The latest corporate bullshit term I've noticed starting to increase

[StealthPolarBear]

A year ago people used to want meeting 'minutes' or 'notes' .
As of about six months ago I started to hear the term 'meeting read out' and it's on the increase.

What fresh hell is this? Not heard that one yet........ give it time

Read as red or reed?

I've probably only seen it written but had assumed reed

Not heard that one yet either.

But 'meeting' appears to be on its way out in some circles. Now it's a 'meet'. (And this was before Google meets started to be a thing). We have residents' meets, etc. in my flats. Run by a young, very try hard housing assistant who does absolutely nothing useful. Always sounds wrong to me.

Ah so to be truly hip it will be a meet read out

I'm going to create my own and see how quickly I can get it in general circulation

A read out is a Civil Service term. Definitely been around for at least ten years.

Staffer and presser seem to be coming up more and more often too. Not keen.

Yes I keep noticing presser on here. Really hate it.ah now technically I am civil service but fairly new ish to it. So it must have filtered in.

Never heard it.

But I think presser is commonly used by people who work in press and media.

Ugh.
I left the corporate world just about when low hanging fruit were being picked. Don't miss that elevator pitch at ALL, no need to push envelopes, park ideas or scrum nowadays.

In my company, a read out is when you have a meeting then you have another meeting to tell other people about it

It's been said a while in my civil service dept though it was the first time I'd heard the term until I'd started there.

I work in the press and media and said to DH only today “when did we start calling them pressers?!” He also is a journalist and said journalists have been calling them that for ages, but I have been going to press conferences since 1997 and never heard them called pressers! To be fair the press conferences I go to are pretty boring.

The people I see using 'presser' on here are the ones who want people to think they're really in the know about what's going on. It feels pretentious to me.

Do you all have to touch base too? I know that's not new but it seems to be having a resurgence in popularity lately.

@dollydarling

Staffer and presser seem to be coming up more and more often too. Not keen.

Never heard the term presser, but I thought staffer was a common Americanism.

Also outcomes from meetings increasingly referred to as “ takeaways “!

“ So what were the main takeaways from that , John?”

Yea definitely a civil service thing! Sorry to anyone it annoys. Have used that for the 20 years I've worked there.

Maybe we're infiltrating the private sector

I’m Civil Service and at our place it’s all “sighted” - eg has Rob been sighted on the paper to go to Board, or “in this space” - used instead of talking about a topic, so, we need to bring Steph into this space to look at the Comms aspect. Ugh - such wanky talk.

I’m going to punch the next person who says “get it over the line”

Awk that better not take off

I hear ‘piece’ a lot - can you take on the risk ‘piece?

Yes also bloody space @SweatyBetty20

I was asked by my manager to "signpost him" (prick!!) to where the document was that I was talking about.

I sent him this.

I'm socialising a lot of my work lately. It's obviously not subject to lockdown rules like the rest of us then.