If you've worked in a large company...

[petersLUFC]

http://www.dack.com/web/bulls*it.html



link censored...but i'm sure you can work it out

Edited by petersLUFC on Friday 27th November 13:12

[TankRizzo]

Buzzword for our company at the moment is "wallet", as in "we must increase our share of wallet this year".

Makes me want to punch babies when I hear it.

[Soir]

blue sky thinking

white belt/black belt (6 sigma - never understood why they need levels of martial arts as a marker?)

[clonmult]

petersLUFC said:

moving forward.....

Think outside the box....

due dilligence......

key performance indicators (KPI's....if anyone was wondering, i once asked the same question )

BINGO! Used to play buzzword bingo on occasion, as well as that fantastically entertaining pastime where you plant made up buzzwords with a manager and try to get him to bring it up in a meeting.

And I think i should give up on life - I used granular in a conversation yesterday (the interface isn't sufficiently granular to support what you require).

[Kermit power]

I tend to cringe at many of these when I hear them...

Until I see them written down on a website like that with someone taking a whole sentence to explain the meaning behind a single word. It may be an annoying, made-up-by-Americans word, but it is just a single word (or short phrase) which takes the place of a much more convoluted use of generic English.

Rock vs hard place.

[Bing o]

Gentleman, can we move this thread to the parking lot whilst we take a helicopter view?

[JCB123]

Bing o said:

Gentleman, can we move this thread to the parking lot whilst we take a helicopter view?

That was the favourite of that twunt on that sainsburys programme........fking helicopter view!

[petersLUFC]

I vaguely recalled Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey being particular good at these.... i recalled correct

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098781/quotes

"There is just something I'd like to pop into your percolator, see if it comes out brown. "