Corporate Speak Thread_2024-01_Finalv11-GB.PPTX

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  1. slogan119

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    It’s also important to consider if sales come from recurring business and/or customers, or are one-time sales.
     
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  2. leroi

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    good for you, War Grundle
     
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  3. og

    og ready to party? by party I mean smoke cigarettes
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    Stakeholders
     
  4. og

    og ready to party? by party I mean smoke cigarettes
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    I don’t understand how you be foreign and work in corporate America.... so many idioms.
     
  5. spagett

    spagett Got ya, spooked ya
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    Upward mobility
     
  6. Joe_Pesci

    Joe_Pesci lying dog-faced pony soldier
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    Sounds like someone's personal culture needs to be more inclusive
     
  7. War Grundle

    War Grundle Nole Mercy
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    That’s good knowledge.
     
  8. Ty Webb

    Ty Webb Living rent free in Jigga's head
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    “Putting the carrot before the stick”
     
  9. BayouMafia

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    non-business but the recent season of the Dissect podcast was on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and he kept playing a soundbite from an interview in which she said, "I couldn't see my hand in spite of my face"

    I was a high degree of triggered
     
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  10. Sub-Zero

    Sub-Zero ALL THE TOSTITOS!!!
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  11. Pharm

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    What the fuck is agile and what do I need to look out for while running a team.
     
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  12. Long Ball Larry

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    “Level set” is a term that’s being thrown around more these days at my company. Level set these nuts.
     
  13. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    My company has two different types of software engineers. One group uses agile, the other doesn’t.

    The group the uses agile sucks complete ass and the group that doesn’t is good.

    That’s all I have
     
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  14. Pharm

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    I'm about to be assigned a team and trained in agile. From what I have gathered it's a lot of running around from one side to another
     
  15. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    I have no clue what it is. I just yell when they don’t have stuff done on time and they make it happen.

    It’s like they don’t read schedules. I hate them
     
  16. Pharm

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    It's what my company likes and the VP requested two new people to run a team and I was suggested so seems like a good way to ride up the corporate ladder if Im good at it.
     
  17. slogan119

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    Valuable skill. I’m trying to read up on it and develop myself. Basically a way of managing projects by breaking them down into smaller tasks to speed up project completion, and getting as quickly as possible to a minimum viable product.
     
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  18. Pharm

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    I was given the option to do this(only 2 spots available out of about 20 rph on my team) or transition to a more job that is more structured and monotonous. I like to do things myself so this will be a challenge for me
     
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  19. Gonff

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    We use agile to just have iterative releases, faster turnarounds, etc. Reduces the amount of time wasted trying to get signoff on a change or new feature
     
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  20. Joe_Pesci

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    It's basically iterative development. Big things are broken down into smaller things to be done in short (2 weeks) periods of time. If you're looking at something that's going to take longer than 2 weeks, break it down more.

    This is in contrast to "waterfall," where you have a big project, work on it for a long time, and then submit everything at the end.

    Be prepared to learn to learn a bunch of vocabulary. Also somehow you're supposed to estimate the difficulty of a task relative to other tasks, rather than in terms of how long it's going to take.
     
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  21. $P1

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    good project managers never need work
     
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  22. Marbles

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    Just had a meeting with my supervisors where they both contradicted each other and back tracked on what they told me and basically explained I’m not doing well at my job. Not because my results aren’t good( I’m ahead of schedule and on pace for a 50 percent increase from last year) but because I’m not documenting my outline for what I’m doing and not following the plan of my supervisor ( who failed his goal last year by 30 percent and still fell upwards). I’m just at an absolute lose. I asked if I failed at anything. They told me no. That in fact I’ve exceeded everything. But it’s just not the way they want because it’s different from what they are used to. End of vent.
     
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  23. Boo MFer!

    Boo MFer! No longer a cog in some powerhouse machine
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    Do you work at SVR?
     
