I found this in Radar, one of the supplements found in Wednesday's Sydney Morning Herald Working in the corporate world I hear this sort of thing a lot, and pray that if God really is merciful, that those that utter this sort of thing go straight to hell, along with boy bands and Saddam.
Robert: I keep hearing about people who will talk to certain topics- for example-"We've just released the annual report and Joe will talk to that later" If Joe is going to talk to a stack of paper, he's clearly deranged.
Anon: The one management term that drives me insane is granular. Terms of user: 1. We ned more granularity or 2. We need to be more.less granular.
Ian: At every meeting the staff would write down the boss's boring buzz words. His favourite was "cascade your key learnings to all the stakeholders and seek a new paradigm"
Buzzwordssuck: Someone wanted to know how busy I was. They asked "How's your bandwidth today?"
Phil: Pushing the envelope pisses me off. And the government minister who referred to people killed in the Bali bombings as "non-survivors".
Dave; Management jargon is the corporate equivalent of the bird flu. Can a cure be found? hard to say- the whole issue needs more workshopping to come up with an action plan on how to move forward.
