Can we ban this phrase?

I’m losing the will to live

Are you just running this idea up the flagpole to see who salutes it?

Well it is the Apprentice tonight.

You need to start considering the big picture here and think outside the box.

Blue sky thinking is really the only way to move forward.

first with the ringfencing this time:

We had big picture, blue sky thinking and move forward all within about 10 minutes yesterday 😥

Just so long as “lessons have been learned”

lets

that

You’re not by any chance posting from the DMBinS conference?

I hear “going forward” a lot here, in relation to what we’re going to do next. As opposed to what, fixing something in the past? Did time start flowing in multiple directions when I wasn’t looking? Are you The Doctor?

I’m happy you needed to touch base with us all to ensure we were all singing from the same hymn sheet.

These very words were used by an planning officer from Orkney on the phone this morning.

It’s better than moving backwards, isn’t it?

As opposed to what

To be fair, often it is a polite way of saying ‘stop fannying around and get to the next item so we can get out of this meeting’ and as such is quite useful.

I had this gem in an email the other day.

This is an exciting development as I think it finally gives us cross division visibility of all in flight initiatives; provides a vehicle for us to review improvement suggestions from the team and demonstrate our progress throughout the year.

I replied asking when we’d bought an airline. Ever the diplomat, me.

Synergise.

Annoyingly we have a reporting system that is based around a program called Synergy. It leads to much grinding of teeth…

^^^ that Unicorn has a swastika arm band… What’s with that?

To be fair, often it is a polite way of saying ‘stop fannying around and get to the next item so we can get out of this meeting’ and as such is quite useful.

To be fair! To be fair, to be fair, to be fair.

To Be Fair.

Ngggggrrrhhhhh!

I think it may just be me – but I always think, what? was I being unfair. No I wasn’t!

To be fair, progressing this by moving forward into blue sky thinking is water off a duck’s back by comparison.

was at some informal staff jobby the other week where we had to introduce ourselves and say what we did. One guy actually said he was ‘a creative’.

also he had a face like a cartoon character.

It is even worse when preceded with “We are where we are. Now we have to concentrate on ……..”

No f**cking sh*t Sherlock.

It is then usually followed by some mumbo jumbo about transparency. Obviously so we don’t end up being where we are again.

Don’t forget to pick the low hanging fruit first…..!

It’s a rainbow fire breathing mythical beast… Of course it’s a nazi, who else would invent such a thing? hmmmmmmm? the Hare-Krishna?

You can’t move forward without a strategy.

You can’t strategise without recognising the need to move forward. Ad nauseam. 🙄

Cougar – Moderator
I had this gem in an email the other day.

This is an exciting development as I think it finally gives us cross division visibility of all in flight initiatives; provides a vehicle for us to review improvement suggestions from the team and demonstrate our progress throughout the year.
I replied asking when we’d bought an airline. Ever the diplomat, me.

That’s good!

The one that currently irritates me is the infectious spread of the word “outcome”.

“I’ll reach out to him”

errgh

‘Going forward’ = I have no idea how to fix the problems and issues we are currently experiencing, so lets ignore them for a while and fantasize about an impossible, bright new future.

Always liked ‘eat your own dog food’ – heard it years ago before the management speak paradigm shift had been fully embraced by the early adopters.

Upon being given a task by our higher management, my immediate boss actually said, ‘well we’ve been given this monkey, let’s cage it and get it to the zoo’. I almost laughed my tea up through my nose.

Oh, and ‘socialising’ information, idiots.

pedroball – Member
“I’ll reach out to him”

errgh

read as i’ll give him a reach round.

Can we keep going forward please?

And i agree with To be fair – i fooking hate that phrase, it annoys me, along with “do you know what im saying?” and innit.

well we’ve been given this monkey, let’s cage it and get it to the zoo

LOL 😀

i’m going to use that.

I work within and Arts organisation and so am mercifuly free from corporate bullshit bingo. My GF works for a very large NGO and oh my god, I have no idea what goes on there, all of her meetings sound excrutiating.

Annoyingly we have a reporting system that is based around a program called Synergy. It leads to much grinding of teeth…

Seadog, I take it you work for S club?

Upon being given a task by our higher management, my immediate boss actually said, ‘well we’ve been given this monkey, let’s cage it and get it to the zoo’.

I once heard a hot-shot new senior sales manager come out in a meeting with, “just to chuck another **** on the woodpile…” which went down exceptionally well with the predominantly Asian company owners and management board who were all present. Fastest career suicide ever.

agreed!

There’s 2 versions of “going forward”. One is basically a pause in the sentence, just a slightly more wordy way of going “durrrrrr”. But it’s not as bad as the other one, which means “I will now ignore everything that you just said”.

I have just been taken out of a ringfence 😆 the only thing our management excell at is talking bobbins.

While we were in the ringfence an e mail came round saying we should not use certain words and phrases one of which was ringfence 🙄

Dusty in here…. Grrr!

Does this talk to the granularity?

Could be worse, you could be in the education world.

T.L.A. everywhere.

🙄