  24. Corch

    Corch My son got the Denver Nuggets jeans
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    In the top five all time worst corporate jargon
     
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  25. Boo MFer!

    Boo MFer! No longer a cog in some powerhouse machine
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    Deep dive
    Level set
    Take it offline
    Bandwidth
    Fully baked
     
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  26. Corch

    Corch My son got the Denver Nuggets jeans
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    Slide deck is in there somewhere
     
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  27. Shawn Hunter

    Shawn Hunter Vote Corey Matthews for Congress
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    Sounds like you work for retards.
     
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  28. Where Eagles Dare

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    Replying to Email

    ++xyz person


    That's all
     
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  29. tjsblue

    tjsblue I was right at the time
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    “This message is marked urgent”. I have never had a reason to mark anything urgent in my career.
     
  30. slogan119

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    There is no such thing as an urgent email. Period.
     
  31. Koby Salman

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    If you're interviewing for a job internally do you wear a suit? Especially if you know the hiring manager and she sits 30 feet away from you, and you see her multiple times a day and say hi to her.
     
  32. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    Express dress shirt/no tie/crisp undershirt showing IYAM
     
  33. Doc Louis

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    First day in training be sure to ask "which is better scrum or kanban?" And just watch the jargon get spewed out.
     
  34. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    This cock bag I work with sends read receipts 50% of the time. If I open it from my iPhone does it send one?
     
  35. Simon Templar

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    Absolutely. The competition will.
     
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  36. mizz1439

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    Carrot and stick

    “Mizz1439, if they’re unwilling to bite at your carrot approach I’m willing to come in and be the stick so you don’t disrupt your working team relationship”
     
  37. DriveByBBQ

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    “Horse trading” was a good one I heard the other day. Seriously, I think that’s a cool idiom in the proper context.
     
  38. slogan119

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    Yes and here’s why - if there is an outside candidate, they’ll get credit for being in a suit and you won’t. It may not matter in the end, but why nit take a bit more time to show that you care as much as someone else with no current ties to your company?
     
  39. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    Put it this way — the suit is the carrot. Pull out the stick if you need to
     
  40. Pharm

    Pharm Right Handed
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    Pretty sure we do scrum, I've seem it around when pulling tickets
     
  41. THF

    THF BITE THE NUTS, THUMB IN THE ASS!
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    The thread reminded me to watch some old episodes of Silicon Valley.

    Just fucking genius.
     
  42. InZahnWeTrust

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    Sorry I’m late. I know that we’ve been running laps in here around how we are going to take our vendors to the mat to deliver against our stretch goals, but can I get the reader’s digest version?
     
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  43. Boo MFer!

    Boo MFer! No longer a cog in some powerhouse machine
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    Clean bracelets, IMO.
     
  44. Doc Louis

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    The conjoined triangles of success is a viable business model
     
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  45. Where Eagles Dare

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    I just laugh repeatedly when I see my companies stretch budget.

    Here's our budget that we never fucking hit but let's throw out this absurd stretch budget cause whatever YOLO
     
  46. Doc Louis

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    I hate how mine constantly changes the target that we should be hitting every day in sales. It's an arbitrary number they assigned and they update it daily, and never can hit it no matter how good sales are doing.
     
  47. HuskerInMiami

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    They need you to put it in a way they can take credit for your success. Just put together a bogus outline and give it to them.
     
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  48. HuskerInMiami

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    Yes
     
  49. BayouMafia

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    I view absurd stretch budgets as a sign of immature leadership. I understand the idea, but it forces people to take immediate measures instead of putting proper sustainable processes in place.

    Along the same vein, a few years ago one of our logistics guys asked me if it was possible to make delivery times 10 minutes earlier to "fool" his drivers into not taking delays. When I refused he tried to take it to his upper leadership and got laughed out of the room.
     
  50. Marbles

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    My supervisor didn’t respond well when I asked him why his numbers didn’t match up to what he told me they were last year.