LMAO!!!

I'm so glad I'm out of the office environment. I'm sad some of you have to lose an IQ point or two each day just by hearing your colleagues.

OK, it took me like 5 minutes to even understand what the heck this meant. When I see a reference to suspenders, I immediately think of http://www.suspenders.com/rainbow-mork.jpg

"We're gonna hit the ground running"

Hate it hate it hate it.

Love this thread. It's a hole in one. Hate to meditate on the subject to come up with an organic solution. Or ramp up in understanding the issue. And no, I don't have a passion to best serve our customers.

Ugh. I heard this in a meeting this week. As soon as I saw it on the powerpoint, I thought of this thread and lost focus for the remainder of the meeting.

It's weird, because "low-hanging fruit" has a fairly negative connotation in most of the corporate world I've worked in (which is nearly entirely corporate litigation, but which includes a fair share of b-school horseshit) - I can see how things like "touch base" become atrocious, but the low-hanging fruit is so weird to me.

Also "granularity" is a real issue in statistics, so it sucks that I have to find a new term for proper binning of data to offset yet more garbage b-school nonsense . . . language sucks, is what I'm trying to say.

It wasn't really negative in this context. Our division started a new team, and the presenter referred to the 'easy clients' as low hanging fruit. I just found it weird that in 25+ years, I hadn't heard that term. Now, after this thread pops up, I hear it in a meeting.

When I hear/read "low hanging fruit" I can't help thinking about...umm...genitalia.

Tri Deezy - I am so guilty of beating "hit the ground running" to death!

This is more specific to my boss, but she's got a few:

She says AH-SHAW when talking about OSHA.
She says "specificly" when she means "especially".
She says "zap" instead of "shred"...as in "can you please zap the junk mail".

It's from SWOT Analysis.. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats: Opportunities means opportunities for improvement! Opportunity to DO BETTER and fix things. In that instance, it does sound ridiculous.

Someone mentioned due diligence also. There are appropriate times to use this term such as when you are conducting risk assessments. It's way over used for situations that don't really apply too though.

I used to know someone, who would say it's all "bridge under water now" It pissed me off enough that she would even think to say "it's water under the bridge" but to mess it up... ugh..

Me- Man the company really just screwed us out of our floating holidays...

Her- There's nothing we can do, it's all bridge under water now.

Another favorite...because it just happened...lol

"Can you get this off my plate?" Okay...now I have no desire to fill out these federal documents so I can "get them off your plate." Now, chocolate cake...that I will get off your plate.:p

These are all played out in my workplace:

"push back"
"value added"
"viable"
"piggyback"
"massage this out" as in "Let's massage this idea out..." (always sound gross)
"leverage"
"conversation" as in "We need to have a conversation about XYZ."
"data dump" - just sounds so disgusting!