I saw this one in the Afghanistan thread: "over-the-horizon"

I heard one of the Pentagon mooks throw out "deconflict"

Recently, we had "AmCits" and "RumInt" show up in the forum.

Then, there's that golden oldy of corporate America: "Think outside the box" - Listen, do you want to really demonstrate how you're special? Tell them you're going to think about the box.

Referring to problems as "challenges" - Umm, yeah, sparky, I understand what you said, and what you have there is not a "challenge." What you have there is a plain old, ordinary problem.

"Key enabler" What are you people? Drug addicts?

"Pre-meeting" Uh huh. Hey, Mister Coroporate super go-getter! Ever read Dante's Inferno? No reason, just asking. He mentioned a vacation spot I think is perfect for you.

I loathe this shit. The English language is capable of being remarkably descriptive. When employed correctly, a person can communicate quite effectively. All these buzzwords, milspeak, corpspeak- it's concept-obscuring horse shit. Do you want to communicate, or do you want to try to look like a cool-as-shit insider? Let's hear the stuff that bugs you. Load 'em up...

I'll circle back with you shortly.

Laser focused.
Optics.
Alignment.
Unpack.
Conversation.

In all my years I've been on earth, and I've been there done that and back again, I'll tell ya, "AmCits" and "RumInt" are everyday speak for those on the inside. Seriously though, I can't believe it, when I saw those two words on here. Whether he's a real badass or not is irrelevant, the kiwi man just gave me the impression that he operates out of his mom's basement.

Empathy based care.

RumINT I know, it gets used quite a bit where I work and has its place when we don't want to use other words.

But wtf is an AmCits?

American Citizens.

Yammering idiot was dropping all sorts of "OpSpeek" (guy called KiwiKumquat or something ).

Then he tried to "pee over-the-horizon", and ended up getting "yeeted".
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You know what I, and damn near 99% of the people I work with LOVE about our job?

We CANNOT take it home, so when you hear someone using that kind of terminology you know they are full of shit.

With respect to the 'Debacle in Kabul', the word of the moment appears to be:

'Throughput' when referring to the number of people still waiting to get out of town via the airlift.



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I particularly hate: "The New Normal".

Build your own bullshit phrase generator >>

https://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html

“What’s the ask?”

I die a little more whenever I hear that on a call.

It may be the hour but after reading this I went and edited a post where I had proudly proclaimed my guilt as a cookie spread confection "enabler."

Let’s put a pin in that one. Any other alibis?

Her truth, his truth, my truth, your truth

Every motivational phrase used by "life coaches" on LinkedIn.


You can do anything you put your mind to (nope, not true)

The worst feeling in life is being stagnant (nope, I've experienced worse things)

I don’t know one successful person that leaves their cart in the middle of the parking lot. (I do)

Believe in your ability to achieve your dreams (utter nonsense)

There are no mistakes, only opportunities." —(wrong again)

Selfish people never succeed. (Very untrue)

No means next opportunity (no it doesn't)

End means effort never dies (what's wrong with you people?)

Fail means first attempt in learning (no again)

If you believe in something you shouldn’t give up on it (musk) (no, there are things you'd be better giving up on)

And anything related to Musk or Bezos. Especially the picture of Bezos at the beginning of Amazon then stating something about where hard work will get you. Face the facts, Bezos is one in a million and you're business will not be like his.

Lately I've noticed a significant uptick in "To <firstname>'s point". So constantly in a group conversation, it's always: "To r0gue's point", blah blah blah. I think it is to gain multi-person leverage or clout.

I heard “retrograde” used in all these update meetings in the news recently.

It means…RETREATING.

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Originally posted by r0gue:
Lately I've noticed a significant uptick in "To <firstname>'s point". So constantly in a group conversation, it's always: "To r0gue's point", blah blah blah. I think it is to gain multi-person leverage or clout.

Commonly referred to as, "to piggyback off of...". Nah, I don't need to hear your voice just to hear it, I understood it the first time it was spoken in my native language. Ain't no reason to extend this email-level meeting any longer. Let's go home.

"I have some bandwidth to do that, but let's take this topic offline so we can synergize and take a deep dive into the details."