conclusive proof that managers are nobs. even the BBC says so.

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3686 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
Submitted by ftony on 17 June, 2008 - 08:24.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm

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Management speak - don't you just hate it? Emphatically yes, judging by readers' responses to writer Lucy Kellaway's campaign against office jargon. Here, we list 50 of the best, worst examples.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 6899 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
17 June, 2008 - 09:21

"Hey editor, get this - my new feature is gonna be an attack against the way management speak."

"Oh shi- can you do that? That is a bit edgy even for the bbc?"

"Dilbert was doing it in 1989, I think the joke is just about to ripen"

"Hopefully some communist who missed every episode of the office, it crowd, etc will post it to their website"

"I dont see who else would read it"

thanks

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3686 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
17 June, 2008 - 09:59

hand what-EVER

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10497 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
17 June, 2008 - 12:15

Yeah fuck up Weeler, nothing wrong with having a laugh at management jargon.

I got loads of this shit when I worked for Amazon
Even worse was, we had to spell everything with a Z because yanks are thick - organization, realize etc etc

888 ""I think I'm having an overdose and so's my wife""
Posts: 461 Joined: 30-09-03 Location: Seattle
17 June, 2008 - 20:04
xConorx wrote:
Yeah fuck up Weeler, nothing wrong with having a laugh at management jargon.

I got loads of this shit when I worked for Amazon
Even worse was, we had to spell everything with a Z because yanks are thick - organization, realize etc etc

That's actually the correct spelling in english english as well.

Rob Ray "Used to be Saii"
Posts: 3070 Joined: 06-11-03 Location: England
17 June, 2008 - 20:10

When will you Americanz learn?

888 ""I think I'm having an overdose and so's my wife""
Posts: 461 Joined: 30-09-03 Location: Seattle
17 June, 2008 - 20:42

I'm not American, but look it up in one of those pedantic style guides on English usage.

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 9981 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
17 June, 2008 - 21:21

Hmm, I don't actually mind 'low hanging fruit' too much - it's used a lot in techie circles and I never heard a management say it.

georgestapleton "an indistinguishable part of a nationalist front sticking up for Irish independence"
Posts: 1464 Joined: 04-08-05 Location: Dublin, Ireland
19 June, 2008 - 15:28
888 wrote:
I'm not American, but look it up in one of those pedantic style guides on English usage.

Like the OED

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10497 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
19 June, 2008 - 15:38

ok i stand corrected on the 'ise' thing - still, we were specifically trained to use Z, despite majority of british publications using 's'.