New Office Buzzwords

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

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I don’t know who is worse - the people who give time to coming up with these words (Office Angels Recruitment being the culrpits) or me for repeating them here. Nevertheless they are a bit of silly and apply unfortunately to my day more often than not.

Colleagues debating why a deadline was missed and who was to blame are said to be ‘blamestorming’.

‘Boss-spasming’, means suddenly looking busy as a manager enters the room.

‘Workspace-specific perceptual abstraction’ might be more commonly known as daydreaming.

An ‘inter-departmental liaison facilitation’ is an arguably long-winded way of describing lunch.

I’ve been spinning my wheels for some time, what I need is some traction’ implies that the speaker feels they are going nowhere in their role.

Unfeasible plans or theories might be dismissed if the holder has ‘a bite of the reality sandwich’.

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One Response to “New Office Buzzwords”

  1. 0 simon

    I “like” the new word for firing. decruitment

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