Quick hits -- I'll give YOU a quick hit if you use this again. (Or low-hanging fruit, either. Really ? Have you seen a lot of mango trees at YOUR office lately ? No -- I thought not.)
Amazing -- I am so sick of this word and it's partially my fault. Damn you, reality television ! (I'm looking straight at you, you so-called "Real" housewives. Pssht. Real, my left hind fanny.)
Rock Star -- as in "you're my rock star". No. I'm not. I'm the grunt that gets it done for about a tenth of the money you would have to pay anyone else.
Outrageous -- why ? Why do things have to be "outrageous" ? (Or "extreme", for that measure ?) Why isn't it enough just to have normal things ?
Bandwidth -- I am not a network pipe. I am a people.
Circle back -- because we are all pioneers in our wagons. Oh, suuuure. Mmmhmm.
Resource -- when used in conversations that involve actual human beings. This is only slightly more demeaning than the term FTE, which enjoyed its glory days in the late 80's. Criminy -- you are talking about colleagues, employees, "associates", "members", technicians, people, anything but a word also used to describe unsmelted ore. I am a unique little snowflake with very specific talents, I am not a cog in the machine.
Update -- had to add "take it to another level". I have somewhere you can take this. It's that big trash bin over there.
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3 comments:
No, dear ... you ARE a network pipe.
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Boil the ocean
I'm sure I'll think of more
Oh and "slaughter the sacred cow"! That's our latest one. Of course you could say "change the status quo" but that wouldn't offend people now would it.
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