Let’s have a lunch and learn!

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    2 个月前

    People saying something needs to be flushed out when they really want it fleshed out.

    • Deebster@infosec.pub
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      2 个月前

      I suppose it could be used in the sense of a dog flushing out game for the hunters - to make something hidden visible so it can be dealt with.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      2 个月前

      Lmao!

      I’d ask if they want me to get rid of it.

      I also have a colleague who refers to Apple computers as MAC, and has at least once asked for MAC addresses of some devices when what she meant was IP addresses last associated with the devices.

    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 个月前

      I used to have a coworker who would also say things like “I’ll ping you after the meeting” and I’d chuckle because it sounded so stupid.

      One day he asked me why I was smirking and I lied and told him “You know what ‘pinging’ means, right? It’s the act of putting a metal rod in your urethra and tapping it with a tuning fork.”

      He NEVER said it again.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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        2 个月前

        I don’t remember what it was exactly but someone said something along the lines of “we’ll need to massage it a bit as we roll it out” regarding a new system being implemented.

        • jade52@lemmy.ca
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          2 个月前

          Oh god I’ve heard that one many times before as well. It’s like adult baby talk

  • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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    2 个月前

    I don’t mind lunch and learns. I get overtime for that, AND they buy me lunch. I’m either stuck near the office for an unproductive hour I don’t get paid for, or at my desk working on the same shit I was earlier for an extra hour.

    But all the bullshit buzzwords attempting to paint employees standing up for themselves as bad things are obnoxious as hell: quiet quitting and the like

    • JPSound@lemmy.world
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      2 个月前

      I’ve heard “human capital” before. The soulless fucks make others a commodity by stripping the mere mention of their existance of its humanity.

  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
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    2 个月前

    The Q3 numbers have a life of their own. Growing, shrinking, zig zagging all over the place. Pushing needles, pulling levers. And fyi, the roi is tbd. high five synergy!

  • Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 个月前

    The whole “we’re a family” motto. I never understood why this is a thing and why it should be a thing. There is no job that I’ve ever been comfortable getting that attached to.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    2 个月前

    I had one retail manager who constantly kept using “moving forward” for everything. It was so freaking grating!

    I hate that I’ve learned to censor myself around these soulless void-skulls by replacing “problem” with “challenge.” No, I don’t “solve problems”, because to acknowledge something as a problem is negativity we just don’t need here at Emperor Clothing Inc! I “tackle challenges”!

    It’s so freaking goofy and they just eat it up. Everything needs some sort of business-positive spin or they lose their minds and think you’re not being a “team player.”

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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      2 个月前

      I’ve got a manager that’s replaced problem with “opportunity to succeed”. Well, I’ve got 99 opportunities to succeed I guess.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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      2 个月前

      Seeing opportunities everywhere. The same underlying mechanism is at work here as with challenge: Let’s replace the word for this bad thing with a different word that means something similar but positive. And then it looks like something good! I am very smart

  • yool_ooloo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 个月前

    ‘contextual knowledge’

    this gem was put forward in all seriousness when the data didn’t support the claims in the report: “it’s not in the numbers, but we have a pretty good sense that this is true”

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 个月前

    “Department / Corporate Retreat”

    As in, “we’re holding our annual corporate retreat next Wednesday! It’ll be offsite, you’re all required to be there, and we’ll be spending the day having a 6 hour meeting about absolutely nothing, just like we do every year. But dont worry, when we’re done we’ll play a game no one wants to play, or do a craft no one wants to do, but everyone will pretend they enjoy it because if they don’t, they’re not ‘team players.’”

    This year, our day-long-nothing-meeting was about how management is working to secure everyone’s jobs despite budget cuts, and we have nothing to worry about. Then we took a personality quiz that said I was a character from Stranger Things. Then the next day, they told me I’m getting laid off and have 3 months left at the company.

    Fucking RETREATS are so relaxing.