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New corporate buzzword I’ve learned this week...and never need to hear again....
February 20, 2020, 09:12 AM
Ronin1069New corporate buzzword I’ve learned this week...and never need to hear again....
I'm in Atlantic City this week.
"Socialize". ie: "Let's socialize that idea with the staffing committee". UGH
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February 20, 2020, 01:16 PM
SW_SigIt is not just a corporate buzzword.
I hear many young people using it, including one of my daughters.
“I have been so busy at work that I have not had a chance to socialize this week.”
My response “welcome to the real world.”
The other is “plugged in”
February 20, 2020, 01:46 PM
PerceptionI don't think that's a new corporate buzzword, I think that's simply a case of "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"
"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards."
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." February 20, 2020, 02:10 PM
CoolRich59Oh yeah. I've been retired for 2 years and that word was real popular in my office even then.
But, I worked for a consulting firm and they are at the cutting edge of idiotic buzzwords and phrases (remember "change the paradigm"? I think my firm invented that one
). As soon as a new one got introduced, you'd hear it incessantly.
The phrase that irritated me the most was
"Is this a good time?" You just barged into my office without knocking and you ask me that as if it somehow excuses your bad manners? Or, you schedule a call with me and yet still ask
Is this still a good time?".
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February 20, 2020, 02:34 PM
DSgrouseIt has been common in my wifes business vernacular since she started with KPMG back in 97.
February 20, 2020, 03:38 PM
LS1 GTOCome on Devil Dog, try to keep up.
Been using that as a PM for the last 5-6 years.
Let this squid break it down Barney Style for you; it's saying the conversation between you and I need additional input to ensure we're not letting anything obvious slip through the cracks. (Like rushing up a hill without aerial support from the carrier.
)
After all, we don't want to screw up the metrics just because we rushed headlong into a situation not fully discussed and digested.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers
The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...
February 20, 2020, 06:22 PM
egregorequote:
"Let's socialize that idea with the staffing committee"
That doesn't even make sense.
Completely wrong context.
February 20, 2020, 06:29 PM
MikeGLIMaybe, within that socializing, some synergies will arise.
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Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. February 20, 2020, 08:20 PM
Skins2881quote:
Originally posted by MikeGLI:
Maybe, within that socializing, some synergies will arise.
Only if you are being proactive not reactive and are willing to shift the paradigm.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis February 20, 2020, 08:34 PM
RogueJSKPotentiality / potentialities is something I'm starting to see more often, for some reason.
Yes, I get that "potentiality" is a real word. But I'm starting to see this being shoehorned in as a fancy-sounding replacement for "potential" by people that apparently want to sound pretentious.
As in
"there's serious potentiality for violence" in place of the standard
"potential for violence". Or
"that new guy has quite a bit of potentiality" instead of the standard
"quite a bit of potential".
Similar to how folks (erroneously) latched on to the real word "fitment" as a fancy-sounding replacement for "fit".
"I was really impressed with the tightness of the slide to frame fitment" instead of
"slide to frame fit".
February 20, 2020, 08:37 PM
MaThGr82quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
quote:
Originally posted by MikeGLI:
Maybe, within that socializing, some synergies will arise.
Only if you are being proactive not reactive and are willing to shift the paradigm.
Be sure to gain consensus on your ideation.
February 21, 2020, 12:40 AM
OKCGeneIsn’t that one step away from creating joinder?
February 21, 2020, 06:31 AM
egregorequote:
Or "that new guy has quite a bit of potentiality" instead of the standard "quite a bit of potential".
February 21, 2020, 07:18 AM
LRS2Yeah, along with "diversity". (Often pronounced with a lithp)
Heck, I thought "diversity" meant having multiple calibers and bullet weights stocked up.