Let’s have a lunch and learn!
- Holistic
- Double Click
- Table Stakes
- Jump Ball
- Blocking & Tackling
Think out of the box
Flywheel. Stop.
We are working on a new strategy
“Lean and nimble”
“Moving with a sense of purpose”
“We’re like a family”
“Synergy”
We’re like family is a HUGE red flag for me. I had a boss use that as a selling feature to get me to work there. I had come from a place that really was like a family, a nice one, where we all really cared about each other. Turns out she meant it in the unpaid slave labour way. You can’t make a group of people a “family”, it has to grow that way Crystal. And not through pain and suffering!
“High energy multitasker”
“Detail oriented”
“Fast paced environment”
Translates to: “You will be simultaneously micromanaged and expected to know everything with no prior documentation, and you will be underpaid for your efforts. We also have no organization whatsoever :)))”
“Fast paced environment” is the one that always gets me, because that’s just explicitly admitting that their organization is a total clusterfuck but somehow this inevitably gets put in the bullet points list because some bozo apparently thinks this is a positive thing that will make people want to work wherever-it-is.
All it means is that you’d better show up wearing roller skates because management is going to expect you to be in three places at once all the time.
And fast paced environments tend to have a focus on “time-management skills.” I once interviewed at a place that was looking for someone with “excellent time management skills” because people kept going on vacation, getting back, and never being able to get caught back up with their workload because things kept being assigned to them while they were out and no one was assigned to cover for them. I felt like the manager who was interviewing me knew exactly what the real problem was.
People saying something needs to be flushed out when they really want it fleshed out.
Lmao!
I’d ask if they want me to get rid of it.
I also have a colleague who refers to Apple computers as MAC, and has at least once asked for MAC addresses of some devices when what she meant was IP addresses last associated with the devices.
I suppose it could be used in the sense of a dog flushing out game for the hunters - to make something hidden visible so it can be dealt with.
- Ideate
- Ask (noun)
- Table (verb)
Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
Does “tabling” mean putting a subject on the table or taking it off?
Depends on if you follow the British meaning or the US American one.
“That’s a big ask” drives me crazy. I’ve been hearing it everywhere lately. When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
When did ‘ask’ become a noun?
The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.
A huge ask. The biggliest ask. Sir Mixalot dreams about this ask.
The earliest known use of the noun ask is in the Old English period (pre-1150).
Tabling means to save for later. You put it in the table to deal with it another time.
So tabling it means it’s off the table?
Think of it as you’re holding a bag of groceries. You are going to put things away from the bag, but maybe some things need to go somewhere else so you pull it out of the bag and put it on the table to put it away later.
You’ve tabled it.
Is this different from putting it in the parking lot?
Yup
Lets park this discussion for now, we’ll circle back to it later.
Place I worked at some time ago made a big speech and unveiled the following company motto to a lot of confused faces: “Engagement makes awareness sustainable.”
Nice. I’ll drive alignment on this value with my directs. I’ll status you tomorrow.
I had one retail manager who constantly kept using “moving forward” for everything. It was so freaking grating!
I hate that I’ve learned to censor myself around these soulless void-skulls by replacing “problem” with “challenge.” No, I don’t “solve problems”, because to acknowledge something as a problem is negativity we just don’t need here at Emperor Clothing Inc! I “tackle challenges”!
It’s so freaking goofy and they just eat it up. Everything needs some sort of business-positive spin or they lose their minds and think you’re not being a “team player.”
Seeing opportunities everywhere. The same underlying mechanism is at work here as with challenge: Let’s replace the word for this bad thing with a different word that means something similar but positive. And then it looks like something good! I am very smart
I’ve got a manager that’s replaced problem with “opportunity to succeed”. Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed I guess.
Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed…
…but management ain’t one!
“We work hard and play hard” makes my skin crawl. Also, had a manager who would describe every situation with a war analogy. Sorry Bob, this is Finance, we’re not literally killing each other. Take it down a notch.
I work hard and I play hard. Not here to play.
Everybody dance now!
Let’s take it offline
My thoughts exactly…Every time I walk by the door that says “server room.”
“Makes you feel like character”
Yes, this movie about a billionaire with severe mental issues who lost both of his parents makes me feel like I lost my parents too.
Any talk of “we” from the boss really means “you”. It’s exceptionally maddening when the boss is already a POS who has an A+ for delegation but F- for teamwork and care factor.
Let’s circle back.
My current bugbear is “guesswork,” although in my case this is in the context of the marketing bumf that my vendors and manufacturers slather their products in.
Apparently in the corporate world, the only purpose of guesswork is to “take it out of” things. Take the guesswork out of this, take the guesswork out of that. It seems at this point you are guaranteed that any time “guesswork” appears in a sentence it’s going to be preceeded or followed by it being taken out of something, as surely as U always follows Q.
Once you notice the pattern (it doesn’t take you long if you’re sitting in my seat) the lack of originality becomes deeply irritating.
Ya why don’t they just ask for a better plan, or say some part doesn’t make sense to them. “Taking the guesswork out” to me means “I’m not convinced, go do more homework and explain this better”… Why can’t people just say that.
