Most hated Business/IT Jargon

[FlashHarry]

Poll question: Most hated Business/IT Jargon

God, I hate this stuff....

[arwalden]

1. Those Who Use Phrases Like "Outside The Box"... Aren't.

[rock]

13. "Outside The Box".

Notice that the ones who use the phrase "Outside The Box", are the ones who built the box. Suddently they realize how stupid an idea it was, and try to compensate. Typical frightful management.

[FlashHarry]

2. Specify?

Or don't you like the term 'other?'

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. "At the end of the day"

:puke:

[FlashHarry]

4. I keep hearing 'over time,' too.

We plan on leveraging economies of scale over time. Huh?

[Nlighten1]

5. vis a vis

[zbird]

22. I vote for vis a vis also.

I had a boss who used that phrase constantly, along with "paradigm shift". I really despised that man. Mind you, this is the same person who told me a needed to be more of a prick in my management style. I always thought he was a big enough prick for the whole university, and I didn't need to be contributing to the prick attitude.

[Proletarian]

6. Autoajudicate n/t

[Birthmark]

7. Proactive.

I have an appointment scheduled later this month to swear a Holy Oath to kill the next person I hear utter that abominable word.











Just in case: I AM kidding about the killing thing.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. It's a known fact that the more often the word "proactive" is used...

...the less likely it is that the company actually IS proactive.

I hate that word with a passion. The company I work for did good work they definitely had a habit of implementing before planning.

[rock]

16. Again the case of miserable management

Proactive means even though I'm paid big bucks I haven't a clue, do you?

[trof]

9. More a political term than biz

"The FACT of the matter is..."
When I hear those words from a politician, I KNOW I'm about to be lied to.
:grr:

[lazarus]

10. synergy

Synergy has come to mean "we're a massive multinational corporation with our fingers in everything, and we'll use every part of it to advertise on every other part."

The most annoying synergy I've seen was in the NBA finals this year on ABC. Since Disney owns ABC, they spent half time of the final game talking about.....

The Hulk movie coming out. Not basketball. Not the fact that Tim Duncan was setting all kinds of records and firmly establishing himself in the pantheon of all time great players.

The Hulk.

:eyes:

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. Paradigm shift...

yeah, we're going to change our established way of thinking about things...

Pul-leeze.

Synergy makes my spine twist into knots, but Paradigm Shift fires my rage.

[LARED]

12. A few that I despise

Sweating the Assets.
Low Hanging Fruit.

[Cocoa]

43. low hanging fruit

only because it reminds me of a particular hated manager, who also liked to say "what's my greatest pain." I always wanted to answer "me kicking you in your low hanging fruit." :-)

[Catch22Dem]

14. Other: Deadline

My least favorite word in IT. LOL.

I also hate "usability" which usually means make it as FUCKING idiot proof as possible because there are a TON of idiot users out there just waiting to break it.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Build an idiot proof program and the world will present you with...

...a better idiot, every single time.

[trof]

17. Favorite quote:

"I thought this was supposed to be foolproof."
"It was until now."

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. another

never underestimate the power of human stupity...

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. Deadline sucks... but usability takes the cake.

Isn't it great to design as if your customers were excrement flinging, lice picking, primates who've never seen a computer/periperhal/software before?

[srpantalonas]

20. ROI

"We can proactively leverage our investment in existing systems and still achieve a nice ROI--that's if we synergize with our downstream chain and we get sign-off on it."

[FlashHarry]

32. LOL!!! I interviewed the CFO of Gateway Computers not too long ago...

...his whole interview sounded like that. I still don't know what the f*ck he said!

[sendero]

26. as a user interface designer....

.... I can tell you - you'll be sorry if you don't.

[Catch22Dem]

34. Aren't they? LOL

I'm only kidding. Well, sort of.

[veganwitch]

38. firm-minded

ugh!!! i heard this so much during orientation.

essentially its doing more with less people for less pay. i work for one of the most profitable law firms on the east coast and they dont want to hire new people. so the support staff (secretaries etc.) are supposed to have more than one attorney (i have two) and pick up other jobs when other secs are out.

no. ive got my own shit to do. hire a temp to answer the phones!!

[DS1]

31. waiting to break it? no, you must mean trying to break it

There's idiot users out there, they can be forgiven, it's the ones that are only happy in life complaining about something and wasting someone else's resources that need to be murdered.

[BrewerJohn]

37. We used to have deadlines

But that wasn't revoltingly suggestive enough. So now we have
"drop dead dates".

Shudder.

[htuttle]

21. Wow. I was bathed in Bogon particles as soon as I opened this thread

Went right off the meter.

[nedlogg]

23. Always hated those "motivational" posters.

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store4.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1737_4602411

[underpants]

24. "Interface"

My wife kills me with some of the ones they use at her work.

[Superfly]

25. Orientate

vs "orient"

"Let me orientate you around the office"

[Superfly]

27. Another one

"Let me caveat that by saying"
"

[Evil_Dewers]

28. I still hate...

paragidm.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. Agenda. Even my children's schools use agenda now. Grrrr. And library

is now informational center, and I am NOT to allow my kindergartener to call it library.

[RetroLounge]

30. Paradigm Shift

makes me spit bullets.

I once got so fed up with this bullshit, that I started a game of buzzword bingo. We were on a project with 5 different consulting firms, and at our status meetings each week, the managers would give us all a little speech, so we all made up bingo cards with buzzwords on them and would secretly play "Buzzword Bingo" during the meetings.

I remember the looks I got when I yelled out bingo in the middle of the meeting!

By the way, the client ended up writing off $65 million on the failed project...

[GregW]

33. "Eating our own dog food"

"Drinking our own koolaid"
"Need to put all the wood behind the arrow"
"Not factually correct" (ie a lie)
"grok"

[4_Legs_Good]

35. Human Resources

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[MaineDem]

36. quality

My company was trying so hard to win the Baldrige Award for Quality that they were trying to convince everyone that we were providing quality service. What they should have been doing was trying to actually provide the quality service.

And "proactive" would send me over the edge (it was a short trip.)

Retirement is lovely. :evilgrin:

[electricmonk]

39. Workflow

that word annoys the hell out of me. You can't get through any software sales pitch without hearing that word fifty times.

Web Economy Bullshit Generator

[rucky]

40. "Wholistic"

word prostitutes, i tell ya.

[lanlady]

41. I voted for synergy

even worse when it's used in the plural. Aaaaaaaargh. I've gone through enough mergers/acquisitions to really, really hate that word.

Also, "on the same sheet of music" and the usage of "utilize" in place of the simple word "use."

[FloridaJudy]

42. Verbing nouns and other horrors

There's a local business whose slogan is "A new way to office". That one always gets to my gag reflex.

I also grind my teeth when almost anyone except a mathematician uses the word "parameter" ("we need to network on the interface of our parameters" --- Aaarrghhh!)

"Mission Statement". This isn't NASA, for crying out loud! It's the local Public Health Department; all we're trying to do is keep people from getting sick.

And that memo I got saying "Let's get proactive about high-level wellness!"? I sent that right back with "What's wrong with good health?" scrawled across it in red magic marker.

[inthecorneroverhere]

44. outsourcing

n/t