Tom
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Right I work for a large company which suffers it's fair share of buzz words and marketing lingo (I work within a marketing team doing market research), I've just been discussing with a mate some of the shitty buzz words people use to try and sound clever (mainly brought on by the natwest adverts). BTW ashamidly I have used the term blue sky thinking a few times 
Our new boss is the best for this e.g. In the world of research the buzz words at the minute are around 'insight' and all the normal research terminology has been replaced (my boss is using anyway) here such as 'focus group' is now 'discovery group' or qualitative research telephone interview is replaced with 'insight dive' FPSML we try and link as many of these in one sentance during meetings and drop new things in during that we've just made up to see if people notice
'hospital ticket' - if someone elects to take a day off sick when they were meant to be doing a presentation, the stand in is handed a 'hospital ticket' 
I really need to get a new job
Any others?
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BarnshaW
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what a boring thread
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AuroraSport
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aye we play buzzword bingo at work
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All Torque
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I HATE words like:
Dynamic
Team player
head hunter/hunted
utilizing
quick thinking/multi tasking
deadline
conference calls
market research
"stressful day at the office"  The fuck can it be "stressful" just sitting there and typing!
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Tom
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Originally posted by BarnshaW
what a boring thread
Yes probably if you don't work in an office but then again you think doing the weights makes you just as bad as being a fat slob
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whitter45
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collatoral is anew one in our office
Some guys who were apsrks on site are now in managament positions thinking they can manage people
they went on a course last week for management and now the buzz word is collatoral
I aked one of them in terms of our business why is it needed and what are doing about it
He answer was we just need it lol
Fucking idiots they are
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All Torque
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If I worked in a office I'd end up holding out a knife and running into it
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Sam
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We use a buzz word in our team a lot - 'pundeh' - Indian people will know what this means!
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BarnshaW
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Originally posted by Tom
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Originally posted by BarnshaW
what a boring thread
Yes probably if you don't work in an office but then again you think doing the weights makes you just as bad as being a fat slob
i do work in an office fyi.
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Tom
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Originally posted by All Torque
I HATE words like:
Dynamic
Team player
head hunter/hunted
utilizing
quick thinking/multi tasking
deadline
conference calls
market research
"stressful day at the office" The fuck can it be "stressful" just sitting there and typing!
Agreed on most of it but you can have a stressful day if you work for a bunch of spoons who don;t know how long things take to do, I very rarely get stressed although this week I have been a little bit
Ideation fss
Re-engineering (as in re-writing a questionnaire) mazin
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
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Originally posted by Tom
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Originally posted by BarnshaW
what a boring thread
Yes probably if you don't work in an office but then again you think doing the weights makes you just as bad as being a fat slob
i do work in an office fyi.
Why are you replying again ffs, if you aren't interested fuck off 
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BarnshaW
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because its a thread and i think its boring. if u cant accept negative feedback then dont post 
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Sam
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Easy, Tom.
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Dione J
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Originally posted by Sam
We use a buzz word in our team a lot - 'pundeh' - Indian people will know what this means!
What does it mean
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All Torque
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Oh also
"Can I quiz you on this?"
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ed
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Oh yes.... Buzz words are the best. Try doing a Product Design degree and avoiding them. We have to do a lot of presentation and sales pitch type things and some of the people who try to blag it use all sorts of crazt lingo. It makes me cringe.
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Half Pint
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a guy that sits behine me loves the term "it all smoke and mirrors"
I like " thinking outside the box"
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Lynny
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"enthusiasm"
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Angie
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I work in Marketing and we have "champions" instead of "poor saps roped into doing something they don't want to do" eg communication champion. Although our communication champions are all really unapproachable
oh and instead of administrators we have executives. it's all bullshit.
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Lynny
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Originally posted by Angie
I work in Marketing and we have "champions" instead of "poor saps roped into doing something they don't want to do" eg communication champion. Although our communication champions are all really unapproachable
oh and instead of administrators we have executives. it's all bullshit.
wetherspoons has started using 'champions' too....how gay is that!
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All Torque
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On my CV I've put 'Retail stockroom and shop floor sales re-plenisher' instead of 'shelf stacker' 
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by Angie
I work in Marketing and we have "champions" instead of "poor saps roped into doing something they don't want to do" eg communication champion. Although our communication champions are all really unapproachable
oh and instead of administrators we have executives. it's all bullshit.
Sooo true mazin we have these for systems or anything down the bottom of peoples lists
HP - smoke and mirrors is used here too much aswell
Barnshaw, I will accept constructive feedback to anything I post but the words 'what a boring thread ' is a bit childish, I will reiterate the fact that if you have no interest why post at all?
I don;t go into posts about people moving house and post 'oh this is dull' what is the point?
Sam
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BarnshaW
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who's moving house
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Brett
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You guys aren't 'thinking outside of the box', i'll 'touch base with you later' and see how you're gettin on
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