Office/Management speak

[grywolf627]

For those of us all too familiar with it, maybe you'll get a smile out of this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7457287.stm


My favorite:

33. "I once had a boss who said, 'You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music.' It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil."

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Thank you!

This thread has anthropological value. I hope some historian reads it in 100 years and discovers what kind of jackasses we all sound like and then jumps out the window. Sadly, this thread is accurate. What's interesting is that the Brits seem to say the same stupid things we do.

 

[Machinated]

I hate all that talk. I can't believe some people get away with it.....

 

[RyanUsesThis]

I have a hard time NOT laughing at meetings because of this shit...

 

[Metaltastic]

Eh, the only ones that really get me are either the huge cliche motivators ("They're not problems, they're challenges!!) or the atrocious political correctness ("Idea shower" rather than "Brain storm," uggghhh) - most of the rest on that list are either pretty standard or just don't make any sense (I guess you have to know the person/organization they refer to), so they don't really bother me. I was hoping it'd be more like "Office Space," with Lumberg - "Peter (deep breath) how's it going? I'm gonna hafta go ahead and ask you to come in this saturday. Mmgreat" I love that movie.