50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

[natty bumppo 289]

Or ...

"Let's cut that in half ... by two"

[pedroh 21]

A bit different because I'm in education, but our principle calls the school our "brand" and that we our selling our "product" (education?) to our "clients" (students?). It's so annoying because most of us refuse to see students as clients and rather as learners....

that's thanks to us evil marketers muahaha.. yeah.. basically everything is a product.. even friendship is a product.. your friends are your clients, and it depends how good you are with the your own branding, to be a better 'good' for them..

the phrase i hate the most is 'we have to think outside the box'.. it irks me

[Alex+R 0]

Turning nouns into verbs. Conferencing, officing, etc. SKIN. CRAWLS.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A bit different because I'm in education, but our principle calls the school our "brand" and that we our selling our "product" (education?) to our "clients" (students?). It's so annoying because most of us refuse to see students as clients and rather as learners....

that's thanks to us evil marketers muahaha.. yeah.. basically everything is a product.. even friendship is a product.. your friends are your clients, and it depends how good you are with the your own branding, to be a better 'good' for them..

the phrase i hate the most is 'we have to think outside the box'.. it irks me

I always keep thinking of doing a Mark Corrigan when I hear that stuff.

"Let's not think outside the box. In fact, we should think very much inside the box. And keep the lid closed".

Edited June 17, 2008 by Number 6

[jundp 191]

A bit different because I'm in education, but our principle calls the school our "brand" and that we our selling our "product" (education?) to our "clients" (students?). It's so annoying because most of us refuse to see students as clients and rather as learners....

that's thanks to us evil marketers muahaha.. yeah.. basically everything is a product.. even friendship is a product.. your friends are your clients, and it depends how good you are with the your own branding, to be a better 'good' for them..

the phrase i hate the most is 'we have to think outside the box'.. it irks me

oooooooooooohhhhhh I hate that one too.

That applies to education as well. Only we "teach outside the box"

NO I WANT TO BE IN THE DAMN BOX

[pedroh 21]

A bit different because I'm in education, but our principle calls the school our "brand" and that we our selling our "product" (education?) to our "clients" (students?). It's so annoying because most of us refuse to see students as clients and rather as learners....

that's thanks to us evil marketers muahaha.. yeah.. basically everything is a product.. even friendship is a product.. your friends are your clients, and it depends how good you are with the your own branding, to be a better 'good' for them..

the phrase i hate the most is 'we have to think outside the box'.. it irks me

oooooooooooohhhhhh I hate that one too.

That applies to education as well. Only we "teach outside the box"

NO I WANT TO BE IN THE DAMN BOX

u know, i made a project once about religious marketing.. and they use the same products.. is not as crazy as u think to call people 'clients' and religion the 'product'

but yeah.. thinking outside the box referring to a creative process, is so fukcin 80's..

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There's irony there too - because if people really were "thinking outside the box" they probably wouldn't resort to cliche

[Gigli2008 70]

I was involved in interviewing/recruiting for my company - every time an applicant said "I'm a people person", I wanted to say......next!

Edited June 17, 2008 by Gigli2008

[pedroh 21]

There's irony there too - because if people really were "thinking outside the box" they probably wouldn't resort to cliche

yeap

[bluegreen 0]

"Vectors for success"

"drill down" - ie: "So, let's drill down a little further, align our goals and desired outcomes for this strategic partnership, and come up with some really solid vectors for success"

IE: Let's waste more time drinking coffee in this stuffy conference room making nebulous plans and acting like self important twats so we don't have to go back to our desks and actually DO any of this work...

Ugh. I don't miss my marketing job!!

[Jack and Barbara 0]

A bit different because I'm in education, but our principle calls the school our "brand" and that we our selling our "product" (education?) to our "clients" (students?). It's so annoying because most of us refuse to see students as clients and rather as learners....

A friend of mine used to work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. They called the patients there "clients".

Well... their clients are nuts!

[mawilson 2,133]

Turning nouns into verbs. Conferencing, officing, etc. SKIN. CRAWLS.

Copycatting (post #4)

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I think everyone on this thread works where I do.

Either that, or idiocy is contagious.

[Alex+R 0]

Turning nouns into verbs. Conferencing, officing, etc. SKIN. CRAWLS.

Copycatting (post #4)

It's a little different, though. I hate it more when nouns are made into verbs than I do when verbs are reconfigured based on their noun (e.g., "conversate").

[PlatyPius 5]

At the end of the day..... it's f##king night, you moron.

HATE that one. Anyone who uses it is immediately filed in my mental "Self-Worshipping Prat" folder.