50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

[juanster]

working at a car rental company, whenevr a customer come sin to pick up a car, and we ask them for their driver's license and they say:
"oh i need one of those?" or "i think i still have one of those" or yeah taht s a good idea no?"
just not funny nto funny at all.. same way as for waitresses or waiters, when young guys/girls come in and says omething liek hey.."ask her for id" or "id her or somehting" trying to make the friend feel young or osmehting i stilld ont get it...

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

touch base




drives me nuts.

 

[jsgreen]

Every time I take a call from a vendor, I can GUARANTEE they will say "I just wanted to touch base with you...."
I want to hang up right then.

Ha! I'm a vendor and have tried hard not to use the "touch base" phrase

 

[Slip]

... i stilld ont get it...

Yeah, likewise. What was the point you were trying to make, it went right over my head.

 

[juanster]

Yeah, likewise. What was the point you were trying to make, it went right over my head.

ahha, when young peopel ask the waiter or waitress a jokkingly/flirty maner to ID one of the group..

 

[gusapple]

Still is used by Disney to discribe their Graphic Designers/artistic people.

Actually, it means the same thing it did 50 years ago in the beginning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Imagineering

 

[synth3tik]

I wish I would have known about getting laid off before hand so I could have punched the SoB who would come to my office, offload all his work on me and say:

"C'mon, Take one for the team"

No jerk ass I have taken enough for the team, and frankly it is not the team it's your lazy ass.

Plus it sounds like I am about to be gang raped.

And yes, said SoB was my manager.