Are you familiar with the term " wash up" discussion?

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Just that really
Heard it for the first time yesterday.

I used to work for PwC in London and it was very much used there so I would say not regional at all!

I first heard it about 4 years ago. It was used every day for months then something just as irritating became the new office shite phrase.

Horrible expression imo . What is wrong with debriefing or follow up. Wash up sounds minging like washing dishes . Or when Americans say Wash up for dinner . Well the Waltons did anyways .
How can it be modern when dishwashers are the most modern way to clean dishes . Hope I never hear it .

Ahh! When I heard that song by Alisha Dixon that was out years ago , I thought that she meant he didn’t wash up the dishes. ( He doesn’t wash up , doesn’t brush up etc) Did she mean something else ?
I’ve only ever heard it in relation to washing up dishes.

Yes, I've heard it. And so?

Yes a wash up at work is where we regroup to look at information collected and generally make a decision.

Im a civil servant (not in project management). We use wash up discussion to mean the meeting at the end of a recruitment exercise where the three panel members meet to discuss the candidates and agree the final outcome.

A very long time ago I worked for an organisation that managed disasters at sea and we would hold these huge exercises. The wash up would come after the exercise to see what worked well and what we would need to do better if the real thing happened. I worked with a lot of ex-navy types so assumed that's where it came from.

Yes in Public sector - the meeting at the end of a day of interviews.
I haven't heard it much outside that but if someone said "wash up" at the end of a project or event or something, I would take it to mean a sort of debrief /meeting of what went well or didn't.

Yes.

Yes. Very common in industry. I always understood it to have originated from a conversation you might have when washing hands after a task. And there would be others doing the same who were part of the task. And you would talk over the main points of the experience. Good and bad. A natural discussion together. Which has now progressed to the corporate workplace.
In my experience its an opportunity for everyone to chip in on their thoughts - to get a wide input and dicussion. It applies to office based tasks, projects, audits and inspections. Very common at the end of a day where an emergency response has been rehearsed which involve other organisations such as the emergency services and local government etc.

Maybe it originates from the military?

EDIT to rewrite my poorly expressed thoughts. Not sure it was worth the bother ☹️

@Willowkinsapologies I have cross posted.

Yes, it’s used in my workplace. Don’t like it myself.

@NotInMyyName don't be silly!
Thanks for posting!

Wash up? As in, do the dishes? Of course, what a strange question!!!!

Yep. It’s the “meeting to have after the meeting where things were decided, to figure out what was actually decided and whether you’re going to do them or not” meeting. Lovely.

What fresh hell is this?

It’s been used in the military for many years . Post evolution review

Commonly used in conjunction with;

”Mowing the lawn”
”Decreasing the blast radius”
and…
”Boiling the ocean”

Many other corporate wankerisms are available.

No, if someone at work asked me to 'wash up' I'd tell them to wash their own dirty cups.

It was a military term originally for the meeting held after an exercise to discuss what went right and also what went wrong.

I guess this is what you'd call a drip feed but it was used by a relative when talking about a conversation with hospital staff about their partner.
Seems so out of place

No I’ve never heard it.

Is that how the relative described it themselves or were they repeating what the hospital staff called it?

The relative used the term to describe their interaction with staff.

I wonder if we work at the same place as this is the only context I’ve ever heard it in too.