Re: Management cliches : Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:35 pm  

Had cause to speak to someone at our train operating company the other day - he used so much internal jargon it was ridiculous - given that I was a member of the public. The one that made me laugh was "timeline" which came up several times - more or less each sentence. I think "timeline" referred to the fact that I us passengers had been S**t on because they couldn't get a message from a to b quickly enough. In other words, it wasn't really their fault it was the "timeline".

Re: Management cliches : Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:29 pm  

my boss just sent me an email with the following sentence in:

"we are currently leading the development of cross-client enabling operation capability."

Re: Management cliches : Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:38 pm  

EHW wrote:

my boss just sent me an email with the following sentence in:

"we are currently leading the development of cross-client enabling operation capability."

What a nice person he must be!

Re: Management cliches : Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:56 pm  

"I want to share this with you"

there I was expecting a piece of kitkat or something and this fellow starts spouting his great idea. I said to him why didn't you just say I've got an idea and he replied that wouldn't be sharing. Still don't know what he was on about and his idea was crap.

Re: Management cliches : Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:15 pm  

I have American colleagues who don't "get in touch", "phone" or "contact" anyone ... noooo, they "reach out".
Every time I see or hear the phrase, I hear The Four Tops in my head.

Oh, yeah, and we don't "inform" anyone, we "call it out" to people.

I am thinking of changing my name to "Who's just joined?".
On conference calls I could cause havoc.

Re: Management cliches : Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:18 pm  

"There's light at the end of the tunnel."

Every phone call..."Hello Rob speaking"

Also, if he asks anybody to stay behind for longer, he'll always say "it'll benefit your upskilling". His most used line is "is it will or skill?".

He's also one for quotations, often saying "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner", sometimes changing sea to race and mariner to jockey.

Re: Management cliches : Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:21 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I am thinking of changing my name to "Who's just joined?".
On conference calls I could cause havoc.

You MUST work for the same mob I do

Re: Management cliches : Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:48 pm  

Yes I know you've got 20 extra hours on your rota but we're plaiting fog here with all the sickness so you'll have to do it!

Well, sorry but stop trying to plait fog and try recruiting staff who are up to the job instead!

or

We really appreciate how hard you've worked over the last few months

really meaning, we don't know what we'd have done without you because no one else would take that one on and it made us a lot of money, sorry we can only pay you the normal poop wage but there ya go

Re: Management cliches : Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:04 am  

"Let's come at this with a blue sky thinking approach"

and a more common one that I totally over use is to add ".... in the first instance" onto the end of everything.