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BBC News Article
Blue-sky thinking: Idealistic or visionary ideas - not always with practical application
Get our ducks in a row: Have arrangements efficiently ordered
Brain dump: To tell everything you know about a particular topic
Think outside the box: Don't limit your thinking to within your job description; be creative
Joined-up thinking: Taking into account how things affect each other - not looking at something in isolation
Drilling down: Getting more detail about a particular issue
Push the envelope:Improve performance by going beyond commonly accepted boundaries
The helicopter view: An overview
Low-hanging fruit: The easiest targets
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Anyone recognise any of these or have any better ones? Perhaps you have bosses using them a lot or worse yet, you use them too.
Blue-sky thinking: Idealistic or visionary ideas - not always with practical application
Get our ducks in a row: Have arrangements efficiently ordered
Brain dump: To tell everything you know about a particular topic
Think outside the box: Don't limit your thinking to within your job description; be creative
Joined-up thinking: Taking into account how things affect each other - not looking at something in isolation
Drilling down: Getting more detail about a particular issue
Push the envelope:Improve performance by going beyond commonly accepted boundaries
The helicopter view: An overview
Low-hanging fruit: The easiest targets
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Anyone recognise any of these or have any better ones? Perhaps you have bosses using them a lot or worse yet, you use them too.
that`s entirely fair m`man. pop em once for me while you`re at it!
If I hear the phrase "Work smarter, not harder" one more time, I will be forced to chin whomsoever utters it.
"we appreciate your sense of humour and respect the insane efficiency with which you plough through the work each day, bringing us entirely back on schedule" somehow came out as "temps aren`t allowed to use external email, i`m afraid we have to let you go"
double standard mofos, it was the weakest excuse i`ve ever heard. the very nature of being a temp means that a job can finish at any time, there`s no need to create a drama around it.. even if i DID mention it was an entirely soul destroying job in a private email that they apparently monitored.
anyways, here are some:
"think-tank" - 2 supervisors go to the pub
"looking at the big picture, but not SEEING it" - "i have a pointless idea/scheme/rule to implement, and only i think it`s a good idea"
"brainstorming" - 2 supervisors go to the pub
"upping professional perception" - "i`ve just been slightly promoted and wish to demonstrate how invaluable i am by proposing 300 pedantic changes to the dress code, starting with the colour of our clipboards..."
and my favourite
"all our cogs need to turn in the same direction"
erm.... perhaps a moment should be taken to ponder the actual mechanics of that one :D
as you may gather, i`ve worked with some complete tools in my time. my latest one is as follows: i`m lecturing part time, teaching part of my old degree, was told to get a permit for the car park.... so i bought a permit for the car park. the car park is huge, with only about 4 spaces painted in the middle of a huge area, so everyone parks on the ends of rows where there`s acres of room.... got back to find a parking ticket for not being in a designated bay. jobsworth little assclown, one day i`ll see him patrolling and inform him how asanine his existence is.
rage is good.
double standard mofos, it was the weakest excuse i`ve ever heard. the very nature of being a temp means that a job can finish at any time, there`s no need to create a drama around it.. even if i DID mention it was an entirely soul destroying job in a private email that they apparently monitored.
anyways, here are some:
"think-tank" - 2 supervisors go to the pub
"looking at the big picture, but not SEEING it" - "i have a pointless idea/scheme/rule to implement, and only i think it`s a good idea"
"brainstorming" - 2 supervisors go to the pub
"upping professional perception" - "i`ve just been slightly promoted and wish to demonstrate how invaluable i am by proposing 300 pedantic changes to the dress code, starting with the colour of our clipboards..."
and my favourite
"all our cogs need to turn in the same direction"
erm.... perhaps a moment should be taken to ponder the actual mechanics of that one :D
as you may gather, i`ve worked with some complete tools in my time. my latest one is as follows: i`m lecturing part time, teaching part of my old degree, was told to get a permit for the car park.... so i bought a permit for the car park. the car park is huge, with only about 4 spaces painted in the middle of a huge area, so everyone parks on the ends of rows where there`s acres of room.... got back to find a parking ticket for not being in a designated bay. jobsworth little assclown, one day i`ll see him patrolling and inform him how asanine his existence is.
rage is good.
Reorganising is another :(
There seem to be quite a few for sacking people :S down-sizing another?
How about 'streamlining' ... aka sacking people ...
The only one I recognise is "drilling down" and we only use that in the office here as if you need to get more information on a transaction in accounting software you have to "drill down" to get the info you need.
I think people who use it are just trying to make themselves look clever but in effect what they're doing is making themselves look stupid.
I think people who use it are just trying to make themselves look clever but in effect what they're doing is making themselves look stupid.
BBC News Article
Blue-sky thinking: Idealistic or visionary ideas - not always with practical application
Get our ducks in a row: Have arrangements efficiently ordered
Brain dump: To tell everything you know about a particular topic
Think outside the box: Don't limit your thinking to within your job description; be creative
Joined-up thinking: Taking into account how things affect each other - not looking at something in isolation
Drilling down: Getting more detail about a particular issue
Push the envelope:Improve performance by going beyond commonly accepted boundaries
The helicopter view: An overview
Low-hanging fruit: The easiest targets
----
Anyone recognise any of these or have any better ones? Perhaps you have bosses using them a lot or worse yet, you use them too.
Blue-sky thinking: Idealistic or visionary ideas - not always with practical application
Get our ducks in a row: Have arrangements efficiently ordered
Brain dump: To tell everything you know about a particular topic
Think outside the box: Don't limit your thinking to within your job description; be creative
Joined-up thinking: Taking into account how things affect each other - not looking at something in isolation
Drilling down: Getting more detail about a particular issue
Push the envelope:Improve performance by going beyond commonly accepted boundaries
The helicopter view: An overview
Low-hanging fruit: The easiest targets
----
Anyone recognise any of these or have any better ones? Perhaps you have bosses using them a lot or worse yet, you use them too.