Because it’s new and awful. Also implies that these massive new work is just a simple tasks. 0/10

Oh snap I should have read more comments before posting about “double clicking”. I hate it.

I’ve been hearing “velocity” a lot recently and that also makes me cringe.

Also “let’s take this offline” which just means let’s have a different meeting about it, it’ll still be online because we’re all remote.

See, I would think that would mean for more individual discussion, as in “this isn’t relevant to this meeting, why don’t you and I talk about this after the meeting or at a later point.”

I think everyone has those coworkers who see meetings as an opportunity to ask about things with no relevance to anyone else in the room and makes everybody sit through 10 minutes (per discussion) about an issue that only pertains to them, instead of just going to the manager/whatever’s office in their own time to ask about their personal situation.

If it’s just to table it until another meeting, though, that doesn’t make any sense.

The first one is an Abomination unto Nuggan. I’m OK with the second one being used in a meeting to divert a topic that needs covered but is getting off tack.

In my experience, “take this offline” means they don’t want to have the discussion in front of present company.

For example, mentioning anything less-than-ideal in a meeting in front of large groups. It’s basically a thinly veiled way to control morale through selective information.

Take it offline as in turning it off? “We’re taking the service offline” or “Let’s talk about this face to face?”

Do you have a better way to phrase it? I usually see this to mean “focus on this topic rather than get distracted. We can discuss that later” … or I guess that’s a better way to phrase it

I mean, yeah, but actually streamlining things is something I like. I work on helicoptersn so example:

Aircraft is broken because of a faulty component. So the maintainer has to go and sign on to our grossly over-bloated computer (which can take anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes to start up), look up the relevant illustrated parts breakdown and download it (because they’ve moved everything to the cloud from our previous local servers) which runs through our exceptionally bottle-necked security system (seriously, usually ~50-100kbps download on a 100Mbps connection), find the part, log into a different system to get the national standard number and see what type it is to find what system to look in to see if we have it, look up the part location. Look up the maintenance procedure card (which is not classified) from the same place as the manual, download it at 100kbps, figure out the operational check for the replaced component is not in the card but in a separate maintenance manual, go back into that system and download that manual, find the ops check. Try to print out both the card and the ops check from whatever printer wants to work today. Fill out a requisition form, grab the part, and now you can start the job. Basically, add approximately an hour of work to any task for this nonsense.

Streamlined: Have a standalone computer that is not connected to the internet, is regularly updated via approved external hard drive with the latest Maintenance Procedure Cards and manuals, pre-filled requisition forms (with locations) for parts, lists of consumable components (like gaskets) for each repair, connected to a standalone printer hardwired to the standalone computer. Pull up card, manual, form, and ops check and print in 5 minutes.

Finding time wasters that only serve to frustrate workers and finding ways to cut those time wasters out makes the workers and the managers happy, assuming the people doing the job want to do the job well and quickly (we all want to be here, so that describes our hangar deck).

I’m a fan of streamlining.

Nice. I’ll drive alignment on this value with my directs. I’ll status you tomorrow.

The only time I hear rightsizing is for cloud resources. I’ve never heard of it in human resources. That sucks.

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.

Jesus fucking Christ. This was excellently written and horribly real.

Perfect except for ‘Thoughts?’ Instead of that it should be an appeal to the speaker’s boss: ‘Chris, do you have any builds?’

There was a website at some point that would put up themed meeting phrases each week, with points if anyone used them and caught it. I still remember a few of them.

“I don’t want a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, I expect a pot of uranium.”

“We either play barbie or go home. I didn’t get come here today to be Skipper.”

“I don’t say we build a barbie dream house, I want use to build a barbie on ecstasy house.”

“Is this a queen alien problem? Or more of a face hugger we can ignore for a while?”

How do I delete someone else’s comment.

Thanks. It hit close to home. I hate it.

I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Lol

Everybody dance now!

I work hard and I play hard. Not here to play.

I had a visceral reaction to this. If you’ve heard this in real life, my deepest sympathies.

Ew.

I have to say, I have used the phrase “Drill Down” to refer to the same thing? Does it cause the same reaction?

What would a linux user say for this?
“Can we just dot slash that then chmod plus x that semicolon dot slash that for a second”

This phrase is currently running riot at my work. Leadership have just created a new “North Star” so that they can Kingdom Build and leave their mark; years of progress on other projects are being thrown on a mini-bonfire of the vanities.