Administrative buzz phrases

[lyingflatlander]

I’ve worked in healthcare for almost 30 years. Yesterday we had a pretty good chuckle session about stale overused administrative buzz words and phrases over the years. For example, “we plan to grow and retain our own talent.” Meanwhile people come and go from this place daily like an airport turnstyle. Figured this would be as good a place as any to add a few more choice words and phrases.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

"The mods are underappreciated and do great work" --- Rokslide Forum Owners...... probably lol

 

[Mattyq17]

"The best way to move up in this company is to screw up"

 

[TheTone]

“Make it happen”

Yuck, basically said when you’re already stretched and those above you want you add more to your plate

 

[BRTreedogs]

Stretch goals

 

[BRTreedogs]

What if

 

[BRTreedogs]

If I were you I already would have already had that taken care of.

 

[BRTreedogs]

It will only take a few extra minutes.

 

[wyogoat]

Stretch goals

My company has a million of these. You can always tell when some new buzz word or phrase was used at an upper level meeting because it gets used every sentence.
The last year our has been “systemically.” Gets inserted into conversations when it doesn’t make sense. I can think of a million…

 

[mustelid_master]

"Agile"
"Lets not boil the ocean"

 

[IdahoBeav]

Anything using the word "culture".

 

[Nine Banger]

"Transparency"

 

[wyogoat]

“Force multiplier” is a good one…

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

"We need you all to continue to 'lean in' and do your best work" (amid 30% staffing cuts)

"How do we get some movement on this issue"

"We can do anything given time and money"

 

[MuleyFever]

Stretch goals

I hate this one. We have goal setting at the beginning of the year and I hate it. Stretch goals, yeah lets come up with some stupid goal to distract me from doing what actually matters.

 

[AZ8]

Anything using the word "culture".

F'ing hate that word in Corporate world!

 

[Trumpkin The Dwarf]

Oh man... from my former life in tech:
1. CI/CD! We just push the button and everything updates automatically! (BTW, we still need you all to log in for 3-5 hours on production deployment night and test everything manually cause we don't want automated tests in that Prod system)
2. Automation
3. "App Modernization"... translation, we shifted org ownership to a new "high performance" manager who wants to make a name for themselves, and hired a new architect who doesn't know how to do their job. Funding will be cut by 50% to acomplish this effort

 

[Ten Bears]

"adding in (insert name) for 'visibility'"

also '360 degree' or 'downstream'

makes me irrationally angry

 

[IdahoBeav]

I hate this one. We have goal setting at the beginning of the year and I hate it. Stretch goals, yeah lets come up with some stupid goal to distract me from doing what actually matters.

Goal setting really only makes sense if it is tied directly to known-value incentive bonuses.

 

[Poser]

"Let's unpack that"