Most irritating buzz-words/phrases

I work with a vendor in DC whose reps all use "pull up" incessantly. This was a new one to me.
 
SkyHog said:
We were discussing this at work today, and I got a bunch of opinions on words that really irritate other people with the vagueness and buzz-wordiness.

What's yours? I'll start: "Solution."

Seriously, calling something a "Print Solution" sounds downright retarded. It can be used in almost any context:

Here's our new Network Solution.
Here's our new Software Solution.
Here's our new Telephony Solution.
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I run the I.T. Dept for a supermarket chain. Every so often I get phone calls
from sales people who must feel compelled to try to impress me with their
vast knowledge and qualifications. Every other word is some acronym or
buzz word that I've never heard of. I generally let them get all done and
then say "I don't have fricking slightest idea what you just said so I guess I
don't need whatever you're selling."
 
RogerT said:
I run the I.T. Dept for a supermarket chain. Every so often I get phone calls
from sales people who must feel compelled to try to impress me with their
vast knowledge and qualifications. Every other word is some acronym or
buzz word that I've never heard of. I generally let them get all done and
then say "I don't have fricking slightest idea what you just said so I guess I
don't need whatever you're selling."
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I love that. At my old job, I had a software vendor that would call offering some software package, and he did the same thing, but he called every month at about the same time. Every time, I'd let him finish and then say "I'm impressed by your use of acronyms. Someday, when I'm not too busy working to figure out what that meant, I might try to figure out what you're selling. But not today. Goodbye."

He never caught on.
 
I guess I still get wrankled in a minor way by;

"Hey, would you real quick (perform some action)"
(are they saying real quick to somehow minimize the effort it will require? or does it mean that it should not take much time, so don't pretend to dally?!)

Honestly though, all these phrases, when taken in perspective, are not that big-a-deal!
 
SkyHog said:
I love that. At my old job, I had a software vendor that would call offering some software package, and he did the same thing, but he called every month at about the same time. Every time, I'd let him finish and then say "I'm impressed by your use of acronyms. Someday, when I'm not too busy working to figure out what that meant, I might try to figure out what you're selling. But not today. Goodbye."

He never caught on.
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Actually it's you that never caught on to the fact that it was Jesse's friend calling just to yank your chain. :rofl:
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
I guess I still get wrankled in a minor way by;

"Hey, would you real quick (perform some action)"
(are they saying real quick to somehow minimize the effort it will require? or does it mean that it should not take much time, so don't pretend to dally?!)

Honestly though, all these phrases, when taken in perspective, are not that big-a-deal!
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What they mean, Dave, is that they want you to do it, but not to charge for doing it.
 
kevin47881 said:
low hanging fruit
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That's so popular around here that you don't even notice it anymore.

EdFred said:
RoHS

I would love for another Hitler to come around so long as he wipes out the Euro-idiots that came up with that objective.
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AMEN!!!

Jack Spectre said:
I had to look this one up, and the way it's used is technically correct, but...

metric

As in, "what metric are you using to determine the success of your test?"

Unfortunately every middle manager in my company has latched onto that word like stink on an ape.
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Your company, too?


wsuffa said:
"Close enough for government work"
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You haven't seen our state government at work. "Close enough" leaves a hole you could fly an A380 through.

Tom-D said:
"Politically correct"
"Ain't none of them ever been"
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Isn't that the truth?

Here's another form of speech that the news media in particular seems to love. "Bill Smith, he scored 2 touchdowns..." Was the pronoun necessary right after the proper name? Idiots!
 
Metric
Politically correct
dynamic (as a noun)
Duh?
I think the worse part about the whole thing is the over use by certain individuals who can't figure out the rest of us aren't laughing with them but at them.
 
...any customer service rep that stops thinking and blurts out ...

"but the computer says"....
 
Anything "process oriented". We sold our little company to AT&T who immediately sent in the thought police to get us all "bell shaped." The first program they put us through was PQMI (Process Quality Measurement Initiative) - we just called it puke-me. Every couple of years theres a new version of this that makes the rounds through the industry and at the bottom is basically the concept that we don't need competent people, just a measurable process. Puke me.
 
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