 EGeezerSummertimePremium
join:2002-08-04
Midwest
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 ·Callcentric
| On the lighter side - corporate buzzwords Ah, this brings back memories of Monday morning staff meetings, Project rollout sessions and Friday lunch executive pep talks to the company cube rats in the cafeteria. This is the stuff that inspired bullshit bingo.
The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it.
If you have to ask why, chances are you’ve fallen under the poisonous spell of business jargon. ...
Enjoy, and feel free to recount your favorites. |
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 The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
join:2001-08-09
Denver, CO | Visibility
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Deployment
Greenfield - Can someone tell me what the fuck is wrong with 'test'?
Legacy - Can someone tell me what the fuck is wrong with 'obsolete'?
Most of the terms in ITIL
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Funny thing is, I use a bunch of them myself... I need a better thesaurus.
Thanks for the smile of the day EGeezer!
Regards |
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EGeezerSummertimePremium
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| I was blessed with a wonderful business communications teacher my senior year of college.
It was during the time of the Watergate hearings when obfuscation, cliches and wordiness was "in style". She made damned sure we didn't write that crap, focusing instead on brevity, clarity, organization and accuracy.
I still consider Strunk's Elements of Style to be useful. |
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | reply to EGeezer
I hear my wife use these, I mock her. She gets offended. |
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC | reply to EGeezer
We used to have a Buzz Words Bingo template generator we'd run before meetings.
We'd take them with us and highlight the words and yell out bingo when we won. Usually made everyone else in the room concerned. |
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 HallPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
kudos:1 | reply to EGeezer
I always made EVERY effort to NOT use them in reports or anything I had to write. |
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 CabalPremium
join:2007-01-21
Austin, TX | reply to EGeezer
Some of them were buzzy, but scalability and best practices? Really?
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 ModusI hate smartassery on forumsPremium
join:2005-05-02
us | reply to EGeezer
Hey guys don't forget to do those stupid hand gestures alongside those buzzwords 
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 tekmunkiTekmunkiPremium
join:2001-12-06
Lake City, FL | reply to EGeezer
Someone asked me to buy a virtual mouse today, because they wanted to virtualize their desktop. I think they assumed it was some kind of VR helmet.
virtualize
cloud
spectrum
___ analysis ( I swear we had minutes from a meeting that read "bathroom analysis" as a talking point)
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 drewAutomaticPremium
join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
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said by Cabal:Some of them were buzzy, but scalability and best practices? Really?
In any kind of enterprise environment, you better be looking at those two things extensively.
Project management is, usually, a joke.
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Cloud, borderless, and virtualize are three that kill me every time. |
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 The XPremium
join:2001-10-29
El Monte, CA
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Anything that includes "the Cloud".
I have also grown to hate skill set and empower the users. |
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 DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | Come on empower that user...
... to do himself harm. |
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 JTCAlways Mount A Scratch Monkey
join:2002-01-09
USA | reply to EGeezer
We just had someone in corporate decide that renaming one of our platforms to include 'as a service' in the acronym was a good idea...
shudder
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The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
join:2001-08-09
Denver, CO | reply to tekmunki
This is a good word. A VERY good word. Virtualization, when implemented to the best of its ability, is going to change corporate living and environmental health tremendously to the better.
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EGeezerSummertimePremium
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| said by The Dv8or:Virtualization, when implemented to the best of its ability, is going to change corporate living and environmental health tremendously to the better. I agree 110 percent. Virtualization is definitely a win-win solution that will create a massive paradigm shift, leveraging dollar resources to create value and empowering our "Big C Customers" to take their businesses to the next level. |
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Green (anything), especially in IT -- it uses power, it uses rare earth metals that can kill you,
what's so [bleeping] green about that?!
Regards |
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 JRW2R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, Max and Zen.Premium
join:2004-12-20
La La Land
kudos:5 | reply to EGeezer
We've all heard the terms "Outsourcing" and "ON Shoring", but my company just hit me with a new one, "Near Shoring".....
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said by The Dv8or:This is a good word. A VERY good word. Virtualization, when implemented to the best of its ability, is going to change corporate living and environmental health tremendously to the better. True. What is scary is when someone at the top gets barraged with this term and has no idea what it means.
"IT, Virtualize our environment!"
"Ok, it will cost X."
"What?! This is supposed to save us money rabble rabble rabble."
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