Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Work-Wank-Speak

I was thinking that that email below is actually pretty mellowly worded compared to typical Brentis WORK-WANK-SPEAK.
Brentis will use an average of say 3 or 4 of these phrases/words in every work convo I have the joy of holding with him;

"of that specific nature"
(Specific is like Brent's 'the'. Pretty much can be chucked in anywhere)
"general rule of thumb"
"As a casual employee..."
"From a customer services standpoint"
"Lends itself too..."
"A heads up..."
"Over-arching guidelines"
"The standard texts" - whaaa??
"student- friendly" or "from the perspective of a prospective student"
"Diarise" - okay I find this a particularly offensive word. WTF. Diary is a noun yeah?. To 'diarise' something however does not made sense and is the most wanky sounding thing to say ever. Cringe. Raisin.
"Touch base" Actually this one is preetty bad too. It's a guaranteed if he bumps into me at work and hasn't seen me in the last 24 hours. "we really need to touch base sometime today Olivia" .
Time for a 20 minute seminar.
Just.Let. Me. Do. The. Filing. Do not need to 'touch base' re new fire alarm procedures or to update my emergency details for the millionth time or to be informed of new community course or anything else that is completely irrelevant due to the fact that all I really do is photocopy/file/register/sometimes answer the phone.

A few other notable mentions, not quite at the same level of cringe;
"procedure" "consistant" (as below) "Proactive" "Hands- on" "collation of data"
"SYNERGISE"
"Logistics" alllways the logistics of ze issue.

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