Is it pretty common to have ridiculous buzzwords in the office?

[lovetheduns]

Originally Posted by Repubocrat

People who use these "buzzwords" are usually incompetent, insecure, no personality, ass kissing losers who try so hard to make up for their lack of intelligence.

They think that by using these BS words, they will sound "smart" or "intellectual"

Typical corporate loser trying to sound smart:

"We believe in our differentiating value-added approach",
"We are proactively engaging in competitive web-readiness"
"We are looking for team players who want to "grow" with the company, because our employees are our most valuable assets”

See THESE are what I think of as corporate jargon.

Although your third one I don't really think is douchy. One thing about my current leadership IS that they actually do like to grow the team. Two of my coworkers just received very deserved promotions as did my boss (another well deserved).

Since we work with a lot of international teams and English is the corporate language-- we hear a lot of things that are directly translated into English (or in the case of the Indians just cultural differences) that do not make sense but have become jargon terms of endearment.

My favorite is "do the needful." And looks like you are "looking for the sheep with five feet" and "lets stop dancing 'round the handbags."

[North Beach Person]

A few months ago the Superintendant for the school system I teach in referred to us 10000 plus teachers as "human cattle". I'd much rather be called a "valuable asset".



We now return to scheduled programming.

We have to develop a strategic, systemic and programmatic set of achievement markers in order to maximize the overall productivity of our mission.

[LongtimeBravesFan]

Originally Posted by Mystique13

it's like high school all over again. the secret handshake. the buzzwords.get real. it makes me sick.i think it reduces people's IQ.

I don't know about IQ, but it certainly seems to reduce writing skills.

[Mystique13]

So IQ has nothing to do with writing skills. People who have low IQ write books and teach? Oh... ok. Using industry words when it is appropriate is one thing but overusing buzzwords and "trend" words is a bit different. It's showing off. And I agree with another poster that overusing the word "like" just turns me off. It sound juvenile. People also keep overusing "umm...." and "you know" all the time. I'ts better to just pause silently for a second, and then continue speaking. Haven't any of these people ever taken speech classes in school? Toastmasters maybe?

[Mightyqueen801]

"They have to have some skin in the game."

"I can't speak to that, but maybe Joe can."

"This is when the rubber meets the road."

[Mightyqueen801]

I think this all started back when Personnel turned into Human Resources.

[Mightyqueen801]

Forgot to quote, but Charles in #32--Do you have a link for that from which I can print it out? I HAVE to take that to my office.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by truckingbronco

Has anyone ever heard the term "strawman" used in a face-to-face conversation?

Or "per" as in "Per John's email last week.."

My personal least favorite is the cold, emotionless, uncaring, unfriendly, email sign off, "Regards"


Regards,

Charles