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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #800 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:00:14 am »
[…] no one in the fat east can pronounce.

Sumo wrestlers?

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #801 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:07:37 am »
Super excited and incredibly passionate about my best bit of management speak I have ever heard. "Lets put that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later" ;D
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #802 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:10:05 am »
In this case HealthCare, as distinct from healthcare, is a brand name adopted as part of a big rebranding "spin" (which is a word they're using as short for "spin off"; "Work on the spins is progressing well")
Rubbish brand name of course, if you want any kind of trade mark. The idea of a trade mark is to be distinctive. If you just use any kind of descriptive word, even violating the odd rule of grammar to make your version a bit different does not constitute "distinctive".

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #803 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:21:57 am »
Super excited and incredibly passionate about my best bit of management speak I have ever heard. "Lets put that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later" ;D

That literally sounds like something I might say.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #804 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:37:28 am »
Super excited and incredibly passionate about my best bit of management speak I have ever heard. "Lets put that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later" ;D

That literally sounds like something I might say.
Usefully ambiguous. Noted for consideration or dismissed?
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #805 on: 20 July, 2022, 09:44:53 am »
Super excited and incredibly passionate about my best bit of management speak I have ever heard. "Lets put that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later" ;D

That literally sounds like something I might say.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #806 on: 20 July, 2022, 10:45:01 am »
Super excited and incredibly passionate about my best bit of management speak I have ever heard. "Lets put that in the ideas fridge and snack on it later" ;D

That literally sounds like something I might say.

Well it's always nice to run things up the flagpole with someone singing from the same hymnsheet ;)
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #807 on: 20 July, 2022, 11:27:23 am »
the fat east can pronounce.

I think you'll find that is west.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #808 on: 21 August, 2022, 08:24:37 am »
Dilbert for today, Sunday 21 August 22 says it all:  https://dilbert.com/   - just missing "the low hanging fruit"  ;D

[Scott Adams the Dilbert creator worked for AT&T - so did I back in the 80s/early 90s - it really was like that!]

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #809 on: 21 August, 2022, 09:16:49 am »
"... super excited ..." really drives me up the wall.  It's not just management bullshit and sales geek waffle, it's also now spawned all over YouTube (and presumably other social media platforms) spouted by otherwise the most innocuous of influencers and vloggers.

I wanted to find a help vid on Vaillant boiler codes and the otherwise presentable boiler engineer was super excited to share with me what those codes mean and ...

The only bit of management speak I can think of to describe these unthinking idiots is,

  🤬🤬🤬🤬 !!!

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #810 on: 21 August, 2022, 09:26:19 am »
Everything is “super” these days :(  Mountain stages of the Tour are always super hard but the winner is always super happy.  Even the native English speakers do it.  It almost makes one nostalgic for the era when CP Sagan only knew one English word :demon:
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #811 on: 21 August, 2022, 09:43:36 am »
It's a known linguistic process whereby adverbs of reinforcement become weaker over time, so need replacing.
happy > very happy > very, very happy > extremely happy > super happy >>>
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #812 on: 21 August, 2022, 10:12:14 am »
What is this, "happy" of which you speak?
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #813 on: 21 August, 2022, 01:00:01 pm »
I’m a super-user. Using it makes me super-happy.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #814 on: 21 August, 2022, 03:22:26 pm »
Email reponse from BT re digital phone system on my Business Broadband account being very flakey . . .

Hi Robert,
 
I really appreciate you taking the time to reach out.  As far as I’m aware this is not a know issue.
 
Can you confirm that you have been using the most up to date version of the app? Could you also provide the following details please and I can look into this:
 
1.Your Account username
2. Your Service ID
3. Detail Description of the issue
4. Device name
5. App version
6. Screen shot of the actual error/issue
7. Share LOG file
 
Thanks,
Mel


Me replying: 

Thanks for the reply (I didn't "reach out" - I sent an email!!)
 
My BT Account Name is
. . ..  etc for all the info (that they already have from my phone number)

Where do they get all this crap?

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #815 on: 21 August, 2022, 11:56:20 pm »
Everything is “super” these days :(  Mountain stages of the Tour are always super hard but the winner is always super happy.  Even the native English speakers do it.  It almost makes one nostalgic for the era when CP Sagan only knew one English word :demon:

For sure...

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #816 on: 06 September, 2022, 05:54:13 pm »
Not so much Management Speak, well.... I suppose it is.....
I had an appointment at Barclay's Bank today to sort out lasting power of attorney details for my Mum's affairs.
Not an entirely unpleasant process, at the end of which the woman I had the appointment with gave me her business card.
I note that on it, her position is given as that of Moment Banker.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #817 on: 06 September, 2022, 06:36:40 pm »
Something to do with leverage?

Otherwise it sounds like a FriendFace feature...

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #818 on: 06 September, 2022, 06:47:50 pm »
As in moments of inertia?
I hadn't thought of that.
Good call.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #819 on: 06 September, 2022, 06:50:59 pm »
Oh, it's worse than that.  It appears to be marketing speak for "any non-trivial interaction with your bank":

https://www.barclays.co.uk/moments/

Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #820 on: 06 September, 2022, 06:54:33 pm »
 :sick:

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #821 on: 06 September, 2022, 08:41:44 pm »
After a they've been in that role for a while and met their KPIs, they get promoted to Magic Moment Banker.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David created an inspirational song for them.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #822 on: 27 October, 2022, 01:38:39 pm »
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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #823 on: 21 November, 2022, 01:11:34 pm »
Thought shower.

In my world a shower is either for washing yourself or, a term of abuse " that organisation are an absolute shower".

Not an ideas generating process.

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Re: more insane management speak phrases
« Reply #824 on: 21 November, 2022, 01:13:56 pm »
I suppose that one's come about by analogy from "baby shower". That in itself is enough to condemn the phrase.
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