AIBU to ask if someone can translate this word salad into English?

whackamole666 · 2025-07-19T20:04:24+00:00

Oh and making the guy resign seems a bit overkill. What happened to the woman?

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whackamole666 · 30/07/2025 22:06

Doingtheboxerbeat · 30/07/2025 11:05

This is magnificent 🤣.

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Actually, this makes sense 😂

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 30/07/2025 11:05

thinklagoon · 30/07/2025 08:53

New slimmer Workflow Software™️, with twice the absorbency rate of Baffling Terminology®️, for those times of the month you need to streamline your processes.

This is magnificent 🤣.

thinklagoon · 30/07/2025 08:53

New slimmer Workflow Software™️, with twice the absorbency rate of Baffling Terminology®️, for those times of the month you need to streamline your processes.

HotCrossBunplease · 30/07/2025 08:03

chaosmaker · 30/07/2025 01:10

@HotCrossBunplease who cares if men are baffled by tampon ads. They don't need em. Also lillets are never advertised and are far superior anyway.

That’s my point- who cares if people who don’t need workflow software are baffled by workflow software terminology?

Doingtheboxerbeat · 30/07/2025 03:28

This thread is hilarious fascinating . i too hate language /terminology that belongs in small print, legalese, political speak and TV shows like Succession, Billions etc that specialise putting together words , in a sentence that absolutely won't make sense to just regular people or people like me who did poorly in school .

Saying that, I hate it when people accuse me of using big words, when realistically they just don't know what that word means, and would rather take the piss out of me, rather than just ask.

DiscoBeat · 30/07/2025 02:34

Auroraloves · 19/07/2025 21:14

Nope

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Me neither. I've never heard that expression!

chaosmaker · 30/07/2025 01:10

@HotCrossBunplease who cares if men are baffled by tampon ads. They don't need em. Also lillets are never advertised and are far superior anyway.

jcyclops · 28/07/2025 17:11

Both Astronomer employees have resigned. Apparently they were embarrassed about being caught watching Coldplay. ;)

HotCrossBunplease · 28/07/2025 15:54

Game0fCrones · 28/07/2025 12:18

This is all very interesting. Ive worked in QA for 40 years in telecoms (North American company) and bio-tech (International Group) and never heard of it.

is this managing what we used to call processes and procedures back in the day?

For the last couple of years, Ive been baffled by an advert which keeps being played on Times Radio for Service Now. Couldn't for the life of me work out what it was they were actually selling. Well bugger me if its not workflow software! (Just Googled).

I think the problem is the baffling, opaque language around it. Great if you're already in the know but utterly confusing if you're not.

I imagine many men feel the same about ads for tampons!

Game0fCrones · 28/07/2025 12:18

This is all very interesting. Ive worked in QA for 40 years in telecoms (North American company) and bio-tech (International Group) and never heard of it.

is this managing what we used to call processes and procedures back in the day?

For the last couple of years, Ive been baffled by an advert which keeps being played on Times Radio for Service Now. Couldn't for the life of me work out what it was they were actually selling. Well bugger me if its not workflow software! (Just Googled).

I think the problem is the baffling, opaque language around it. Great if you're already in the know but utterly confusing if you're not.

TooBored1 · 23/07/2025 19:06

chaosmaker · 19/07/2025 23:00

It's rubbish and we should all boycott it

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I am aware of the issues around AI but the OP would have found their answer in a flash.

m00rfarm · 21/07/2025 17:06

roclalalflg · 19/07/2025 21:36

I think the OP was just trying to deride something they doesn't understand by calling it word salad

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this

Somnambule · 21/07/2025 17:04

Yes, a fair bit of scorn on both sides!

Bruisername · 21/07/2025 16:49

Agreed

i I think a lot of the reaction was how the OP was worded tbh

Somnambule · 21/07/2025 16:41

Bruisername · 21/07/2025 15:57

It’s been around as a term for a long time but it’s only really relevant to those managing it.

i can’t think of another term that could be used to cover it

Yes fair enough, I realise it's a concept that can be applied to pretty much any job. I was just trying to point out that there are many of us who've never worked in a corporate/business environment or in management roles, so won't use specific workplace vocabulary (can't think of a better term) or be familiar with many of these concepts.

