Administrative buzz phrases

[huntnidaho]

"Net-new Logo" - in reference to a sale or deal with a new customer. That one made my skin crawl for whatever reason.

Also, the head-scratching event of "promoting" an individual to essentially the same job they were doing but slapping a new title on it such as "team lead", "senior <xyz>", "account manager > account exec", and so on..

 

[full choke]

 

[menhaden_man]

How about signing your email with ‘cheers’ and your initials?

Pretty sure that required a PhD.

 

[COJoe]

How about signing your email with ‘cheers’ and your initials?

Pretty sure that required a PhD.

We have an IT Engineer that signs, Best then his name! Best what? Is it hoping for the best, I don't understand it.

 

[EastHumboldt]

Be best

 

[dirtshooter]

Couldn't wait to the end to say this so if it's a repeat it's needed.

"I'll teams you"

God damn no don't teams me

 

[StuckoYota99]

This year we have an owner/management transition so I'm hearing a lot of buzz words and motivational stuff that makes all the guys roll their eyes. "What is the culture we want in the company"
"We need to add value to our work"

Also we are using AI to generate our advertising/social media.

 

[StuckoYota99]

Couldn't wait to the end to say this so if it's a repeat it's needed.

"I'll teams you"

God damn no don't teams me

Whenever I request information and they tell me "it's on teams" I want to spike my phone
Into the ground

 

[flathead#2]

I agree on the TEAMS comment. When did an email, text or phone call become obsolete?
Enough with the Teams stuff, I despise it.

And, "It's all OUR work", not hers, his or yours. - From the one who never helped anybody
do anything.

 

[TxxAgg]

I also hate Teams…

 

[flathead#2]

I'm now retired but seemed like EVERYBODY thought TEAMS was the grandest thing ever.
Thought i was the only one who hated it.

 

[timbernomad]

"grit"

 

[InkedElkSlayer]

Pause
Pivot
Lean into it
Transparency
Deliberate
Glidepath

My favorite, when someone refers to themselves, “as leadership”…
“As leadership, after the pause, we need to deliberately lean into it transparently until it’s time to pivot to the glidepath of our transition to the new team of leaders.”

Another great one… portfolio. A senior leader may not know shit about anything, but they have (blank) “in their portfolio”.

 

[Pharmseller]

Cross-functional account management.





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[Rockinova]

"Let's have a brief meeting"... no let's effing not, because it won't be brief.
"Mission critical"..
Org chart
"You <insert job title du jour> are the most important part of the company"
"That's a great question..." translates loosely to: "i don't know, but I'm formulating a nice pile of bs to sling ya"

 

[dirtshooter]

100%
Absolutely
Path forward
Execution
Team



I actually just hate this guy at work who uses those words far too often.

We call him dump bear because he eats other people's lunches and when he's walking through offices we wonder if he's looking for a picnic basket.

 

[StuckoYota99]

Interdepartmental communication

 

[WhatToHunt]

"Thought leader" or "thought leadership". Not used as much as it was a few years ago, but good grief it drove me nuts. This video always helped me get through those times:

 

[rookieforever33]

A "high level explanation "= give me very little info so I can pretend to know everything about it

A "high level estimate"= give me a number we are going to hold you to even though nobody knows how much work this is going to take

A "pain point" = we screw this up every time and dont know how to fix it

"Thats a great point, let me talk it over with my team and get back to you" = I dont have a good rebuttal for your correct argument so I am going to walk away and not ever talk about this again

 

[bigbassin]

Administrative speak doesn’t bother me, the inaction that follows it does.

I.e. I bet I say “I’ll circle back with you” 10 times a day but I’ll actually try to circle back with you by the end of the day with an answer, and if I don’t have an answer yet I’ll let you know what avenues I’m going through to look into it. If the phrase gets used to me and I haven’t been circled back with in 48 hours, you better believe “I’m following up per our conversation”.