your favourite office chat

come on now, we've all heard that, and none of us loves it. but you can't avoid it. a few months in a corporate environment and you start talking like that. when i catch myself doing this, i laugh at myself though. here are a few favourites, from an online article on the topic:

1. "When I worked for Verizon, I found the phrase going forward to be more sinister than annoying. When used by my boss - sorry, "team leader" - it was understood to mean that the topic of conversation was at an end and not be discussed again."

2. "My employers (top half of FTSE 100) recently informed staff that we are no longer allowed to use the phrase brain storm because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. We must now take idea showers. I think that says it all really."

3. At my old company (a US multinational), anyone involved with a particular product was encouraged to be a product evangelist. And software users these days, so we hear, want to be platform atheists so that their computers will run programs from any manufacturer."

4. "Incentivise is the one that does it for me."

5. "My favourite which I hear from the managers at the bank I work for is let's touch base about that offline. I think it means have a private chat but I am still not sure."

6. "Have you ever heard the term loop back which means go back to an associate and deal with them?"

read the rest of them and the full article here