Bruisername · 21/07/2025 15:57

It’s been around as a term for a long time but it’s only really relevant to those managing it.

i can’t think of another term that could be used to cover it

Somnambule · 21/07/2025 15:45

Bruisername · 21/07/2025 15:35

Workflow is just the order you do work. It’s not a techy term. A workflow could be a holiday booking system for example. You enter your dates - you manager sees and makes sure it doesn’t clash etc and then they approve and you get a message saying approved. That’s a simple workflow where most organisations will have automated it

the more complex the processes the more necessary automation is

It is jargon though. I've worked for 30 years in a few different industries/professions and have never heard of it before today.

Bruisername · 21/07/2025 15:35

Workflow is just the order you do work. It’s not a techy term. A workflow could be a holiday booking system for example. You enter your dates - you manager sees and makes sure it doesn’t clash etc and then they approve and you get a message saying approved. That’s a simple workflow where most organisations will have automated it

the more complex the processes the more necessary automation is

Somnambule · 21/07/2025 15:04

GRex · 19/07/2025 22:35

It sets up links between data in disparate systems to enable processes to access, use and add or edit that data, while auditing who did what. Usually you would have a DevOps team need to set up specific links, and middleware map the data; this tool gives more flexibility by automating a lot of that. Systems and even other workflow systems will still operate within each function, but this manages higher level sharing (within rules) across many systems. So simplistically- they create software, but that software helps you access other systems (or rather, the contextualised data within them).

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See, people keep giving explanations like this as if they've clarified things but they haven't, I can't make any sense of this response or others. I understand the individual words but not what they mean when you put them all together.

There are many people whose work involves limited contact with the sort of technologies being discussed here - I'm mostly outside doing things and speaking to people face the face, "workflow" is a new phrase (and completely alien concept) to me.

KnitFastDieWarm · 21/07/2025 15:03

CranfordScones · 19/07/2025 22:19

Obviously it's a technological paradigm that implements automated and systematised orchestration of transformative process complexity management.

Don't really see why it needs explaining.

Judith Butler, is that you? 😀

KnitFastDieWarm · 21/07/2025 15:00

RavenLaw · 19/07/2025 22:09

The software the company develops provides the technology to manage workflow. It's not that difficult to work out.

The problem is that I don't understand that either 😂

Needless to say, I do not work in an area that has to have technology to manage workflow, and I'm not entirely sure what "workflow" actually is.

workflow is just the order you work through your tasks in. So, when you make a to do list and tick things off as you finish them, you’re creating and using a workflow management system.

Obviously a huge organisation with lots of people doing lots of different tasks need a bit more structure, hence software, but the basic principle is the same.

HotCrossBunplease · 21/07/2025 14:56

TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin · 21/07/2025 10:37

What patients? I never said I have patients 😵‍💫

Yes, no workflow management software necessary. Easier and far cheaper to just DIY it. Takes no time.

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So who are the people who are being booked in? You charge a fee for doing something to them, it would appear?

TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin · 21/07/2025 10:37

EarthwormJem · 20/07/2025 22:31

Does nobody have to review the patient records before an appointment, or update them afterwards?

It does sound as though your practice has a workflow (I mean, it has to) but perhaps doesnt use workflow management software and instead everything is done manually in different software.

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What patients? I never said I have patients 😵‍💫

Yes, no workflow management software necessary. Easier and far cheaper to just DIY it. Takes no time.

EarthwormJem · 20/07/2025 22:31

TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin · 20/07/2025 08:26

In my case, my boss sorts out the booking of people in using Numbers. I invoice her and make my invoices in Sheets. That’s it. No other screens required for my job. She uses Xero but I do not.

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Does nobody have to review the patient records before an appointment, or update them afterwards?

It does sound as though your practice has a workflow (I mean, it has to) but perhaps doesnt use workflow management software and instead everything is done manually in different software.

eurochick · 20/07/2025 19:21

Mukey · 19/07/2025 22:03

Why would you think every job would involve using that? I’m a dental hygienist and never have. Is this the assumption again that most jobs are office based?

I’ve been office- based my entire career and have never used it.