Buzzwords piss me off

Sounds like you'd be excellent in Bullsh!t Bingo at a meeting, kicky, but I gotta tell ya, you're right.

Strangely enough, in public relations the first thing they tell you is to avoid all such language. Sometimes it's a little hard to get businesses to speak plain English, but there's a reason for the rule.

Kickycan, run that by me again!

Re: Buzzwords piss me off


Yes.

I have been known to laugh out loud when "hot button issues", "synergies", "think outside the box", etc., are used during a presentation/meeting. I was in a meeting the other day and a "side-bar" item came up when a manager said to me "let's talk about this off-line". Now I knew he meant let's get together later to talk about it, not hold up the meeting with this discussion ... but since when am I a cell-phone or a computer? Off-line? Why couldn't he tell me we'd talk about it after the meeting? I hear this beaut all the time and it drives me nuts.

I like to give the business elite quite a few Homer Simpson "Doh!" moments. When speaking of "networking" i use the correct term of venerable age, reticulation. If someone says they may need to downsize, i loudly ask them: "Oh, you mean you're going to lay people off of work?" It doesn't take long for people to realize their best bet is to speak plain English to me.

I hate the word "Utilize"

It sprang from business jargon, takes longer to say than "use" while meaning the same thing, and sounds dumb.

My professors use it all the time - it drives me nuts.

Another thing I can't stand is when people use nouns as verbs. Like for instance Solution. I know many people use this as a verb. Let's solution the problem rather than Let's find a solution.

In the office I also see many monkey see monkey do on buzz words. For example the Sr. VP uses certain buzz words, within a week, the VP follows suit and so forth down the line. It annoys the h*ll out of me. At least be original.

Yeah, that kiss-ass BS pisses me off to no end as well.

I'm so glad I'm not a business person - all this stuff would drive me crazy.

Of course, the artworld also has plenty of vices.

Portal that stuff drives me crazy. I like the business/financial world because I have the right mind for it - I am more logical and like things that make sense. I detest the other side of business. Trying to look better than the other person, the politics, etc. I prefer to be upfront and say, this is who I am rather than all this phony crap.

In that respect I make an awful business person because I am so likely to say something out loud when the office politics start up. I had a client call me a stupid B once (and much worse) so I hung up on her. When she complained about me to my boss, I told him he could fire me if he liked but I wouldn't take abuse from anyone, even a client. I'm pretty known for speaking my mind if someone crosses the line with me. I think some people probably can't stand me but what do I care? - my stress level is lower than theirs is. And if I DO get fired, ah well, que sera sera. I'll SUE their asses!

I think A2K is overdue for a paradigm shift.

What, no nickels?

*LOL*