Here is a good collection of workplace jargon words used by managers, check it out here <link updated to site home>
"think outside the box"
"Give it 110%"
“we need to leverage (fill in the blank)”
“let’s take this off line”
“with all due respect”
“I am not sure I have the bandwidth”
“let’s touch base on that”
"high level overview" - code for we dont know what we're talking about because we never did the low level job that actually makes the company function.
"action items" - code for more check lists to do adding to the fifty other action items that have been developed over the prior three years. Any job that requires more then 2-3 key metrics is being over analyzed, but most bosses dont want to admit it.
"conference call" - code for an organized waste of time where ten people fail to make a decision that one preson should have made in about 15 seconds.
"work it out" - code for hopefully someone else will do it.
For full list click here <link updated to site home>
From India, Mumbai
1"think outside the box"
"Give it 110%"
“we need to leverage (fill in the blank)”
“let’s take this off line”
“with all due respect”
“I am not sure I have the bandwidth”
“let’s touch base on that”
"high level overview" - code for we dont know what we're talking about because we never did the low level job that actually makes the company function.
"action items" - code for more check lists to do adding to the fifty other action items that have been developed over the prior three years. Any job that requires more then 2-3 key metrics is being over analyzed, but most bosses dont want to admit it.
"conference call" - code for an organized waste of time where ten people fail to make a decision that one preson should have made in about 15 seconds.
"work it out" - code for hopefully someone else will do it.
For full list click here <link updated to site home>
From India, Mumbai
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