Corporate Speak

[wart57]

We need to keep issue x from radaring. -

I'm having a hard time believing that people actually say that.


/never worked corporate

I have already heard it twice today.

[wart57]

Somebody checked snopes first, right? That was real?

Yes, it was posted on his company intranet blog. I keep checking the corporate directory to see if he's still here.

This does not surprise me at all. I have head bosses say similar things in meetings, we maybe not the India and China thing, but we are always being to told to work "harder" on something. I prefer to work smarter.

[Jocephus]

i have a 1 hour meeting with someone from the pappas consulting group next thursday...i hope its as entertaining as office space

[Freed Roger]

Just think of the money corporations and institutions could save and pass on to consumers/taxpayers if they'd quit hiring useless consultants.

(have friends who have worked as consultants - jeesh. What a gravy train that is.)

[Jocephus]

i'm not sure what to expect from the meeting. i'm not nervous about losing my job or anything (i will be if the gov't defunds the pell grant which i think is a real possibility). this is for the university, i believe everyone will be going through it. we hired a new president last july and he's trying to see how the university can be more efficient. my father works with him/is in his inner circle so i do believe its genuine but i can't help and be a little wary. they sent us 10 questions to answer a few weeks ago and they were so ambiguous and filled with corporate speak i couldn't help but laugh at it and get annoyed (and think of this thread).

[Freed Roger]

Consultants make a living of doing corporate-speak with a client reimbursed expense account.

that said, Joce I wouldn't go into the meeting with expectations and attitude like I have about them. I'm sure they are accustomed to everyone being skeptical about them and whatever their purpose is. So ignore all of what's been said.

[IMADreamer]

how do you become a consultant? I need a nice cushy job.

[Freed Roger]

how do you become a consultant? I need a nice cushy job.

For 100K (plus expense reimbursement), you can hire me as consultant on how to become a consultant.

[Radbird]

This job was posted on our website today: Ethical Hacker / Penetration Tester

I might just apply for that one.

[JL21]

That could be an awesome job or a horrible job.

The latest I've been hearing in graphic design speak is referring to stuff as "horsey". If a typeface is too big or too bold, or if a design element is too big, it's "horsey".

It's incredibly [expletive] stupid. In fact, it's so stupid that I can only assume that it derived with a few of my co-workers, because I can't imagine anyone else using it.