "the current crisis."
Ooh! Operationalize is really awful. Nails on chalkboard indeed.
No need to suffer alone anymore! I have heard some of these (I can't tell you how many "collab" documents I come across) and they are all definitely cringe-worthy.
Oh-so-glad I am out of the corporate world. Were you around at our old publishing company in the days when we all made fun of "bounderiyessness" (a word my spellcheck, for a change, is right in not recognize)?
Tracie - I am sorry you're suffering in the "collab" world. At least it is only temporary.
Emily - Oh yes, I do remember boundarylessness. How could anyone forget that???!!
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