I have had a new director for the last year and he used this language all of the time. He dressed and sounded as if he was from the 80s. he was "Let go" last week because the MD liked his rhetoric, but finally realised he didn't actually do anything! I am assuming you jest when you say you do not know what they mean, but if not I'm happy to enlighten you. I may add a few of his own.
The best meeting I've ever been to was when a colleague made up a whole load of "Buzz-word-Bingo" cards, with random selections of all the bull-shit phrases that our Commander used to come out with. All the guys had one of these cards apart from the Commander.......... The phrases were all flowing quite well, and people were steadily marking off their cards.......... And then the bull shitter came out with "over-arching" and "under-pinning" in the same sentence......... and a mate of mine jumped up and shouted HOUSE!!!! at the top of his voice :biggrin: You probably had to be there. We'd been at sea for a long time, and were in a war-zone....
A friend of mine who works for one of my firm's customers once explained to me that she attends meetings and sometimes makes up a completely spurious "buzz-word" to include in the meeting. One example was "open-cupboard politics" plus there was another one, something like "ironing board snake" or something like that. She then rewards herself with chocolate every time she hears the made-up phrase outside of the meeting she first used it in. She's a grand girl, you just gotta love her for that. Wicked sense of humour :biggrin:
I try not to listen to MPs when they are making speeches. My ears feel like they are getting all clagged up and I'm sure it causes a fungal infection.
