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Originally posted by xantom:
"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."

What, are you on the calls with my team members when we talk about the stakeholders in the project? You must be the one that’s not engaged in the conversation.

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What, are you on the calls with my team members when we talk about the stakeholders in the project? You must be the one that’s not engaged in the conversation.

I fully disengage as soon as a PM starts talking like this.

debunked
fact-checked
Pinocchios
intersectionality
underserved
conventional wisdom

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Originally posted by ugeesta:

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Originally posted by xantom:
"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."

What, are you on the calls with my team members when we talk about the stakeholders in the project? You must be the one that’s not engaged in the conversation.

You should loop in his manager to get buy in to reinforce the value of engagement by his direct reports.

“Boots on the ground” when referring to staffing up a project.

I had one manager get all jacked up about a problem and yelled at his subordinate to deal with it with a “one shot, one kill” mentality. He received a “coachable moment” by a VP who was on the call to “dial it down a notch” and who happened to be an actual special forces veteran.

I am partial to using “get your poop in a group” on occasion.

Can’t listen to a government employee with hearing inclusiveness or equity.

Ha

Peeing over the horizon and getting yeeted

That's great Monkey

I’ve gotten a chuckle out of being on a long-running conference call when the host or moderator indicates a pause for a “biological break.” I suppose this is somehow more sensitive than just saying “break” or certainly “bathroom break.” LOL

The phrase "does that work for you?" always irritates me. It is, apparently, an attempt to avoid asking someone directly whether they like the idea or not. Much of this corporatespeak seems to be uttered in a effort to lighten or obfuscate undesirable concepts, speaking about a difficult situation in euphemism does nothing to foster understanding or resolution, instead it only serves to trivialize the situation.

Drill down
Good get
Big ask

"At the end of the day...we don't know what we don't know."

Fucking brilliant.

Social Distance. Yeh, I got bad gas.

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Originally posted by TheFrontRange:
I’ve gotten a chuckle out of being on a long-running conference call when the host or moderator indicates a pause for a “biological break.” I suppose this is somehow more sensitive than just saying “break” or certainly “bathroom break.” LOL

Personally, I've become fond of using my own term of 'pay the coffee rent'

At the end of the day what makes it worse when they become talking point for the left (mostly) and are repeated at nauseum.

The Dems just sprang a new one on us, “Personal infrastructure.”

Although there is nothing wrong with the following, I am tired of hearing them especially in the same dialogue and by the same people:

transformational
foundational

THE one that gets me… “Trust but verify”. That is total bullshit you can only do one or the other! With trust, there is no verification needed. Oh wait, there is one more… Please keep this “close to chest” and there are 10 people on the conference call.

'All accidents are preventable" bullshit, the only way to make all accidents preventable is to take out the human factor and that is impossible

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Originally posted by TheFrontRange:
I’ve gotten a chuckle out of being on a long-running conference call when the host or moderator indicates a pause for a “biological break.” I suppose this is somehow more sensitive than just saying “break” or certainly “bathroom break.” LOL

I don’t know if it came from there, but “bio break” is heavily used in online gaming communities for games that requires the player to sit in long sessions where getting up and leaving for a few minutes could possibly ruin the run and the time invested by multiple players. Particularly MMORPG’s (massively multiplayer online role playing games). For example, you may be in a particular run where you have to sit for a half hour or more specifically to gather the amount and type of resources you need to build whatever item - you’re “farming” resources. “Bio breaks” are used to prevent “shit-socking,” a phenomenon that developed, as I understand it, in the Korean MMO community, and it’s exactly what you think it is.