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Mr Larrington

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #825 on: 21 November, 2022, 01:37:19 pm »
A shower is something you'd prefer not to ride a bike or go for a walk in.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #826 on: 21 November, 2022, 01:43:09 pm »
A shower is something you'd prefer not to ride a bike or go for a walk in.
That depends. Doing those things in thought can be quite pleasant, either in anticipation or in recollection of the physical activity, but doing them in a baby would be just weird!
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #827 on: 21 November, 2022, 02:04:33 pm »
I've just got in from riding a bike in one.  Not something I want to repeat any time soon.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #828 on: 21 November, 2022, 04:11:12 pm »
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Thought shower.
... a term of abuse " that organisation are an absolute shower".
I think perhaps that's a very concise and near perfect description of the outcome of the "process".  It may help you to add, sotto voce naturally, the coda, "...of shit." every time it is used.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #829 on: 04 December, 2022, 12:40:33 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/may-i-have-a-word-about-never-cursing-your-alarm-clock-again-its-an-opportunity

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“We need to map the current as is position and produce a value proposition. This will be designed for proactive application seeking a holistic approach with buy in from stakeholders. We need to understand the potential interface with existing IT and seek approval to escalate through appropriate change control procedures so that deliverables are approved by identifying high level requirements to high level support and limit the impact of slippage through robust contingency planning.”

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #830 on: 04 December, 2022, 03:23:43 pm »
Bingo \o/
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #831 on: 04 December, 2022, 05:30:20 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/may-i-have-a-word-about-never-cursing-your-alarm-clock-again-its-an-opportunity

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“We need to map the current as is position and produce a value proposition. This will be designed for proactive application seeking a holistic approach with buy in from stakeholders. We need to understand the potential interface with existing IT and seek approval to escalate through appropriate change control procedures so that deliverables are approved by identifying high level requirements to high level support and limit the impact of slippage through robust contingency planning.”
Sorry, but compared to a lot of management speak I've encountered that's a model of lucidity.
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #832 on: 22 January, 2023, 09:40:35 am »
“Incremental” seems to be getting used to mean “the sort of thing we wouldn’t usually manage”. In my previous career it meant “worthy but not exciting”. I’m sure an incremental improvement isn’t supposed to be the sort of thing a visionary CEO talks about at length.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #833 on: 25 January, 2023, 01:35:16 pm »
"We have a high level of confidence that we can outturn the expect end of year target."

 :sick:

Not sure I've come across this use of "outturn" before. I'm not a fan.

My edit:
"We are confident we can achieve our end-of-year target."
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #834 on: 25 January, 2023, 01:48:14 pm »
Outturned nice again.
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citoyen

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #835 on: 25 January, 2023, 05:33:01 pm »
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #836 on: 25 January, 2023, 05:44:41 pm »
Is it a misspelling of "outrun" for one of those targets that changes if you're in danger of meeting it?

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #837 on: 03 February, 2023, 09:32:47 pm »
Today was the day of my annual review, where judgement is pronounced upon my ineptitude and misfeasance by my overlord and stern mistress boss. As she completed the itemization of my many crimes she launched the good ship of my future development plans, a ship that to date has enjoyed all the glories of the Titanic. You should seriously consider doing an MBA, said she. I'm not joking, she added. But miss, said I, I have a core of boiling cynicism, churning away like an untended nuclear reactor.

I suspect this is mostly in response to the fact I wrote 'anything but your job' in that section.

Give me a couple of years and I'm going to rule this topic.

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #838 on: 03 February, 2023, 09:40:08 pm »
"We have a high level of confidence that we can outturn the expect end of year target."

 :sick:

Not sure I've come across this use of "outturn" before. I'm not a fan.

My edit:
"We are confident we can achieve our end-of-year target."

Is that like the Titanic trying to out turn an ice berg?

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #839 on: 29 January, 2024, 01:30:13 pm »
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Nowhere in all that word soup does it actually say what it is that they want us to do or to not do.

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So not only are they not telling us what they want us to do or not do, but they have cocked up the way that we can or can't get to the electronic form that allows us to confirm that we are doing or not what they want us to do or not do.

Obviously we are more likely to get into trouble for not signing the declaration than we are for doing or not doing whatever it is that they want us do or not do.
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