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04-05-2014, 03:23 PM
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#61
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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For some reason all hackneyed sports analogies really annoy me. It's like EVERYBODY is supposed to identify with them, when in reality only a subset of people do.
Particularly when used in ED/Viagra ads. I'll never forget whats-his-name "get back in the game!" TMI TMI !!!!!!
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04-05-2014, 03:24 PM
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#62
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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I remember lots of shifting paradigms when I was working, but that didn't really bug me.
Thankfully, I don't hear much of these buzz phrases nowadays.
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04-05-2014, 03:25 PM
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#63
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Amethyst
Me, too. In fact, one should never miss a chance to bring cats into the conversation. Derails all pompousness immediately.
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Great advice!
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04-05-2014, 07:50 PM
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#64
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 2,796
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Optics. Wrap my head around it. Actionable.
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04-05-2014, 08:08 PM
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#65
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2011
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It seems like SO is being replaced by LOOK.
LOOK...We've been doing this...
LOOK...the market is going to do this or that.
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04-06-2014, 06:09 AM
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#66
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Bushnell
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Let's touch base
I have a hard stop
Who's on point
When's our next one on one
Let's get some 360 feedback
Please engage
Thanks for reaching out
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04-06-2014, 06:27 AM
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#67
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,743
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Pulse Check (to check employees morale) 
Laser Focused
KPI (key performance indicator) instead of metrics
Circle back
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04-06-2014, 06:35 AM
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#68
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Location: Bushnell
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Lets do some goal setting
I'll cascade my goals
We are aligned.
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04-06-2014, 07:27 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Let's take it to the next level.
Diversity and inclusivity
The net-net of this is ...
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04-06-2014, 08:22 AM
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#70
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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'Nobody's leaving untill customer XYZ says it's working'
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04-06-2014, 10:28 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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We had a person in the group who always used the latest 'words' ... Which did seem to impress some of the executives. But recently reading about the definition of a psychopath..think he was/is one...and this was a part of his method of manipulation. He constantly used the word 'overarching' ...that was 10 yrs or so ago...still hear it occasionally today.
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04-06-2014, 10:39 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Lately, I've been hearing the phrase "Free chicken," as in "We're just free chicken to them."
It seems to mean "Because we already do X as part of our job, and we work with organization Y, Org Y expects us to do all their X work, instead of paying someone else to do X."
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Even a blind clock finds an acorn twice a day.
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04-06-2014, 09:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David1961
What are some of you favorite (or least favorite) buzzwords from work? Off the top of my head, here's some of mine:
24/7
Push the envelope
Low hanging fruit
Let's take this off-line
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Let's reposition into this SPACE.
Holistic.
And of course, the secret to success, " PLASTICS".
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04-07-2014, 04:39 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Sac suburb
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Heh, a friend just tweeted:
I am in a meeting where people say things like "provided her concurrence" rather than "agreed."
Poor guy. 
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04-07-2014, 05:05 PM
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#76
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lemming
I hate "does that make any sense" said every third sentence to get you to agree to drivel.
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That's a weasel one. They don't actually commit to an opinion.
Make sense?
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04-07-2014, 05:10 PM
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#77
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Recycles dryer sheets
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New direction.
Except they don't tell us what the new direction is, though apparently it involves firing almost all the managers.
And employee engagement. Yeah, I'm engaged when I have no idea what's going on day to day and morale is at an all time low.
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04-07-2014, 05:32 PM
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Move forward.
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04-07-2014, 06:18 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fair Lawn
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The 3 are despised the most were already mentioned:
110%
Diversity
Utilize
The one I liked to use (sure hope it's not a cliche yet) was "traction" when talking about a strategy to consider.
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04-07-2014, 07:04 PM
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#80
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Functionality
Alignment
Take this offline
Go-live date
Engage
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